Barracuda Extends Backup Product Line With New Models and Cloud Pricing Options

Barracuda Networks, Inc. announced updates to its Backup product line – including new subscription and cloud storage pricing and two large-scale firm’ Backup products models.

Company’s pricing for Backup Vx and Cloud-to-Cloud Backup provides customers with integrated backup functionality at industry-competitive price points. Firm’s Backup 790 and 895 appliances offer 12TB and 24TB of usable capacity, respectively. For organizations transitioning to cloud, hybrid, and virtual network configurations or for those who already have made the move, these updates offer additional flexibility for data protection and recovery in a single-source solution.

“Barracuda is an established leader in the worldwide purpose-built backup appliance market and we’re pleased to expand our offering with Barracuda Backup Vx as a purpose-built virtual appliance,” said Rod Mathews, GM, storage, Barracuda. “Many businesses deploying backup software for virtualization are forced to deal with the headaches of licensing, deploying, and maintaining a ‘build-it-yourself’ solution with multiple point products. Barracuda Backup Vx delivers the same integrated functionality and quick setup experience as Barracuda physical appliances. Barracuda offers a cost effective integrated backup solution – regardless of how customers want to deploy. Today’s announcement reinforces our commitment to helping customers simplify their data protection needs.“

Subscriptions and cloud storage pricing
Backup Vx can be deployed as a purpose-built virtual appliance to protect virtualized and physical environments with existing storage infrastructures. The offering is now available as a software subscription with pricing starting at a US list of price of $599/socket/year, and includes Firm’s support and ongoing product updates.

For offsite replication to cloud storage, Backup Vx can be coupled with a new metered cloud storage plan starting at a list price of $799/TB/year. Capacity is measured based on how much cloud storage is consumed after deduplication and compression. Barracuda Cloud Storage includes WAN optimization, offsite compression and encryption, and offsite vaulting for extended retention for historical revisions. Company’s solution also includes geographic or colocation data redundancy. Customers can also choose to replicate to a remote Backup Vx receiver for basic DR.

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Standalone Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
Cloud-to-Cloud Backup can be purchased as a standalone subscription starting at a US list price of $20/user/year. With some alternative solutions priced at $30-$50/user/year, Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is price competitive with other offerings in the industry. The firm delivers more value with the Essentials for Office 365 Complete Protection edition starting at a US list price of $45/user/year, which includes backup, archiving, and email security in an integrated solution designed for Office 365 environments.

Increased storage options and improved upgrade paths
The company’ Backup models include the Backup 790 with 12TB of usable capacity and the Backup 895 with 24TB of usable capacity. These additions offer customers flexibility and existing firm’s customers now have more upgrade options when additional capacity is required.

“Barracuda Backup provides our organization with the flexibility to manage our backup and recovery needs in a way that makes the most sense for us,” said Ken Kula, partner and CFO, Eleven Inc. “Not only is Barracuda a great fit on the technology end, Barracuda also simplifies the pricing, deployment and management processes by covering all the pieces of backup and recovery with a single vendor solution.“

Pricing and availability
Backup Vx virtual appliance subscriptions start at a US list price of $599 per-socket or per-server per year. Replication to the company’s Cloud starts at a US list price of $799/TB/year and includes inline source and target-based global deduplication and compression, as well as data redundancy between or within firm’s geographically-dispersed enterprise-grade data centers. The Backup 790 appliance starts at a US list price of $17,698, and the Backup 895 appliance starts at a US list price of $35,398.