Barracuda Networks Launches New Message Archiver

Barracuda Networks Inc. launched the Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 models for enterprises and large organizations searching for an affordable solution to preserve and index all emails. The Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 models also help organizations to efficiently store and manage emails while also satisfying regulatory compliance criteria for saving email.

"One of the biggest challenges facing larger organizations today is the need to balance making sure that their email server continues to operate efficiently while also future proofing their network for compliance," said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda Networks. "The Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 enable enterprise customers to achieve legal and regulatory compliance needs while making more efficient use of storage technology by providing increased performance, reliability and scalability inside the IT organization."

The Barracuda Message Archiver 850 can archive and index email for up to 4,000 users, and the Barracuda Message Archiver 950 has enough processing power to handle 6,000 users. Both models include dual-redundant power supplies and hot-swappable RAID arrays. In addition to offering the full set of storage capabilities — including single instance storage and built-in storage and redundancy through internal or external mirroring — offered with all Barracuda Message Archiver models, the Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 models also include a hardware-based iSCSI host based adapter for high-performance interaction with Storage Area Networks.

Reliable Search and Storage for Public Records Requests
As the second largest school district in Washington with more than 29,000 students spread across 54 schools, the Spokane Public School District in Spokane, needed to ensure that it was equipped to quickly respond to email discovery requests. In Washington, all public organizations, including school districts, are subject to public records requests and various entities can request specific information, such as emails, related to district operations. Spokane Public Schools selected the Barracuda Message Archiver 850 to help manage and store the email of its more than 4,500 email users to fulfill these public records requests.

"Prior to installing the Barracuda Message Archiver 850, there was no centralized way to fulfill this type of request," said Brown. "All employees would be asked to go through their own email inboxes and forward any emails related to the specific request to the IT staff for inclusion in a response to the requesting entity. This was a slow, time-consuming and ineffective process."

As with the full Barracuda Message Archiver product line, the Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 offer a complete set of message archiving features designed with both compliance and storage efficiency in mind. The Barracuda Message Archiver stores and indexes all email for easy search and retrieval by both regular users and third-party auditors and offers greater ease of use and administration, enabling deployment in less than 60 minutes.

"We were pleased that the Barracuda Message Archiver 850 not only was able to archive on a going forward basis but it also allowed us to automatically import in all messages already in our email system, giving us access to information that had been up to that point difficult to retrieve," said Brown. "In addition it is easy to maintain and we appreciate that updates and enhancements are made in a timely fashion."

Pricing and Availability
The Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 are currently available in the U.S. and priced at $29,999 and $44,999 respectively with no per user licensing fees.

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