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Barracuda Email Protection vs Veritas Enterprise Vault comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 19, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Email Protection
Ranking in Email Archiving
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (10th), Security Incident Response (9th), Office 365 Protection (4th)
Veritas Enterprise Vault
Ranking in Email Archiving
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
File Archiving (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Email Archiving category, the mindshare of Barracuda Email Protection is 15.1%, down from 18.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault is 4.3%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Email Archiving Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Barracuda Email Protection15.1%
Veritas Enterprise Vault4.3%
Other80.6%
Email Archiving
 

Featured Reviews

Xavie Simons - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at Procter & Gamble
Improved email security has reduced spam, simplified encrypted mail, and strengthened user trust
The best features Barracuda Email Protection offers include good spam filtering and very good sandboxing of all links, as well as good encryption. It also has integrated logging for user management of their own spam. It has better filtering technology, so few are false positives as well, with excellent anti-spam engines and logging. It is extremely easy to install, configure, and set up, and there is excellent message tracking for folks that say they have not received an email they were expecting. Integrated logging and user management make my daily work easier because it is very easy to log in and to manage this tool, hence making it a very good tool for email protection. It also has excellent, easy-to-add designated users as site administrators, and it is competitively priced. It has a user-friendly portal, strong cloud-based features, and no additional maintenance cost, along with responsive support. Barracuda Email Protection has positively impacted my organization by handling encryption better than any other tool I have used before, which has increased our email protection significantly. Our security has also increased from forty percent to sixty-five percent, especially when dealing with all the threats that come through emails. It has been a great tool because we can handle email delays and delays on file scanning. When our partners are happy, we are very happy, and it has helped us have less time chasing bad emails. The fast implementation of encrypted mail keeps employees working with less interruption since they are happy, satisfied, and secure.
Charles Nwaokukwu - PeerSpot reviewer
Head, Datacenter and IT Enterprise Applications at GTBANK
Support for data archiving and integration capabilities enhance data management
The GUI of Veritas Enterprise Vault is not friendly; the user interface can be quite convoluted for users or IT people who are not conversant with it. Even for professionals, it can be complex. Over time, if you get the hang of it, you'll understand it, but it's not something you can teach a user to quickly grasp. It's kind of complex. Veritas could do something to change this situation. I've given feedback quite a number of times through various channels, including during support calls. I remember trying to do a system state backup using our NetBackup feature, and I found out that Veritas NetBackup cannot back up a system state. Having numerous solutions instead of just one backup system can be quite unfriendly. They can back up other things such as databases and file servers, but when it comes to carrying a system state backup, it falls short. Honestly, Veritas Enterprise Vault's costing was one of the main reasons we dropped the integration to the cloud.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We check the reports sometimes to see that frequent attacks and malicious emails are being blocked by the solution."
"The most helpful aspect for me is the out-of-the-box configuration, which is fairly good."
"We now have a secondary backup of Office 365 that's much easier to retrieve compared to Microsoft. If someone deletes something in Office 365, we can get it back within Office 365, but it's difficult. Barracuda is much easier. There is a lot less management needed using Barracuda. The management becomes much easier for Office 365 and it's no longer on-prem, so there are fewer hours managing on-prem devices, servers, and things of that nature. We don't have network appliances anymore for the backup of our information."
"The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."
"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Essentials are it's a trusted name and is rated very high on review sites. It blocks high percentages of spam and junk email and it's in the cloud. They have hardware appliances, but this is in the cloud. The solution is very effective at blocking malware and blocking spam and this is what we are looking for. There's not a whole lot of complexity, you want a solution that is very good at blocking out all of the unwanted emails."
"The beauty of Barracuda Email Protection is that it is easy to manage and simple to deploy."
"When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Enterprise Vault is the on-premise recall from your email into Outlook."
"I use the solution to find data loss and restore the data."
"What I have heard from admins working on that environment is that they are very satisfied with Veritas Enterprise Vault, and they are also satisfied with what Commvault solution."
"Support is great and they have a very good response time."
"Enterprise is a user-friendly product."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault has its advantages; it does the work that it's supposed to do effectively."
"From my experience, the most beneficial aspects of the product are the lower cost per terabyte and the security of old data with ease of access."
"The archive allows the customers to search any items as far back as five or ten years ago."
 

