We performed a comparison between Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"Zero Downtime has always been a strength in recommending infrastructure web services. NGINX allows me to execute such infrastructure with less complications and the ability to switch from server to server easily."
"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."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"I would like the configuration process to be more simplified."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
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Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is ranked 18th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall writes "Good feature set and is simple to deploy ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, Avi Networks Software Load Balancer and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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