# NetScaler Reviews **Vendor:** Cloud Software Group **Category:** [Load Balancing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/load-balancing) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 85 ## About NetScaler NetScaler is the application delivery and security platform of choice for the world’s largest companies. Thousands of organizations worldwide including eBay, IKEA, and Aria — and more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500 — rely on NetScaler for high-performance application delivery, comprehensive application and API security, and deep observability. NetScaler is a business unit of Cloud Software Group. ## NetScaler Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find the **ease of management** of NetScaler enhances reliability and performance in their operations. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of NetScaler, finding it quick and manageable for their needs. (1 reviews) - Users find NetScaler to be **exceptionally efficient** , delivering reliability and ease of management in its performance. (1 reviews) - Users find **management ease** with NetScaler to be exceptional, noting its reliability and quick usability. (1 reviews) - Users praise the **management efficiency** of NetScaler, noting its reliability and ease of use. (1 reviews) - Performance Efficiency (1 reviews) - Reliability (1 reviews) - Seamless Implementation (1 reviews) - Speed (1 reviews) - Time-saving (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users are frustrated by the **expensive licensing costs** , which have more than doubled since 2024. (1 reviews) - Users are frustrated with the **expensive licensing** of NetScaler, as costs have dramatically increased. (1 reviews) ## NetScaler Reviews ### 1. Excellent loadbalancer, unfortunately the licence cost has spiralled, from last year to this! **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Warren S. | Head of Infrastructure, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2025 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Its very reliable, very robust, very quick, very easy to use and manage. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** The cost per licence has more than doubled since 2024! **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** It load balances some of our internal, mission critical apps ### 2. A Feature-Rich ADC, But With a Learning CurveNetScaler Review: Powerhouse ADC for and Scalability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kourosh M. | HighTech Consultant/Engineer/Researcher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2024 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** application performance and security with features like load balancing, caching, and a web application firewall **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** NetScaler can be expensive, especially for advanced editions and larger deployments. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** NetScaler tackles challenges like slow applications, security vulnerabilities, and traffic overload by distributing tasks, optimizing connections, and shielding from attacks. ### 3. Awesome App , Especially For Business Individuals With Extra Security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tasha F. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** The fact that after a period of time the screen times out! **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** The fact that the app times out while using the apps in there but besides that it's great. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** A incognoito window for workspaces. ### 4. 360 degree comprehensive product for app delivery **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sourabh J. | Solutions Consultant Professional Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Citrix Application Delivery Controller or NetScaler is a great product and provide multiple feature set like Load balancing, Global server or DNS level load balancing, content switching, reverse proxy, proxy and the list goes on. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC though is a great product, but learning this product and using all features set is difficult as these feature sets are well distributed within the ADC console. Also finding small configs might get difficult due to lack of search feature. My ask will be to make adc console a bit more simple. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Citrix ADC makes it easy for an organization to deliver application to users both internally and externally. There are so many features which makes it quite compelling to use this single product rather than multiple load balancing products ### 5. Citrix ADC aka Netscaler **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh R. | Senior Lead Engineer - Network, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** I like ease of working in gui as well as command line interface. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Citrix GSLB things are little buggy when you use it in cluster. Support is not upto mark still need to improve. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easy on the way of implementation, migration from legacy LB. Specially it is very much coded for everything we need for header tweaking for https traffic. No need to script anything just use its advance filter that does your work. ### 6. Maximizing Network Performance and Security with Citrix ADC **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tavva A. | Site Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC provides advanced security features, such as web application firewall (WAF), DDoS protection, and SSL encryption, to help organizations protect their applications and data from cyber threats. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** One challenge organizations may face with Citrix ADC is its complexity. While Citrix ADC offers a comprehensive set of features, it can be challenging for IT administrators to configure and manage, especially for those who are new to the platform. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Citrix ADC is designed to address several challenges related to application delivery, such as network performance, security, and scalability. By optimizing application delivery and user experience, Citrix ADC helps organizations improve productivity, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction. ### 7. Citrix Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lakshmi Chaitanya Prabha S. | Data Analyst (Associate) , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** It is a load balancing application which provides visibility to multi cloud. It is highly scalable and provides best performance and low latency. Citrix adc provides more security to the applications access through it. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** I feel the connectivity takes long time compared to VPN. Sometimes, when I'm trying to access the machine Or application through it. It shows error. At that time, I need to login again and access the application. It takes long time. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can access any machine Or applications from anytime and anywhere. It gives that flexibility to the user. And it is highly secure. Performance also good compared to VPN. ### 8. Disabling traffic at any time anywhere **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Md S. | Test Secialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC helps to solve the traffic mostly for our web applications and its switching towards different infrastructures.It helps to reduce stress on normal way of work to elongate till best of optimisations. