NetScaler

NetScaler

NetScaler

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
NetScaler	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	NetScaler ADC is an application delivery controller.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	NetScaler Verified User Contributor Chose NetScaler Much easier than Azure Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose NetScaler easy to use and setup and reliable. Once the configuration was setup and running this has been really useful and easy to maintain. The other solutions seemed overly complicated and difficult to configure and get up and running with the security that we required Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose NetScaler Similar but different. I have not fully deployed the other product to be able to compare them adequately. I would generally say that the NetScaler has larger functionality and is less pin point focused on the product delivery. There are additional services and functions that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose NetScaler NetScaler is in a class unto its own. With the ability to vpn, grant remote access, present apps and desktops (normal and 3D systems), add advanced networking and load balancing options, and scale easily it does not really have a direct competitor. Enterprise customers will … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose NetScaler user access is much easier. Don't have to worry about the vpn client, the configuration, users having to know too much know how. NetScalers allow the simplistic approach to remote access. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose NetScaler We chose Citrix ADC over Kemp and F5 due to additional integrations with various products such as Citrix/Horizon/Monitoring tools. We additionally chose ADC due to better ease of use and ability to have the appliances be virtual or physical, with the configuration being a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose NetScaler Easy to manage & upgrade software Stable code User-friendly GUI Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose NetScaler Our company uses both Citrix ADC and F5 BigIP. This is mostly due to team preference. F5 seems to require the use of separate types of devices to do multi-site load balancing while Citrix ADC functionality is the same software on all devices you implement. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose NetScaler Since we are primarily a Citrix shop, we did very little additional searching for traffic management appliances. However, we did review the possibility of using Citrix-based products, such as ASAs, via a VPN configuration to meet a similar need. Although we could have made … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose NetScaler Our organization replaced 5 BIG-IP appliances with Citrix ADC, both are comparable products. The largest advantage for our organization switching to Citrix ADC is the shared code base and reduction of the number of vendors in an implemented solution chain from end to end. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose NetScaler I have only used NetScaler in the past which felt like a completely different application to what it is now. There used to be a substantial amount of lag and associated frustration when using it but now as Citrix it is superb, not perfect but for someone who knows what it once … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose NetScaler Using Citrix ADC vs. a VPN can be helpful sometimes, depending on the network you are using. VPN often takes too long to access the files in the network. Incentivized Helpful? Aldo Gil System Administrator - VDI Citrix / Horizon with Ivanti Workspace Control Chose NetScaler I have experience with Fortinet Gateways and with Watch Guard gateways. I am aware these products are focused on different purposes but overall they are similar as they are Routers/VPN Endpoints. As far as Netscaler goes, it can compare well to these types of devices and excel … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Downs Software Developer and Database Manager Chose NetScaler Citrix was purchased before my employment. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Murphy Systems Administrator Chose NetScaler Citrix competes with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. Citrix however adds features that makes for a lighter client. Lighter bandwidth needed between client and server. This enables you to work over slower data links or enables more users on a link. Citrix gives a better … Incentivized Helpful? Ian Hansen IT Service Director Chose NetScaler Other products such as the Barracuda Load Balancer and NGINX Plus were considered, but not tested. Since our group uses other Citrix solutions, we wanted to go with a unified and integrated approach. Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Pelinka Technology Coordinator Chose NetScaler Citrix NetScaler is much more cost-effective than the A10 series and I think it does its job even better. I have used A10 in the past and while they did fine, the did not overly impress me and certainly didn't do enough for the dollar amount that they are attached to. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose NetScaler Netscaler has more features than F5 BIG-IP APM product and easier to manage with friendlier user interface for network admins. It was more cost efficient as well and if you have a Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop environment, it is more compatible with those products as well. Our … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose NetScaler Citrix works the best in my opinion compared to other competition and is most well known. Incentivized Helpful? Phillip Mengel Consultant Chose NetScaler The Citrix NetScaler is the competitor to the f5 BigIP LTM/GTM. I've used both products extensively and the both have pros and cons against each other. F5 has better support and better documentation, and is purpose built for load balancing applications. The NetScaler has a more … Incentivized Helpful? Jacob Corzine Systems Engineer Chose NetScaler For hardware products I've used smaller installations of F5 and CoyotePoint appliances. For software load-balancing solutions I've used Piranha (for LVS). The NetScaler and the F5 probably have the highest learning curves and the newer F5's probably have the greater support for … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Rush Sr System Engineer Chose NetScaler I use F5 as well, which portions we could do in NetScaler, but we kept our environments separate for specific uses. Incentivized Helpful? Josh Bugbee Network Engineer Chose NetScaler Citrix NetScaler seems to be a beast right away. Once you start testing and getting used to the logic that is in place, it becomes the obvious choice for selecting such appliance to be used in an enterprise setting. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	NetScaler
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (26 ratings)
Usability	7.8 (6 ratings)
Support Rating	7.3 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend	Citrix Citrix Netscaler can be a powerful network appliance for environments that are fully committed and open to utilizing a network appliance that isn't made by a traditional network vendor. Administrator user experience has improved over the years and will continue to improve with the flexibility of virtual and physical appliances available for medium and large enterprises. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Citrix Flexibility. NetScaler assumes its admins know a bit about networking and in-depth details surrounding the applications they are configuring access for/to. This being so, the range of configuration options is very broad allowing various versions' combinations of protocol patterns, expressions, rules etc., all to the benefit of the admin. Granularity. Having such a broad range of configuration options available, while still allowing simple options to be configured simply. The GUI is well-stylized and navigation has a good flow. Ease of control. For load-balancing of simple services right out of the box, NetScaler makes it pretty easy, compared to the range of options available in the surrounding GUI and under the hood. Incentivized Jacob Corzine Systems Engineer Read full review
Cons	Citrix The documentation could use an overhaul with specific examples related to the command line as well as GUI. Explanations in the documentation would also be helpful. Being able to have more than just one routing table would allow the ability to leverage security. Incentivized Josh Bugbee Network Engineer Read full review
Usability	Citrix I gave the NetScaler a 7 here because the system once configured and deployed is very easy to use. However, if you did not deploy the system and do not have the fundamental background knowledge then you will have trouble using the product in general. Overall it is a great product and service but does typically require professional services to be deployed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Citrix Overall, our organization's experience with Citrix support is that support can be hit or miss. Oftentimes it takes multiple attempts and much longer than desirable to obtain a viable solution for issues experienced with their products. It would be great to see Citrix invest time, effort, and almighty dollars into improving their support and bug fix process across the board. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Citrix easy to use and setup and reliable. Once the configuration was setup and running this has been really useful and easy to maintain. The other solutions seemed overly complicated and difficult to configure and get up and running with the security that we required Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Citrix We had this set up before COVID and it saved us. We just added user licenses and scaled out our citrix farm and IT sat back and just monitored users from home. Scales up and out with ease Challenging to find NetScaler experts for advanced features you want to enable and use Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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