We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Imperva Bot Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The combination of ADC and WAN is the most valuable feature."
"F5 Big-IP Local Traffic Manager has better modular features especially LTM, which according to the clients, is very beneficial. Most of the users opt for a combination of big IP LTM and WAF which helps them to leverage application load balancing and enhance application security many-fold."
"Initial setup is easy and pretty standard."
"The solution is very easy to use and easy to understand. It's quite an intuitive system."
"I like that F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is a product that comes with valuable features, but what stands out from all features is load balancing."
"We are fond of the load balancing feature for DNS and servers."
"The most valuable feature is customization."
"It has helped a lot to protect our organization from external attacks, especially XSS or XSRF types of attacks."
"The stability of the product is good since I haven't had any problems with the solution."
"I am impressed with the product's automatic bot mechanism. It also gives us the control to create our own custom bot rules."
"Security enhancement should be more user friendly."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will be a challenge for us."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is sometimes a bit cumbersome to deal with some builds, although that's gotten significantly better over the years."
"Right now, there are a lot of products within F5's portfolio. They acquired a couple of companies like NGINX and Volterra. Some features and technologies overlapped when this acquisition occurred. They need to refine it and come up with a single, proper solution. F5 should focus more on zero trust network access (ZTNA).They should be more focused on that framework because the industry is moving towards that. Everyone is talking about SASE and zero trust."
"The pricing model has caused some frustration. My clients implemented the solution and later wanted to upgrade the features but the pricing structure was complicated. There are other solutions with better pricing models."
"The solution is scalable."
"The tool needs to include artificial intelligence and machine learning. It also needs to improve profiling."
"Sometimes, it takes a bit of time for the technical staff of the solution to get back to our company with a resolution for our problems."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Imperva Bot Management is ranked 4th in Bot Management with 2 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Imperva Bot Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Bot Management writes "A product that offers advanced bot detection capabilities and reporting features". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas Imperva Bot Management is most compared with Cloudflare, Cequence Security, AWS WAF, Akamai Bot Manager and Imperva DDoS.
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