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Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall vs NGINX Plus comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Ivanti Virtual Web Applicat...
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
17th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (43rd)
NGINX Plus
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
5th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the mindshare of Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NGINX Plus is 8.6%, down from 9.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer890211 - PeerSpot reviewer
Good feature set and is simple to deploy
In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else. We sort of stopped deploying them because of that. There are additional costs to the standard licensing. There are bandwidth prices. The feature set is quite good. We've been told to stop using them because of the price. If they can do something to address that I believe it would be better. On the latest version they've got a community edition, which is quite a good bandwidth, but in essence, it's to address the entry-level price. When you get to 10 gig bandwidth, it's way too expensive.
Ritesh-Bakhru - PeerSpot reviewer
Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation
NGINX cannot be a replacement for your traditional load balancer with what we use in the network today. However, with applications going toward microservices, NGINX is definitely a way forward. F5 has many traditional load balancing features, so they still need to bring some of those features to NGINX. NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5. I think F5 is trying to implement those features in NGINX so they can improve the balancing on NGINX, but I think that will take some time. With the traditional F5 set up, the same OS can do load balancing, firewalls, and even policy enforcement. If we are able to bring some of those capabilities to NGINX, I think it would become a versatile solution and usage would definitely increase.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
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"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
 

Cons

"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"The scalability could be improved."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There's an open-source version of NGINX that is free."
"​NGINX Plus is worth it, if you need it. If you do not need the features or support, the free and open source package is more than capable. ​"
"I use the solution's community edition which is free of cost."
"NGINX Plus is an open-source solution with limited additional features. When you try to get additional features in the solution, then you need to pay an extra amount to NGINX Plus."
"The list price of NGINX Plus is close to $5,500."
"HAProxy is cheaper than NGINX."
"The cost is reasonable."
"I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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Which is better - IIS or NGINX Plus?
IIS is a flexible, secure, and manageable web server to host anything on the web. IIS’s scalable and open architecture can handle the most demanding tasks. From media streaming to web applications,...
What do you like most about NGINX Plus?
It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX Plus?
NGINX is not cost-effective, especially for few applications, and is considered higher-priced.
 

Also Known As

Pulse vWAF, Pulse Virtual Traffic Manager
NGINX
 

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Sample Customers

Gilt Groupe
Locaweb, AppNexus, Wix, Reliam, Montana Interactive, MuleSoft, Warpwire, Discovery Education, InkaBinka, WordPress.com, Gogo, GOV.UK, NASA
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