What is Barracuda?
Barracuda is an email and data protection platform designed to safeguard organizations against email-based attacks and data loss. It offers a comprehensive suite of security and storage solutions including:
- Spam and virus filtering to block unwanted and malicious emails
- Email archiving for compliance and eDiscovery
- Email continuity to ensure access to email during outages
- Cloud-based backup to protect critical data
- Web filtering to enforce internet usage policies
A key capability Barracuda offers is linking these different services into a central cloud-based portal for unified policy administration, reporting, and analytics. Core benefits emphasized by Barracuda include ease of use, superior customer support, and cost-effectiveness.
Barracuda targets its solutions at organizations ranging from small businesses up to large enterprises. It faces competition from mimecast, Proofpoint, and Symantec in the email security space. Overall, Barracuda is regarded as a leader in providing cloud-based protection against email threats and as an affordable option for archiving, backup, web security, and related services.
Infoblox, Pulse Secure, SonicWall Mobile Connect, CacheGuard-OS, F5 Networks BIG-IP Edge Portal, FortiClient Endpoint Protection, Vulture, ZEVENET, Palo Alto Networks Applipedia, Aruba Central, Aerohive ID Manager, IBM Endpoint Manager, Tangoe Mobile, Barricade, modusCloud Email Security, Procera Networks are some alternatives to Barracuda.