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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

NetScaler and DataMiner are solutions in the network and data management category. DataMiner holds the upper hand with its broad integration capabilities, providing superior network analytics insights.

Features: NetScaler offers valuable features like load balancing, application acceleration, and security enhancements, enhancing performance and reliability. DataMiner provides robust integration support, end-to-end network management, and dynamic data visualization, giving it a significant edge in feature offerings.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetScaler's straightforward deployment model is appreciated for stability and quick setup, coupled with reliable customer support. DataMiner, though complex at setup, offers flexible deployment with extensive documentation and customization, backed by responsive customer service. Its integration flexibility can extend deployment time.

Pricing and ROI: NetScaler offers a competitive setup cost with a promising ROI through enhanced performance and security. DataMiner involves a larger initial investment but shows a strong ROI through comprehensive integration and analytics, justifying its cost in complex environments.

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Categories and Ranking

DataMiner

Ranking in Network Management Applications

14th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetScaler

Ranking in Network Management Applications

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

107

Ranking in other categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (1st), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Network Management Applications category, the mindshare of DataMiner is 1.5%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetScaler is 1.5%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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RamPrakash Ramar

Manager, Engineering at Benchmark Broadcast Systems

Monitor broadcast systems effectively with real-time data processing and insightful feedback

The solution will monitor data in real-time and can scale out well. For instance, in a television studio, I might deal with about three hundred pieces of equipment. However, in other sites, it can handle 200 to 2500 nodes that send data every second. The system efficiently processes and analyzes data to provide insightful feedback, such as pinpointing specific equipment errors. It also offers predictive analytics based on received data, rather than just storing it.

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DEMİRHAN ÇAVUŞOĞLU

Cloud Consultant at Migros Ticaret A.Ş.

A tool for centralized management including inventory and sales tracking

Citrix ADM has the ability to implement policies to tighten security. For instance, you can restrict access to your network from outsiders or lack necessary security measures such as antivirus programs. Additionally, there's the Delivery Controller, which allows for comprehensive monitoring and management tasks such as remote restarts, maintenance, and registration. Another essential component is the Director, which provides detailed insights into sessions, including identifying session failures, connection issues, user lockouts, etc. It presents a list of problems to address, enabling you to click on them and resolve them efficiently.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is user-friendly and is readily customizable, which allows us to do control and monitoring in a single stage."

"The solution will monitor data in real-time and can scale out well."

"The most valuable feature of DataMiner is its comprehensiveness. It provides an open driver that allows you to customize and program each aspect of the system. Additionally, there are many separate modules available that can be used to enhance the system's capabilities beyond just monitoring, allowing you to manage your entire workflow. This is a valuable feature that makes troubleshooting easier and helps to optimize the use of the system."

"Data Miner allows you to take control. It has an API to talk to different products, including drivers to talk to the APIs of third-party products. You can control it from the screen."

"If you need PCI-compliance and have high security requirements, WAF is the most valuable feature. If you need to monitor your load-balancing services with complex types of monitoring, make sure everything is alright, and load balancing is important, Content Switching and Monitoring features are the keys to your needs. If you want to provide a lot of static images or data, the Caching feature works best for you."

"One of its most valuable features is fundamental load balancing, supporting both basic load balancing and database teams."

"I can turn on features without actually owning a license. I can test them out, I can use them for a while, and then I can be licensed up. That's awesome. I don't have to have a license immediately before I can start to deploy things rapidly, rapid deployment is a plus."

"The most valuable feature of Citrix ADC is its ease of use."

"Enables a Web service that offers persistent client-server connections, IP restriction, URL rewrite (such as remove "/assets/" path from client-side URL path), and cache for CSS or JS files... You can easily use the GUI to set up all these requirements on the same network device within 20-30 minutes. (If you do the same steps on CLI, it might take less time.)"

"The most valuable feature is the content switching."

"Easy, user-friendly setup with content switching and integrated caching features."

"The solution can be configured very granularly and has good control over security."

