Barracuda Load Balancer ADC vs. Cisco Application Control Engine

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.

Incentivized

• 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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• Overall, there are no issues. It just runs.

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It is a product we plan on continuing to use.

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

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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.

Incentivized

• 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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