Cons

"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"Sometimes, in some cases, this might end up with their teams being unfocused or a bit thin and stretched and super busy."
"The solution's reporting mechanism is a little poor and could be improved."
"The technology works on a supervised engine, but it would be better if it ran on an unsupervised engine."
"Two to three months back, we got fraudulent emails in which someone in the organization was being blamed."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The customer service and support could be improved if the support were available directly in Europe. Currently, the support is often managed from India, so we sometimes need to wait due to the time zone difference. It would be quicker and better if the support were provided by European staff."
"One of the big disadvantages is that the product doesn't cover structured data"
"The GUI is not friendly. The user interface can be quite convoluted for a user or an IT person who is not conversant with Veritas Enterprise Vault to immediately grasp it."
"The GUI is not friendly. The user interface can be quite convoluted for a user or an IT person who is not conversant with Veritas Enterprise Vault to immediately grasp it."
"The product is a very complicated solution. It is not easy to upgrade and get alerts of issues. You have to check it all the time to see if there is an internal error."
"The deployment phase is very hard."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault's cloud backup solution should include the journal archiving feature along with the standard licensing package."
"It requires a lot of maintenance; we had a lot of problems with it as services were falling down or failing, so it's not really easy to maintain."
"The integration needs to improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Despite a list price possibly around $40 per user, their market price allows customers to easily buy the solution."
"We pay annually. They never charged us for anything else. And they were quite a bit under that $20,000 mark. It was $19,074. And they've been pretty good about not skyrocketing the price or anything like that. It has gone up. It's gone up to $24,000 in 2020."
"The solution's pricing is moderate, where it is neither cheap nor expensive."
"Price-wise, this product is middle-of-the-road."
"We didn't have to pay a lot for the solution because we got it from a good vendor with a good user volume."
"The price of Barracuda Essentials is better than some of the competing products."
"Barracuda licensing model is good."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"There is a license required for this solution and it is typically is paid annually."
"It's an affordable solution"
"The price for Enterprise Vault is around €100 per user."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault pricing is average, and I rate the solution a five out of ten for pricing."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an expensive solution."
"Enterprise Vault is a little bit expensive."
"The pricing is very high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Construction Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Educational Organization
7%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Email Protection?
Barracuda Email Protection is easy to deploy and maintain. It doesn't require a specialized resource to manage this tool.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Email Protection?
Their list price is too high, but in India, the selling price is affordable at around $10 per user per year. Despite a list price possibly around $40 per user, their market price allows customers t...
What needs improvement with Barracuda Email Protection?
Considering it integrates with Azure, I would like to be able to effectively set up policies where people are by default included in certain settings. For instance, for email quarantine, I can't se...
What do you like most about Veritas Enterprise Vault?
Veritas Enterprise Vault is an archive solution for email and files.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Enterprise Vault?
I don't know if the solution is affordable or if it's still a bit expensive in comparison to other products.
What needs improvement with Veritas Enterprise Vault?
We just use NetBackup and appliances, and we don't use other solutions. We have NetBackup, and Backup Exec is a lower grade software that we don't utilize. We don't have Access Appliances. We don't...
 

Also Known As

Barracuda Essentials, Barracuda Forensics and Incident Response
Enterprise Vault, Symantec Enterprise Vault
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

ACT Government, Acumen Group, AGIP, Delta Dental Plans Association, Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., Equinox Information Systems
Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Dell, HP, Cisco, Adobe, Symantec, SAP, EMC, Citrix, VMware, Accenture, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, NetApp, Nokia, Panasonic, Red Hat, Salesforce, Siemens, Sony, Toshiba, Twitter, Verizon, Visa, Vodafone, Walmart, Yahoo, ZTE
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