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** some demerit includes like at some point of time it becomes slow when there is much load of opened applications and to route their way to execution. Also for switching and optimising is a bit tough task **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to reduce the balancing on each type of users and handover the best of use between switching and optimisations. Best thing is clears best of its traffics very smoothly. ### 9. Good purpose-built networking appliance software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivek D. | Workforce Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC is one of the best traffic management and load-balancing software with reasonable application-explicit traffic investigation to circulate cleverly, advance cleverly, and secure network traffic for web applications. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Cons about it are the Absence of understanding when shift stirs things up around town, and you'll be standing by very much like every other person for a goal until it's fixed. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems like the report highlighted the upsides of Citrix single-pass design for WAF and ADC activities. The lower computer processor use implies less perplexing designs as well as less and more modest gadgets! ### 10. Application delivery progression is seamlessly facilitated by Citrix ADC for our Microsoft web apps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shreya B. | Cloud Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC chiefly provides flexible & consistent approaches to our application delivery lifecycle as various deployment considerations get tricky. On working with new containerization services, visibility of our entire cloud environments, flexibility to scale up or down based on demands and security compliances are satisfactory through Citrix ADC. It also provides effective control management & orchestration platform for our organization's app infrastructure. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC follows a single code base framework which is effective for our application portfolio. Collaboration and consistency in our deliverables become easy through this and also we make use of its pooled licensing feature. Overall, there isn't anything to dislike as Citrix ADC handles the network service scalability and automation requirements. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** We rely on Citrix ADC's integrated security & analytics for governing our Microsoft web applications. It seamlessly works well with our Azure portal and aids by offering performance optimization & security to our application deployments. It also overviews the server loads and prevents outages through its proactive responsiveness & availability reshuffling approaches. It also provides various built-in API protection to prevent security violations from DDoS, Bots or application logic attacks as we make use of multiple third-party applications. ### 11. Simplifying home office **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Igor D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Efficiency to deploy this SaaS solution is the better thing of this product. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** You will need to purchase an upgrade if you plan to use the tool after 2025 **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy and fast deployment of a SASE Solution, delivering a consolidating access portal for users, facilitating access and use of corporate tools.Increasing the organization's productivity with all accesses available through a click. ### 12. Streamlining Application Delivery: A Review of Citrix ADC's Features and Benefits **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Barış D. | network and system administrator, Education Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC, formerly known as NetScaler ADC, is a high-performance application delivery controller that helps improve the performance, availability, and security of applications delivered over the network **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** However, it's worth noting that every technology has its advantages and limitations, and Citrix ADC is no exception **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** optimizing application traffic, reducing response times, and ensuring fast and reliable access to applications from any device or locatio ### 13. Collective secured platform for your application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav G. | Customer Service Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** All application are bundled in a single place, also this is quite secured as it need a specific login and controlled by IT. All application have dual authentication too. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Its interface is bit slow and take some time to login. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its giving a common platform for all application to host private and public cloud application. Also this is more authentic and secured environment for enterpriss. ### 14. Citrix-Easy, Secure and Mobile **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** natalie g. | Senior Talent Acquisition, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** I like that Citrix is available as a mobile option, it is secure, times out very good ease of use. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Because Citrix is secure, it is important to know and keep your password updated **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access away from work network ### 15. Best application for Remote Working **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adil S. | Senior System Test Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2023 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Faster connectivity and easily user accessible **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Some time multiple login are active at same time **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working from any location accessing any machine from any remote location ### 16. Citrix ADC - Versatile Security Appliance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** The Citrix ADC product line offers a wide array of functions and features for securing user access into our environment. We like how this product can be used for many uses (load balancing, content switching, gateway access, posture validation, etc). **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** The menu flow isn't the most intuitive and makes it hard to get used to plus help train other people on. You'll find certain logs/etc can't be accessed from the GUI requiring extra knowledge on of the CLI. You have to be very careful with upgrades we always work with our TAM to ensure our upgrade path/version so we minimize our risk and introducing any new issues in our environment. