Barracuda Load Balancer ADC Reviews

The typical use case for Barracuda Load Balancer ADC involves managing and distributing network traffic efficiently to maintain system performance. Clients use Barracuda Load Balancer ADC for its ability to handle and balance loads across servers.

I have seen improvements in Barracuda Load Balancer as it is a time-saving solution, cost-saving, or requires fewer people to operate.

The most useful features in Barracuda Load Balancer are its security capabilities, load balancing efficiency, and scalability. 

Additionally, it can be time-saving, cost-efficient, and requires fewer personnel for operation, which contributes to its overall value.

There are areas of Barracuda Load Balancer's security that have room for improvement, particularly concerning handling traffic. 

Also, more could be done to enhance the initial setup, as it can be complex.

I have experience working with Barracuda Load Balancer ADC.

I would rate the stability of Barracuda Load Balancer as a ten out of ten; it has high stability.

The scalability of Barracuda Load Balancer is rated as eight out of ten. It has good scalability capabilities.

The quality of technical support from Barracuda is rated ten out of ten, with one being low quality and ten being high quality.

Positive

The initial setup of Barracuda Load Balancer was complex and took about a week. It required careful planning and execution to ensure everything was configured correctly.

Barracuda Load Balancer ADC has shown improvements as a time-saving solution, cost-saving solution, or reduced personnel needed to operate it.

Pricing for Barracuda Load Balancer ADC can be a consideration. However, it offers good value with its cost-saving benefits and efficient operation, balancing the initial financial outlay.

F5 BIG-IP LTM and Fortinet FortiADC were researched in comparison to Barracuda Load Balancer ADC.

Based on my experience, I would recommend Barracuda Load Balancer ADC to others. 

Overall, I rate it a seven out of ten.

The solution is simple and powerful. I find the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC's load balancing function most valuable. It balances the traffic well. The security features, like the Web Application Firewall, are also very helpful.

I use the SSL offloading feature too. It's very helpful because it prevents overload. Our application runs on HTTP, but we upload HTTPS on the load balancer. This means there are no performance issues. I think it's very helpful.

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC could be improved with more customization features. For example, F5 uses iRules for custom configurations. I haven't found something similar in Barracuda yet. The load balancer and WAF's basic and common features are enough, but we need more customization options.

I have been working with the product for five years. 

I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten. 

I rate the tool's scalability a nine out of ten. It is recommended for medium and enterprise businesses. 

We contact support through the local partner. 

Positive

Compared with F5, Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is better regarding value and handling connection-oriented transactions. F5 is stronger in security features like WAF and anti-DDoS but not as good with connection-oriented features. That's why we use both devices for different use cases.

The solution's deployment is easy. 

The solution provides benefits like saving time on setup. It's also very helpful in handling connection-oriented tasks. 

I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten. 

I rate the overall product a nine out of ten. 

We use this solution for public-facing for LANs, WAF and non-critical public-facing. The solution is deployed on-premises.

The security feature that handles the traffic and works on the initial traffic for the website is very valuable.

The quality of the solution's performance could be improved. For example, the solution's performance is high because of CPU usage when the application is in refresh mode for more than 30 seconds. Additionally, a DNS feature could be included in the next release. For example, to repair DNS, Barracuda Load Balancer ADC can resolve the address directly, so there will be no need to go to the internal DNS. We can use Barracuda Load Balancer ADC for handling the DNS queries.

We have been using this solution for ten years and currently use version 5.14.

The solution is not scalable. For example, if you want to make upgrades, you must upgrade the entire solution. Currently, 35 people are using this solution.

We have had a good experience with customer service and support.

The initial setup was straightforward and deployment took one day.

The price of the solution is reasonable. It costs approximately 200 million. So the price is very good, and it's not very expensive, because it's just basic WAF, but the Load Balancer is good.

I rate this solution an eight out of ten. The service is good, and the price is affordable, but its performance could be improved.

I mainly use Load Balancer ADC as a WAF and a load balancer.

Load Balancer ADC could be improved by adding integration with Oracle products. In the next release, Load Balancer ADC should include form integration, a load balancer with Oracle, and URL rewriting.

I've been using Barracuda Load Balancer ADC for over six years.

