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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
6.6
Number of Reviews
24
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

"Barracuda Email Protection has positively impacted my organization by increasing our email protection and security significantly, with our security increasing from forty percent to sixty-five percent, especially when dealing with all the threats that come through emails."
"The most valuable feature is the gateway."
"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"We check the reports sometimes to see that frequent attacks and malicious emails are being blocked by the solution."
"Barracuda Email Protection has positively impacted our organization because we rely on it to stop spear-phishing and phishing overall, enabling us to conduct our business securely."
"The best feature of Barracuda Email Protection is that it provides protection for Microsoft 365."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"I don't see any other email security solution that stacks up against them."
"The search feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The archive allows the customers to search any items as far back as five or ten years ago."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault has its advantages; it does the work that it's supposed to do effectively."
"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."
"Organizations can streamline governance processes and improve compliance by utilizing automated classification to tag and categorize data."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and performance."
"If you are on-premise and cannot go to the cloud, this is the best solution for easy maintenance of your Exchange server."
"The stability is excellent."
 

Cons

"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."
"Two to three months back, we got fraudulent emails in which someone in the organization was being blamed."
"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."
"Regarding the price, I find it pretty expensive. It is not even reasonable; it is pretty expensive because we are dealing with the South African market and our currency is not as powerful as the dollar."
"Sometimes, in some cases, this might end up with their teams being unfocused or a bit thin and stretched and super busy."
"Barracuda Email Protection needs better reporting and more robust integration with security awareness training platforms and third-party solutions."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."
"To give a quick calculation, one year of Veritas Enterprise Vault is more expensive than five years of CommVault."
"Enterprise Vault is an Active/Passive node. It doesn't provide high availability with Active/Active."
"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."
"Frankly, three years ago, technical support from Veritas was better than now. Veritas was bought by an American company, and the quality is much lower than it used to be."
"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."
"I cannot perform application backup, and I am not able to repair the license."
"The backup area needs improvement. I cannot perform application backup, and I am not able to repair the license."
"The solution is not user-friendly and the restoration is not fast. It's also tricky to get information from it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing is moderate, where it is neither cheap nor expensive."
"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 price of Barracuda Essentials is better than some of the competing products."
"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."
"Barracuda licensing model is good."
"The product is 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 pricing is very high."
"Enterprise Vault is a little bit expensive."
"It's an affordable solution"
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an expensive solution."
"There is a license required for this solution and it is typically is paid annually."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise7
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?
I think the costs of Barracuda Email Protection are acceptable because I am selling another software license for anti-spam, and I have no problem with that product.
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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