

Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
Overall, I can say the ROI includes a twenty-five to thirty percent cost reduction, with some areas achieving forty percent cost reduction in our expenses.
There is a significant performance improvement in the website and website speed.
With F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, we have not faced any RMAs, which has made a positive operational impact.
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway significantly impacts our cost savings while maintaining higher performance.
If we can use a shared resource, then the return on investment is really nice.
We have seen a return on investment in terms of time-saving and cost-saving by not creating our own infrastructure.
I would rate the customer support on a scale of one to ten as a perfect ten based on all of the experience I have had so far.
Customer support for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is excellent.
F5 support is knowledgeable and helpful for complex LTM and ASM issues.
I would say they provide the best support for Application Gateway because they own the product, so their support is top-notch.
There is room for improvement, specifically in paid support, by providing more direct contact.
I would rate Microsoft support as good because they have a very skilled technical support team in the background
It is the most scalable and reliable system.
Within ten minutes of time, we can scale and boot as many virtual machines as needed in the environment.
We can scale F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition very quickly in public cloud environments and also in our on-premise private environment.
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is a very scalable product.
It has the autoscaling feature, so there is not much concern around performance; it can scale significantly.
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is a scalable solution.
The load balancing module still performed admirably.
The performance increased significantly and the response times of the application improved.
The uptime improvements with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition are almost close to 100%, as it only goes down if a failover happens.
We have been using it for the past two to three years, and there have been good results with no problems so far.
The stability is good, and except for a few instances, I don't see the non-availability of Azure Cloud services.
The primary concern I noted regarding F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is its scalability during high-load situations.
It is a somewhat expensive solution, and the price needs to be improved based on what our customers have told us.
With FortiWeb, we have a dashboard where I can check the policy status with just one click, and everything is easily accessible.
One feature I mentioned is the support for non-HTTPS protocols such as TCP, which could allow one endpoint for all kinds of protocols.
There is room for improvement in terms of support, such as assigning agents directly for more straightforward engagement.
In future releases of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, I would like to see more AI functionalities and a better dashboard as well as some customizations.
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's pricing structure was significantly more advantageous and aligned with our budgetary considerations.
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition solves a very significant problem of high availability and performance.
To be honest, the cost of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is not low, but since it provides enterprise-level security and everything, it should have that price.
We would prefer to have it cheaper, but it is still expensive.
Azure solutions are quite expensive.
When it comes to pricing for Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, I would rate it a seven out of ten.
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition helped our customers increase the high availability and performance of their applications, specifically their web applications.
If ten thousand, fifty thousand, or even a million people want to access the application simultaneously, we have configured auto-scalability.
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has impacted my organization positively with cost savings by saving public IP addresses, and its performance and stability, which give almost 100% uptime for the application because we have high availability.
We are using it for some of the security features for our applications, particularly for securing traffic in transit with SSL.
The Web Application Firewall (WAF) in Microsoft Azure Application Gateway has been very effective in protecting applications from security threats.
The gateway's Web Application Firewall feature enhances security as it is the first entry point to your network from the outside world.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Azure Application Gateway | 6.3% |
| F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition | 0.7% |
| Other | 93.0% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 4 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 3 |
| Large Enterprise | 10 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 22 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 6 |
| Large Enterprise | 24 |
When you need to move faster than hardware allows, BIG-IP Virtual Editions (VEs) deliver the application services you need in a more agile and flexible form factor. Get the scalability, security, and automatability BIG-IP products are known for—all in software designed for use in single-, hybrid-, or multi-cloud architectures.
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Traditional load balancers operate at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 - TCP and UDP) and route traffic based on source IP address and port, to a destination IP address and port.
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