Load Balancer ADC is mostly stable, though sometimes it gets overloaded due to the number of connections.

Load Balancer ADC can't scale if the usage is increased.

Barracuda's technical support is good - whenever we have an issue, they immediately connect and resolve it.

Positive

The initial setup is very easy, and I would rate the setup process as three out of five.

Initially, we implemented using a system integrator, then later, we did it in-house.

Load Balancer ADC is cost-effective and is about half the price of F5. A license for 1,000 users costs around 200,000 RIYALS. I would rate Load Balancer ADC's pricing as three out of five.

Load Balancer ADC is competitively priced, but it's not feature-rich, and its technology is not that advanced. If you have a good cash flow, I recommend using F5 instead. I would rate Load Balancer ADC six out of ten.

On the Load Balancers the features that were the best for me are the HTTP caching feature, this definitely helped increase our response time on the servers, the other feature that stood out for me is the SSL offloading feature, this helped us save resources on the application servers. The Barracuda Instant Replacement system is also a big help to me with staying up to date with the latest appliances.

A good example would be that we needed anti malware and content filtering along with bandwidth management, the Barracuda solution helped me to consolidate this and optimize our network. We also found that with the granular control we could block things strategically and allow administrators to optimize our bandwidth usage. The Barracuda solution has improved the way we function by consolidating threat management and network optimization in one standalone appliance.

It's extremely difficult to say what improvements are needed as everything we needed we could get. I think if they had a product that could allow for more WAN optimization with bigger disk space, it would definitely help. At the moment we use steel-head technology in a different appliance and if we could get the same performance from a Barracuda then we would use that. At the moment that's all that I can think of.

I have used the Barracuda Load Balancers 340 to the higher models like the 640 for roughly three years now and have had clients that have been using it for more than eight years. I definitely see myself servicing more clients with this solution.

We haven't really experienced any business critical issues with the product, however, we have had minor issues with deployment in the past. It was our first time implementing a solution as such and after that we not have the issues again. There are times where we make changes to our network and come across new issues but they are all minor and with a bit of reading we manage to resolve them quickly.

Not at all. For what we use it for it seems very stable. We find with WAN optimization it’s a bit unstable but we don't use it for that.

Not at all. We find the product very scalable especially with Virtualization.

With the level of customer service from Barracuda I would rate them an 8/10. We find them polite and helpful, however you do wait quite a while to speak to someone.

The level of technical support is great when needed. We have used it a few times when doing migrations and data center moves and we always speak to experienced people that help us gain knowledge in new issues that we come across. I can gladly say that there has not been one question that they have not been able to answer.

We did not use other solutions before, however, when we decided to implement a solution like this we did test a couple of other solutions and we chose the one best suited for our environment and that was the Barracuda product.

The initial setup was straight forward, and it took us very little time to do so, and we minimized the downtime needed for the setup. It has a basic GUI that we could easily find our way around and there are a number of setup wizards and prompts that assist you when beginning the setup. The great thing was that we could do our setup and configurations while the appliance was in demo mode. This meant that if it took us a long time to setup and configure, the license would only be activated when we had completed the setup and everything is running smoothly. This way we were not paying for the license when the device is non-functional.

We have a team of highly skilled in-house engineers who made the attempt of doing the installation themselves and it was a success. We needed minor technical support but we had this directly from Barracuda and they assisted us very well. Their expertise were great.

It is difficult for me to give exact numbers but it’s estimated at a 43% saving annually.

Inclusive of two (along with the Web Filter) of the high end appliances our total was around US$21,000. Day to day it averages about US$5,000 calculated annually. This number is not an exact figure but merely a rough estimation.

We looked at cloud based content filtering, all very good solutions but the Barracuda solution saved us the most money and we could achieve the efficiency we needed that stayed within our budget.

The technology keeps changing and there are newer products coming out all the time, it’s very difficult to stay at the top for a long time.

I would recommend that you get a POC and test it. This was the best way for us to answer all the unsure questions that we had. I would definitely look at the features of other solutions when comparing, we found that some other solutions have more features but we didn't need to use those features and the cost of those solutions were more expensive due to the extra features so if you not going to use them why pay for them? Make sure you test, and compare apples with apples.