F5 BIG-IP and Zevenet ADC comparison

Strengths

• Has a solid and long-standing understanding of the ADC market and has the capability to address complex application environments.
• Possesses a broad product profile and has strongest brand awareness in the market.
• Provides multiple security, remote access, performance and application delivery capabilities.
• F5´s Silverine cloud-based services provide ADC functionality for on-premises and cloud-resident applications.

• Disruptive vision with a stable growth as challengers in the ADC market, with an agile team and engaged community.
• Innovation driven with Open Source technology with no vendor lock-in and broad platforms integration (hardware, virtual, bare metal and cloud).
• Very high cost-effective solutions without limitation products and services, suitable for both midsize organizations and large enterprises.
• Investment in R&D to deliver a technology driven by easiness, performance and security.
• Company openness that provides high flexibility and agility to the customer that permits to reduce the decision time and increase the decision rate.

Weaknesses

• Is the most expensive ADC on the market.
• Has not adequately addressed the requirements associated with experimental or not well defined initiatives.
• Gartners clients and survey results confirm that the complexity of managing F5 ADC functions is a primary concern.
• Relies heavily on selling redundant ADC pairs which drives up the customer’s costs of ownership.

• Young brand as an open source company and yet to develop a big influence than other more established vendors.
• Most required features are available but yet requires some functional properties.
• Needs to develop a broader partnership network.