We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler and Fortinet FortiADC based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I found that the GUI was very easy to to navigate. If you were looking for something, it was fairly easy to find. There's a lot of third-party documentation and information available online as well."
"I like the monitoring ability as it enables me to identify when an internal (load-balanced) resource is having issues before it becomes a problem in production."
"The NetScaler appliance has provided a lot of customers with greater high availability for their enterprise applications within a single site and across multiple locations."
"The program is easy to install and to set up."
"I find all of it to be valuable, because of the flexibility that is built into this product."
"Citrix Netscaler makes it easy to provide services to end users, offering better visibility into user sessions compared to VMware. However, instability in network or machine can cause headaches as it's hard to pinpoint issues. SSL offload feature enhances security posture by providing secure connectivity between end users and backend systems. We use additional Azure remote security solutions for comprehensive protection."
"High availability, performance, and security are the main pillars. It enhances the security for accessing the applications."
"The MAS integration for HDX Insight has provided teams with significant visibility into network performance of the user's connection."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"From a technical perspective, it is the most scalable device from Fortinet."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"The solution could be more secure."
"Currently, it is not easy to use the configuration capabilities of the product."
"Manageability and adaptability can also be challenging for end customers."
"Quality assurance could improve by ironing out security vulnerabilities before releasing upgrades."
"It does not have a sandbox cloud service and antivirus. It should have on-prem or cloud sandboxing and antivirus."
"They can improve the scalability and the multi-tenancy feature. We recently tried to configure an authentication, and we ran into some issues while using the web-based GUI. It was very slow when you log in with your credentials in the web-based GUI. Each time we clicked on the menu, it tried to do the authentication. It works properly in the console."
"I would like to see more integration for single sign-on."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the user interface because sometimes it can be complicated."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"Fortinet FortiADC should include an advanced-level SD-WAN."
"Fortinet has some drawbacks, and it can be a bit challenging to scale."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"Because it is so generic, the documentation requires special attention. A person who has not worked on Fortinet FortiADC or a similar product will struggle to understand what the document is trying to say. The documentation could be more specific, and more detailed."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews while Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews. Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8. 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 Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy, Loadbalancer.org and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Kemp LoadMaster, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy. See our Citrix NetScaler vs. Fortinet FortiADC report.
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