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Citrix ADC prodvies a secure channel for our users to connect through and load balance allowing us to offer maximum aviablibity as we can incorporate multple levels of redundancy. It also give us the ability to have deeper visibility into users sessions and help breakdown potential issues as they arrise. ### 17. ADC has lots of functions but it isn't easy to implement and use. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wilson O. | IT Coordinator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Load Balance is the best function of Citrix ADC. We are transferring this service from other servers or devices to enjoy all capabilities of Citrix ADC **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** We are trying to use VPN over Citrix ADC with MFA and it shows a little difficult to set up for our needs. **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** Citrix ADC is an excellent device to support business growth. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are transferring the service from SAP Load Balance to Citrix ADC and it is showing a better availability for our service. ### 18. WBD Citrix ADC review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC is most helpful to provide secured encrypted traffic from Internet to the data center. I like the way it is designed only to allow traffic though 443 port and establish VPN tunnel virtually from any device. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Some of the features are slightly complex and it is not very user-friendly. A more simpler GUI-based configuration of features will help reduce the complexity and dependency on individuals. **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** Citrix ADC is an appliance mandatory to any corporate organization who wants to provide secure access to the applications/Virtual Desktops **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** All our vendors/contractors/partners make use of Citrix ADC to access WBD's Citrix applications. It reduces the time and effort to get legal approval for establishing secure network connectivity from the vendor premises to the WBD corporate infrastructure ### 19. power full for create load balancer of apps **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akhmad Syafrul A. | Senior Database Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** flexiblity to configuration from UI or bash scripting command, and can realtime monitoring log transaction of citrix. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** monitoring board about transaction is not powerfull for get detail information for example like request/second for specific apps or host. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** solving problem slow apps/bad performance application will be solved after implement load balancer using citrix ADC and load can be share to all node server. benefiting application to be fast respon and support ti increate transaction user. ### 20. Citrix adc **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh J. | Sr. Citrix Admin, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Connection orientation Load balancer Application load balance Secure connection User authentication **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC most important device for load blance **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Between Sync time issue with both adc device ### 21. Good Platform for Load Balancing and Content Switching **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Seonghoon K. | Engineer II, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Feature rich and fairly stable platform. Fairly inclusive ecosystem of products from the Edge to the Datacenter **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Slow support and convoluted API system. The slow support is especially a problem when you have issues that impact production **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load balancing to critical web applications and other forms of application servers. The content switching aspect is also very helpful for namespace management ### 22. I must recommend to every enterprise customer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nisar S. | Presales - Solution Architect Digital Workspace, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC is the most advanced, powerful enterprise networking device to unify all networking requirements and secure application delivery. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Public cloud compatibility limited scalability features within cloud environments; Citrix must focus on developing a cloud-ready model for bespoke requirements. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Citrix ADC is helping us to break through many use cases, especially around secure delivery of the corporate application and unification of decentralized applications. ### 23. Online any time safe access to database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** I am able to access my operational database and also update it remotely on need basis even when not in office thereby enabling continuous monitoring , which many other firms give only to select accounts. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Very short duration of access with OTP sometimes leads to access issues when mobile sms messages get delayed. Maybe access window for OTP entry can be increased. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being an operational head I need to monitor my real time reports and also access some vital information during critical jobs. Tinely and remote access hdlps me stay ahead of my competitors and also forecast and minimize downtime of activities ### 24. Citrix ADC **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jerry J. | Senior Technical Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Rock-solid product for global server load balancing **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** I cannot think of anything I do not like about the product at this time **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** Citrix ADC is a great product. We have used it for load balancing for many years. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Citrix ADC has been our load balancing platform for many years and it is solid ### 25. Citrix ADC **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Upgrading the ADC software is usually straightforward and easy. Also any support issues for the ADC is usually excellent those are the important points for me **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** My experience with the EPA is what I dislike and is not working very well for us. **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** ADC is a good product do your research because its a very powerful piece of equipment which can meet your needs in most situations **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping us as a secure gateway and access point into our network ### 26. Citrix ADC - Formerly Netscaler - Great secure access for our users **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Once up and running, easy to maintain and modify. Easy for our end users to connect remotely through our ADC environments. We've been able to move multiple load balancers from other systems to our ADC environments **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Upgrades can be troublesome and disk space issues can be difficult to track down to free up space for upgrades. Error messages aren't always clear in these regards **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Excellent for our end user remote access and easy to lock down for 3rd party vendor access. Load balancing works very well vs other solutions ### 27. Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Helder C. | Support analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** The security issues arise because the function we use demands a lot. The Gateway service and the balancer. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** I like all the ADC functions, however the certificate part is a bit tricky. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** at the moment ### 28. Indispensable to provide secure external access **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ednaldo S. | DataCenter Analist, Citrix Expecialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** range of features to be applied and improve quality and safety **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Dashboard Can be enhanced to simplify viewing **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improved access to on-premises CVAD environment and integration with Citrix Cloud and Federation with OAM ### 29. Powerful network device. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mirsad K. | Application Delivery Infrastructure Architect and Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Very feature rich. Easy to use and adminster. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Not the easiest to implement. Citrix also could provide more implementation assistance without charging. **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** Very powerful and feature rich. Great security tools. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load balancing mostly. Also app firewall is great. Amazing product for security. ### 30. Citrix ADC **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC paired with Citrix ADM make managing load balancing a breeze, especially in complex environments. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** There is not much to dislike. Citrix ADC is reliable and stable as well as easy to troubleshoot. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Citrix ADC to load balance complex Citrix virtualization environments. HDX insight is a life saver, especially when paired with remote hosted Citrix environments. ### 31. It is a very user friendly and effective system. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav S. | Executive engineer(Production), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Its ability to hamdle load of data is good. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Overly complex structure and lisencing issues **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing continous access with 4 layers to multiple users ### 32. Management of Citrix services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Durgesh k. | Information Technology Infrastructure Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** It's very useful tool to manage Citrix infrastructure components, ADC license management is the best feature of Citrix applications delivery management. And you can manage the traffic as well **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** It's quite complicated to deploy but useful. It's not compatible with Nutanix AHV hypervisor. We need to convert it's vhd file to AHV compatible to deploy in nutanix hypervisor. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Whenever I facing challenges while troubleshooting the Citrix traffic, I prefer Citrix ADM to find out the insites of the Citrix traffic. ADM is very useful to find out the breakdown in Citrix adc traffic ### 33. Citrix ADC Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samet B. | Senior Network & Security Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2021 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** My favorite feature of Citrix compared to other products is that it installs an SSL certificate on Citrix and assigns it to the relevant virtual servers, and it is much simpler in the process of adding more than one certificate with SNI. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** GUI log interface is weaker than other manufacturers. It can be difficult to view detailed logs without ADM. Depending on your level of expertise, you can see some logs that you cannot see in the GUI from the CLI interface. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** We increase the security importance of the websites and applications that we host on the internet with WAF and ensure that customer access is faster / continuously accessible thanks to caching. ### 34. Citrix is the BEST! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Debbie H. | Membership Service Representative, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Super easy to use.. Super secure... Citrix is the BEST! Easy to use and easy to understand User tools are super helpful! **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** No dislikes here..... Easy instructions.... Works great! **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** Keep doing what you are doing! Saves time.. Way more production Ease of use! **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits are ease of use...and knowing the security It saves time..saves money! Way more production! ### 35. An All in One Solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** We like that we can combine VIP load balancing and Citrix Gateways in one appliance and retire some other load balancing hardware. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Some of the user GUI has not been updated for as long as we have used the product, and some features are hard to find unless you know what exactly you are looking for. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can retire some older competitor appliances and move their load-balanced VIPS to the Citrix ADC instead. we are also leveraging multiple Citrix gateways from the ADC instead of using a Citrix Storefront front-ended solution. ### 36. Great load balancing product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Well supported. Good features. Fixes for security issues are sent out quickly. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Sometimes confusing to find where things are in the GUI interface. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use ADC to present SSL communication to the public and hide the backend servers from being exposed. ### 37. Using Citrix ADC for Hospital System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** The Citrix ADC can deliver Citrix app from multiple Citrix environments very seamlessly. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** The Citrix advanced policies can be more challenging to learn or write. **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** none **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pulls together 3 hosted environments and 3 local on-premise environments. ### 38. Great platform! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** I am constantly finding new features, and have been able to engineer entire solutions to benefit my company using ADC. