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Barracuda Email Protection vs Veritas Enterprise Vault comparison

 

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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
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (13th), Office 365 Protection (4th)
Veritas Enterprise Vault
Ranking in Email Archiving
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
File Archiving (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Email Archiving category, the mindshare of Barracuda Email Protection is 10.7%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault is 15.4%, up from 12.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Email Archiving
 

Featured Reviews

LeeMiles - PeerSpot reviewer
Very good threat protection, spam filtering, and cloud backups
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 set up a global setting. Users must go through an induction session where I guide them in configuring quarantine alerts rather than having default settings based on group membership. This seems like an oversight since they already use Active Directory details. They should assign policies based on group membership, which configures these settings by default.
Jayson Martin - PeerSpot reviewer
The data retrieval process is seamless
The permission structure plays a big role in the solution's setup process. The deployment process involves setting up all connectors between the Veritas Enterprise Vault, emails, and file servers. At our company, we found the permissions created a complicated situation often during the setup of Veritas Enterprise Vault. The deployment of the solution overall took around a week for our organization.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"The product is easy to deploy and maintain."
"The archiving and search features are very good."
"I would rate the solution nine out of ten."
"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"I'm quite satisfied with the graphical user interface for Barracuda products."
"We check the reports sometimes to see that frequent attacks and malicious emails are being blocked by the solution."
"The beauty of Barracuda Email Protection is that it is easy to manage and simple to deploy."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and performance. However, the performance can depend on the workload being used."
"The stability is excellent."
"I use the solution to find data loss and restore the data."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is highly stable and has low-maintenance."
"The data retrieval process was seamless with Veritas Enterprise Vault"
"Compared to other third-party products, the solution's most valuable features are its cost and security."
"The integration capabilities are second to none."
"We use the solution to archive emails."
 

Cons

"The technology works on a supervised engine, but it would be better if it ran on an unsupervised engine."
"Barracuda Email Protection needs better reporting and more robust integration with security awareness training platforms and third-party solutions."
"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."
"There is room for improvement, particularly in reaching out to technical support during deployment."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"The platform's price could be affordable for small businesses."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault's cloud backup solution should include the journal archiving feature along with the standard licensing package."
"The integration needs to improve."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault should improve its indexing and customization options."
"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 solution is not user-friendly and the restoration is not fast. It's also tricky to get information from it."
"It's not so easy for a layperson or a new user to learn to use Veritas Enterprise Vault."
"The stability could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is similar to that of Microsoft 365."
"Price-wise, this product is middle-of-the-road."
"Barracuda licensing model is good."
"Despite a list price possibly around $40 per user, their market price allows customers to easily buy the solution."
"The product is expensive."
"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 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."
"There is a license required for this solution and it is typically is paid annually."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an expensive solution."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault pricing is average, and I rate the solution a five out of ten for pricing."
"Enterprise Vault is a little bit expensive."
"The price for Enterprise Vault is around €100 per user."
"The pricing is very high."
"It's an affordable solution"
"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
17%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
Educational Organization
40%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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?
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.
What needs improvement with Veritas Enterprise Vault?
It's not so easy for a layperson or a new user to learn to use Veritas Enterprise Vault. It's a little complex to understand compared to other products. Veritas Enterprise Vault doesn't support cus...
 

Also Known As

Barracuda Essentials
Enterprise Vault, Symantec Enterprise Vault
 

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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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