Barracuda Load Balancer ADC vs Barracuda Web Application Firewall

Likelihood to Recommend

Barracuda is an inexpensive solution for load balancing web traffic of all kinds and works as a reverse proxy if you need one. It is efficient and has been a very stable solution. If you need extremely granular configuration for your load balancing traffic, then you may need to go with one of the bigger brands. Barracuda will more than handle regular small and medium business use and do so at a greatly reduced price point.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Best Suited for Customer Environments with O365 Setup - Would recommend it for small, medium, or even large-sized organizations. Need to make some adjustments if you have an automated email setup for some apps.

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Partner in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pros

Excellent Load Balancing.
Flexible configuration - It's very simple to configure and powerful enough to handle many more websites than just our exchange site.
Continuously updated - Barracuda makes fairly frequent updates to address issues and improve features.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Web application security.
Blocks emails that could be spam.
Blocks websites we don't people on here at the school district.

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Tony Ortiz

Database Administrator

Northside ISDEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Overall, there are no issues. It just runs.

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Shawn Umansky

Network Engineer

Saint Michael's CollegeHigher Education, 201-500 employees

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Learning curve to implement
If using SD-WAN, multiple devices required

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Director in Information Technology

Legal Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Starting Price

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Likelihood to Renew

Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 10.0

Based on 1 answer

It is a product we plan on continuing to use.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees

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Usability

Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 9.0

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It is fairly easy to learn after support helps you set it up and shows you how things work. Which they will do.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 8.3

Based on 5 answers

It did well for basic needs but would not deliver for all our services.

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Timothy Good

System Administrator

Michigan State UniversityHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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Barracuda Web Application Firewall 8.0

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The Barracuda Web Application Firewall is easy to use. Support from Barracuda is great also. Load Balancing of the Web Application Firewall is also nice. This allows you to do maintenance or have large loads for the end-user. Threat monitoring of our network and traffic coming into our services within our cloud solution.

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Tony Ortiz

Database Administrator

Northside ISDEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We also had looked at Kemp and F5. The Kemp and F5 had a lot of horsepower and advanced configuration and functionality. When we looked at our workload and how we were planning on using the load balancers, we really didn't need all those extra bells and whistles. Barracuda provided all the standard functionality we needed and were looking for and did so at a greatly reduced price point.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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We have not recently looked at other products because we are happy with the ease of use and ability of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall.

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Technician in Information Technology

Furniture Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

It has allowed us to maintain a very high level of uptime.
It has allowed us to perform server updates without the downtime of services.
It has provided a consistent user experience by properly balancing service loads across servers.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Reduction in DDos attacks
Reduced Phishing attempts
Granular access control

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Partner in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Barracuda Load Balancer ADC vs Barracuda Web Application Firewall