BARRACUDA LOAD BALANCER ADC VS RELIANOID ALTERNATIVE

Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks, Inc. is a company providing security, networking and storage products based on network appliances and cloud services.

RELIANOID

RELIANOID® is an Application Delivery Controller and Load Balancer that ensures high performance and security of IT services on a massive scale.

Barracuda’s Strengths

Provides a budget-friendly solution that perfectly suits its intended clientele among SMBs and the midmarket.

Customers consistently praise the simplicity of setting up and managing Barracuda load balancer ADC products.

Gives customers the opportunity to receive complimentary hardware upgrades every four years.

Expands its product range into seven related markets, reducing the complexity of managing multiple network suppliers.

RELIANOID’s Strengths

Expert and skilled R&D professionals accomplished in Zevenet and Zen Load Balancer, departing from an Open Source technology with no vendor lock-in and broad platforms integration (hardware, virtual, bare metal and cloud), bringing security, performance and readiness.

Cost-effective solutions with no constraints on products and services, tailored to the needs of midsize companies as well as large enterprises.

Protocol Versatility adapting and managing diverse network environments and protocols (UDP, TCP, HTTP/S, SCTP, SIP, T/FTP).

L7 and L4 Performance managing over 140K concurrent users at Layer 7, while at Layer 4, it efficiently handles more than 10 million concurrent users, all with just 2 dedicated cores.

High Availability witha automatic real time stateful cluster replication.

Security and WAF improved as it incorporates an Intrusion Prevention and Detection System (IPDS) and also an integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF). It actively safeguards web applications against specific threats while providing real-time IP blacklisting, Denial of Service (DoS) protection, and support for black and whitelisting.

User-friendly interface designed for both DevOps and SRE professionals, ensuring ease of use in managing and configuring systems.

Automation thanks to its fully programmable and robust REST+JSON API.

Barracuda’s Weaknesses

Constrained range of deployment choices, missing multi-instance appliances and similar options.

Doesn’t possess a substantial enterprise user base, and the company’s distribution channels outside of North America and Europe are not firmly established.

Can fulfill fundamental ADC requirements but falls behind competitors when it comes to enterprise-oriented functionalities like RBAC and was slower to adopt support for HTTP 2.0.

RELIANOID’s Weaknesses

Emerging brand, challenging the ADC and Load Balancing market, operating as an open-source company.

Still in the process of building a significant presence. It must expand its partnership network more extensively.