Barracuda Leads Integrated Systems for Purpose-Built Backup Appliances in Volume

According to the IDC Corp.‘s Worldwide Purpose-Built Backup Appliance (PBBA) Tracker, third quarter, December 2013, Barracuda Networks, Inc. shipped the highest volume of integrated systems.

IDC defines integrated systems as solutions that have a data movement engine (backup application) with the appliance, as opposed to a target system that serves as only a target for incoming backup application data.

The report also indicated that Barracuda Backup ranked number two based on total units sold for both integrated and target systems. Barracuda grew revenue 38% year-over-year, more than four-times faster growth than the overall PBBA market.

Customers continue to select Barracuda’s end-to-end backup solution for its integration into existing infrastructures. The company provides customers with features like offsite vaulting, which removes monthly and yearly revisions from the local appliance and stores them offsite, extending the life of local appliances. In addition, customers benefit from inline deduplication, reducing the backup storage footprint while shortening backup and replication times. Barracuda Backup also has deployed Cloud LiveBoot, allowing VMs to boot from the backup appliance or from the cloud in the event that access to local servers or primary storage is lost.

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“Data protection is a critical function for IT organizations that should provide security and operate with low overhead. More and more organizations are turning to Barracuda for its integrated storage and security solutions,” said Rod Mathews, GM Storage, Barracuda. “We are pleased our success is reflected in IDC’s PBBA Tracker as it further validates our key strategy to solve customers’ problems in the easiest way possible.”