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Policy expressions have become complicated with the push to replace Classic Expressions with Advanced Expressions. **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** A great solution and with much better pricing than F5 or other Load Balancers! **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Controlling and customizing Application and Website Delivery, as well as securing authentication methods. I can engineer a solution from start-to-finish that is both user-friendly and highly secure. ### 39. Citrix ADC Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** The availability of many features built into the product. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** For something to be able to do everything, sometimes it is hard to get it to do anything. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secure frontend access to Citrix and the uses of the SSL Forward Proxy. ### 40. access the desktops and apps from the outside of the company network **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Manage access for the VDI and apps from the users outside of the company network **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** It is very reliable. Like this product, so nothing so far **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Update the ADC appliances ### 41. ADCNS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Soraya R. | Engineer III, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** It provides our organization needs and more. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Nothing great product. Nothing great product. **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** Yes! awesome product! **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connections and security benefits. ### 42. Citrix ADC **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** The Citrix ADC makes our jobs easier by allowing us to provide company resources VDI's\applications securely to our customers. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Isues we have encounter with functionality or bugs after upgrades **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** Citrix ADC is an extremely powerful tool in today's work environment **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows our customers to access our internal resources securely ### 43. Application Delivery Controller **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muneer Ahmed K. | Dy. General Manager - IT, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2021 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** One of the easiest GUI for administrators, easy to admin with adequate security features, that any enterprise-class customer is looked for. ready template for many application which ease the admin task at the time of configuration. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Customer may need an additional log management system for log management and its analysis. However Citrix has it's on logs management solution, which can analyze the triggers. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Acting as Application load balancer, most of the applications template are available which eases the admin tasks, SSL VPN for very niche services. trun around time to business increased, creates secure channels to provide access from data centre to end point. ### 44. NetScaler set and forget...just not about the certificate renewals! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Once the NetScaler is configured you can pretty much forget about it until it's time for a cert renewal. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Upgrades are not as straightforward when using a theme on ADC. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** ADC assists in securing applications and load balancing! ### 45. They run well with little unplanned downtime **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** I like best the regular updates. 12345678 **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** moving from classic to advanced expressions has proven challenging. **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** Get one **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Teh ADC provides secure gateway services for CVAD. ### 46. All in one appliance for secure connectivity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** As a load balancer and securely establishing the to the users. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Observed ADC has multiple Frequently vulnerabilities **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** Yes **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is benefiting for load balancing ### 47. Good management tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2022 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** İt is easy to use and you can manage your app in one panel **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Citrix Usually is a good brand. I have never faced any situation which ı dislike. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** İ was giving remote support for customers service consultants at the company where ı had worked. ### 48. Decent on Prem Solution for protecting applications **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohit G. | Asst. Vice President - Information Security , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2021 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Its white-listing approach for learning and blocking bad traffic makes applications pretty secured. Required more efforts and collaboration but leaves less room for hackers to play around to bypass the WAF. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** Too much effort and collaboration with developers required to enable the block mode successfully. Implementation required a good amount of network changes. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** Major one is to protect our public applications from attacks ### 49. Must have if using Netscalers **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2021 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** We can protect our internal web applications and API endpoints with this feature. We used to have netscalers only for Citrix traffic and were debating to go with F5 or cloud app firewalls + load balancers but since we already had our netscalers and had left-over bandwidth we used them to solve our need for cheaper than other technologies. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** It is possible to automate request with the Nitro API but specially with the Ansible role for Citrix ADC. I would like to see more docs and details in this area but already possible. **What problems is NetScaler solving and how is that benefiting you?** In a previous job we had a lot of internally hosted web apps accessible to external users and it was straightforward to add and monitor the layer of security. ### 50. Load Balancing Citrix ADC **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MOHAMMAD R. | Freelance IT Support & Technician , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2021 **What do you like best about NetScaler?** Citrix ADC is the most comprehensive application delivery and load balancing solution for monolithic and microservices-based applications. Which means you can deliver a better user experience, on any device—anywhere. **What do you dislike about NetScaler?** There is nothing like this to dislike this poduct **Recommendations to others considering NetScaler:** Easy to Manage and configure. 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