We performed a comparison between Citrix ADC vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users give a similar rating to both solutions. Each solution has an easy deployment, similar opinions on pricing, and good technical support. However, they differ in their strengths and weaknesses in terms of features.
"I like app flows and custom flows. They integrate with multiple flows."
"One of the most beneficial features for application delivery is its integration with Citrix Storefront, facilitating user logins and ensuring continuity during data center outages."
"Unified Gateway allows me to provide secure external access to applications for suppliers and customers while requiring Multi-Factor Authentication."
"For desktop application management, I recommend the NetScaler edition. This product is like a Swiss army knife. Citrix NetScaler ADC supports the education front-end."
"Its customer support service is good."
"Load Balancing and SSL offloading are key features."
"One of its most valuable features is fundamental load balancing, supporting both basic load balancing and database teams."
"It is the best product out there."
"It does an excellent job of load balancing."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature is WAF."
"It has a filter available, although we are not currently using it because it is not part of our requirements. But it is a good option and when it becomes part of our requirements we will definitely use it."
"I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway are the policies, the data store they are using, and the cloud platform it operates on."
"This is a SaaS product, so it is always up to date."
"The solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs."
"The tool needs to add a feature where we can access the network policy access manager."
"I would like to see multifactor authentication added to this solution to improve the security."
"I feel that Citrix NetScaler's customer support needs to improve."
"Citrix should offer a demo or free-trial version of NetScaler. Several other vendors do, but Citrix does not. Pricing should also be more readily available."
"I would like to see more integration for single sign-on."
"Overall the price of Citrix ADC could be more competitive."
"Currently, it is not easy to use the configuration capabilities of the product."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The support provided for the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement, especially when it comes to the response time from the support team."
"The configuration is very specific right now and needs to be much more flexible."
"It does not have the flexibility for using public IPs in version 2."
"The tool's pricing could be improved."
"It is a bit tricky to configure. You've got to have a very specific format to configure it. They should make it a little bit easier to configure. Mapping the certificates into it isn't easy, and it could be better. Currently, you've to write a bit of automation to pull certificates directly to HTTPS."
"One of the challenges we faced was the solution does not support any other PCP protocols apart from HTTP and HTTPS."
"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."
"The product could be easier to use and implement."
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Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 4th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 38 reviews. Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Optimizing application delivery and ensuring robust network performance with its excellent stability and comprehensive load-balancing capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway writes "High stability with built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure". Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy, Loadbalancer.org and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with Azure Front Door, F5 Advanced WAF, AWS WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and HAProxy. See our Citrix NetScaler vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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