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Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 20, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Ivanti Virtual Application ...
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
16th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure Application...
Ranking in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
13th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category, the mindshare of Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) is 1.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is 4.5%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway4.5%
Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC)1.2%
Other94.3%
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2901570 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
Inherited deployment tool has required clunky iPad rollouts but has automated remote updates
I do appreciate the best features that Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) offers. One feature that stands out to me as useful is that it applies some application firewall for security, which I found valuable. Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) has impacted my organization positively as it is more of a necessity, not just because we do have all of our iPads in Ivanti MDM, but to be able to deploy properly. It certainly does save time and resources compared to doing things manually because 90% of our mobile devices are all remote and in the field, and our endpoint users are technically challenged; therefore, trying to get anyone to update or be able to do anything actually on their iPad outside of using an application would be near impossible.
SS
Cloud Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Mutual TLS has secured our web services and now needs broader protocol support
The most valuable feature we have found in Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is mutual TLS. We find mutual TLS valuable because we can verify the client securely by setting up the trust certificate of the client, and also if we do it at the client side as well. This successfully develops mutual trust, ensuring that we know the client who is calling our service is a legitimate client. That is a very nice feature.Microsoft Azure Application Gateway has helped manage our traffic efficiently because we have many web services that we can put behind the same URL, and we can have different URLs with the same Application Gateway with a limited number of listeners. We can do host-based routing as well as URL-based routing or path-based routing. It supports both, so we can have even a single URL supporting many applications, or we can have different URLs for different applications respectively. We have both use cases.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The strict security features of Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) stand out for me because essentially, you can have the hashing of all the programs that you can launch, the signature to check, the very deep analysis of the project, and the very deep log that helps you develop and analyze security."
"Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) is a very good tool that companies should use, as it is very reliable, very fast, and allows you more time to work on other cases because Ivanti handles everything smoothly."
"Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) has impacted my organization positively as it is more of a necessity, not just because we do have all of our iPads in Ivanti MDM, but to be able to deploy properly."
"Application Gateway automatically redirects unwanted users and takes care of the security aspect. It also handles the performance side of things, which is why we use it."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The best features for Microsoft Azure Application Gateway basically protect your application and provide security-related features and also divert the traffic to different instances of your application."
"The solution integrates different applications and APIs securely, enhancing overall security and network optimization."
"We chose this solution in the first place because it has access to Layer 7. I can control the requests and the content, which I can access on my network if I want to even if it's forbidden access to other external resources. If I want to monitor, for example, traffic, and apply this rule on Layer 7, I can do so. This was our main goal when implementing this application. We wanted to take advantage of the Gateway capabilities."
"The solution provides great automation and it is easy to upgrade service."
"Some of the key features of this solution are the low-level maintenance required, floating proxy service, and load balancing."
"I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."
 

Cons

"To improve Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC), I would suggest integrating something to fix the registry of a server, as including any steps that fix the registry or any DLL files causing issues where patches did not install properly would be beneficial."
"Customer support for Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) has been very lacking, which is one of my biggest issues because we have had not great experiences with their customer support over time."
"I chose eight out of ten for Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) because from the point of view of the configuration, it took so much time on the security side to configure."
"Scalability can be an issue."
"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high. The solution should offer different pricing systems."
"Overall, it just wasn't a great product. It was lacking in a lot of areas."
"The documentation is not user-friendly and it is not very easy to use."
"One of the challenges we faced was the solution does not support any other PCP protocols apart from HTTP and HTTPS."
"The tool is a pain to deal with when it comes to the area of configuration."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's first deployment is complex. It needs to improve its pricing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing is based on how much you use the solution."
"The price of the solution can be reduced a bit."
"It is not expensive."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway has less price than other application gateway solutions."
"Every solution comes with a license and cost. Microsoft provides the license and the total cost is for the maintenance every year."
"I would rate the pricing a three out of ten, with ten being cheap and one being expensive."
"Between v1 and v2, there is a lot of change in the pricing. It is very costly compared to AWS."
"The product is not expensive."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise24
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC)?
The process with Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) feels very antiquated and somewhat clunky in comparison to some other deployment software that we have used. I have the same f...
What is your primary use case for Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC)?
My main use case for Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) is deploying on iPads. We deploy a FileMaker Go because we have a proprietary application that is actually written all wit...
What advice do you have for others considering Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC)?
I would rate Ivanti Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) a five on a scale of 1 to 10. It is not completely broken and it does not work in our environment very well; it was an inherited s...
What's the difference between Azure Front Door and Application Gateway?
We found Azure Front Door to be easily scaled and very stable. The implementation is very fast and Microsoft provides excellent support. Azure Front Door can quickly detect abnormalities before the...
How does AWS WAF compare to Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Amazon’s Web Service Web Application Firewall or Microsoft Azure Application Gateway web application firewall software was the better fit ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
Regarding the pricing and licensing of Application Gateway, it is not cheap because the version we are using is WAF V2, and we are also using DDoS Premium Protection. I think the price of WAF on Ap...
 

Also Known As

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Azure Application Gateway, MS Azure Application Gateway
 

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Sample Customers

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Lilly, AccuWeather, AIRFRANCE, Honeywell
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