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Cons

"I am looking forward to the company continuing to improve its solution and incorporate new technologies. Specifically, I hope that they will allow their cloud database environment to host services, rather than requiring the use of on-premises digital or physical servers. The company is moving in this direction, but I am still waiting for this capability to be implemented."

"The system's complexity during installation could be reduced."

"We would like to have more products supported by the drivers because there are so many products out there. If DataMiner has not built the drivers to support them we can not control them, we can only see them based on SNMP. If more drivers are included, it won't cost us if we have new products."

"The solution could be more secure."

"Citrix should improve the documentation. It is not really clear how to set up many features to our advantage. When we setup Citrix NetScaler ADC, we have to figure it out by ourselves without a lot of documentation."

"The WAF component needs to be simplified so that it is easier to use."

"ADC from Citrix has added functionalities from other products and the usability is very difficult for someone who is used to a simpler user interface, it's a little bit of a mess to use."

"We would like the licensing model for this product to be improved, as it isn't currently very transparent. There isn't a standard package available, and each extra feature creates an additional cost."

"Citrix ADC is a complex product, and it takes time to understand these things. But the documentation is poor, and the deployment is difficult. Integration could also be better because what I find is that you cannot easily integrate the panel in the second sector. What I have found is that in the last index, there is a limitation when getting validated. Technical support could also be better."

"The product could be improved by making it easier to use and easier to implement."

"Security could be improved because then I can get rid of my Cisco firewalls. If they improve the security then I could run my security, my proxy, my firewalling and my SDN solution on one device instead of having to have multiple devices."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"DataMiner is an expensive solution and that is why many companies do not use it. Other solutions are less expensive."

"The solution's pricing is very high compared to its competitors."

"Ninety day free trial makes it easy to try out this solution."

"Price-wise, I feel that the solution is a little bit expensive."

"We are quite happy with price. It's not too high."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight or nine out of ten."

"I rate the pricing an eight out of ten since it is expensive."

"The licenses for this product are payable as a yearly subscription, and carry a high price-point. The subscription scheme is quite complicated, and costs will increase with each additional feature that is required, outside of the basic setup."

"Citrix Web App and API Protection are in the middle when we talk about pricing and licensing"

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

24%

Media Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

15%

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

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Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for DataMiner?

My profession is broadcasting as a broadcast system integrator. I run live channels 24/7 in many countries. Each broadcaster has around 300 to 400 pieces of equipment to capture the signal from the...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DataMiner?

DataMiner's pricing is high. If a client is not concerned about the budget and wants a good feature set, I would immediately recommend DataMiner. If a client needs it at a lower price, it's not pos...

What needs improvement with DataMiner?

The system's complexity during installation could be reduced. It is not easily user-installable and requires specialization. Connecting to other systems needs a dedicated driver, often developed by...

What do you like most about Citrix ADC?

The most valuable feature for us is the application firewalling in Citrix NetScaler, ensuring only valid traffic enters our environment.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Citrix ADC?

After deployment, Citrix Netscaler shifted to a subscription-based license scheme for support, which is slightly more expensive.

What needs improvement with Citrix ADC?

Citrix NetScaler is a robust product, but mastering it requires significant learning and training due to its complexity. While it could be easier to manage, it is like transitioning from driving a ...

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Citrix ADC, Citrix NetScaler VPX, NetScaler Console, NetScaler Web Application Firewall

Overview

The DataMiner NMS/OSS platform manages absolutely every aspect of your entire operational ecosystem, both on-premises and off-premises. That includes standard & legacy technology, commodity & industry-specific hardware and software, and much more. Our award-winning solution guarantees a true end-to-end integration in every single case, across any vendor and technology boundary, from service origin to destination.

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One platform for a consistent application delivery and security experience because nobody has time to learn multiple systems to manage ADC deployments. NetScaler is built with a single code base using a software-based architecture, so no matter which ADC form factor you choose — hardware, virtual machine, bare metal, or container — the behavior will be the same.

Sample Customers

Telenet

ABB Schweiz, Aer Lingus, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Amnet Technology Solutions, Aramex International, Ascenty, Atos, Autodesk

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