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Arctera Enterprise Vault vs. Barracuda Message Archiver

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    Arctera Enterprise Vault

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AArctera Enterprise Vault is a file archiving option.N/A

    Barracuda Message Archiver

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AThe Barracuda Message Archiver is designed to help organizations reduce email storage requirements, meet demanding compliance requirements, and address e-discovery requests easily and effectively. Integration with the Barracuda Cloud provides long-term email storage and backup.N/A
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    Arctera Enterprise VaultBarracuda Message Archiver
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    Arctera Enterprise VaultBarracuda Message Archiver
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Enterprises
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Arctera Enterprise VaultBarracuda Message Archiver
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (9 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Arctera Enterprise VaultBarracuda Message Archiver
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloud Software Group
    I recommend Enterprise Vault, especially over native Exchange archiving when: 1. You have, or may need litigation holds and searches 2. There is a need to archive and set defined retention periods for Journaling 3. You have lots of duplicate large emails that you want to get deduplication of 4. You need/ want to be able to search attachment in addition to emails 5. You want or need Litigation searches or archive retention to be handled by a team separate from your Email team
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    This is the perfect solution for a quick implementation of archivation. You configure it once and it keeps on going. Users do not need to interact to archive, only to find things back.
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    Pros
    Cloud Software Group
    • EV FSA had 2 stubbing options. We ended up using the IE shortcut as the stub replacement on the file system. In the DFS environment using DFSR the IE shortcuts allowed us to quickly and easily archive the data while allowing users to still access their data via the web or stub format. We were also able to exclude certain folders from archiving like the dfsrprivate folder. The newer versions of EV 11 and up have a better user interface to access this content from the web.
    • EV SharePoint implementation was pretty simple for us. Document Library archiving was pretty seamless. Archiving the different versions in sharepoint also helped further reduce total cost of storage.
    • EV Exchange was a good addition to our archiving portfolio. In our case we did not use the stubbing mechanism. Instead, we used the vault cache methodology. We had the option to pull down the full archive versus just the header information. The concern at the time was how quickly we could update the vault cache on the client. We ended up scaling out our EV environment to ensure the push of data could get to all our clients since we were in the middle of a notes to exchange migration. Overall I was impressed with Vault Cache and its capabilities. I also liked the ability to manage the Vault Cache and perform resets where necessary from the web browser interface.
    • We had EV FSA, SharePoint and Exchange as one single environment so we benefited from overall single instances of a file. Our backend systems were Netapp which we enabled deduplication for further improve storage savings. EV had a good SQL Reporting mechanism for Archiving and plenty of good canned reports.
    • Speed of archiving data was pretty fast.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Archiving with journaling.
    • Search with WebClient.
    • Search with Add-In.
    • Stubbing.
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    Cons
    Cloud Software Group
    • The search function in the vault does not work very well.
    • Cost. If not planned diligently, it might add to the overall cost.
    • Not easy get a expert to address the issue fast.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • the folder structure of the mailbox is harder to keep up with
    • it is a bit confusing when you search for non email items, like contacts.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloud Software Group
    Symantec Enterprise is one of the best in the industry. We have already deployed their product to thousands of devices in the company and it would be a huge project to go through and change to an alternative product. We have also had much luck in dealing with their customer support. They have been very pleasant to deal with and their technical support has been quite knowledgeable in fixing our issues. This leaves us with very little reason to switch to a new product. We would have to see a significant amount of cost savings to switch to an alternative that offers all the same features and modules.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    I would give a ten...but I don´t know the benefit in 2 years between Barracuda in Cloud and Microsoft in Situ Mailarchive. Lets see then!
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    Usability
    Cloud Software Group
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    The product is good but for this specific product there are often some technical problems. Mostly support in Vienna can solve them soon. The development is very, very slow. I have asked for some changes. They gave the okay to make it with a feature request...but 3 years later there is still no code for my problems. Not even one feature request was done.
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    Support Rating
    Cloud Software Group
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    The support in Vienna is very, very great. They are fast and can support almost all problems by themselves. Especially Mr. Michael Holzer is a very high specialist and you can ask him almost everything. Just write a mail to emeasupport and you will be sure, that some minutes or hours later you will get a kind and professional call.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cloud Software Group
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Think about using offline archives. They make a lot of trouble. Better train your users to use the Outlook Addin Search without using offline archives, which need a lot of power, network and harddrive space. Headers only functionality was promised years ago but is still not implemented.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloud Software Group
    I haven't research any other software against Enterprise Vault. Office 365 automatically has archiving capabilities that we use in the cloud. In comparison to Office 365, I'd say Office 365 comes out on top. For one thing, we essentially don't have to manage it. It also seems to preform better. However, Enterprise Vault does very well if you have an on-premise email solution.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    It was a lot cheaper, i mean a awfull lot.
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    Return on Investment
    Cloud Software Group
    • Helps on the data management life-cycle, moving unused data to cheaper storage and/or deleting it after some time, if required.
    • Also helps reducing the amount of data to be backed up on the active array.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • i had no negative impact.
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