Barracuda Backup vs. Informatica Data Archive (legacy)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Barracuda Backup
Score 7.9 out of 10
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Designed to be simple to configure and manage, the scalable Barracuda Backup solution is offered via a capacity-based, all-inclusive subscription model allows you to pay for only what you need to protect today, avoiding large upfront hardware costs.N/A
Informatica Data Archive (legacy)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Informatica Data Archive is used to control data growth in production databases and retire legacy applications. It is a legacy product and will not receive further updates.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Barracuda BackupInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Barracuda Backup
8.9
37 Ratings
6% above category average
Informatica Data Archive (legacy)
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Ratings
Universal recovery8.030 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery8.532 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification9.632 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection8.025 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.334 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification8.935 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.036 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression10.037 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots9.128 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.521 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard8.423 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support8.823 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.223 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption9.019 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Barracuda BackupInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(37 ratings)
9.9
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.2
(7 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
If you are a small business with a few machines and your backups aren't of servers that are public facing. If you had to restore a server from backup, it would take a day at least. So, if the server being restored was public facing, that may impact customer relations.
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To manage users, go to the admin dashboard, here is a section for users. In this users section here you can see which users are configured and you have the ability to suspend a user. If you want to edit or add users, you need to go to the Organization section, then click on another user section there, which then gives you the ability to edit or add users.
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Pros
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Set and Forget. I rarely have to touch the Backup Servers. Once you specify your criteria, you really don't need to change it unless you have a physical change.
  • Alerts. When there are issues such as files failing to backup or a directory no longer present, you get an email giving you all the information you need. In addition you will typically get contacted by support about it.
  • Recovery is very simple. The restore browser is very good and it's just easy to find and restore data when you need it.
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  • Works well with curated data
  • Allows you to monitor data movements within an organisation
  • Advisable to use ILM if already using Informatica PowerCenter
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Cons
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • The pricing solution has gone from allowing on-premise ownership to forced cloud extortion. Basically, if you buy now you will be ok, but those of us who "owned" our solution previously are now forced to subscribe to the cloud model or be stuck with a brick.
  • Speed of recovery could be improved.
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Discontinued Products
  • As we are still piloting the product at our company at this time the feedback is highly limited.
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Likelihood to Renew
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Love the units
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Usability
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Dashboards and interfaces within Barracuda Backup are very easy to navigate, with clear success/warnings shown. Setting up backup jobs is probably one of the most simplest tasks - compared to competitors we trialed. Trouble shooting backup issues is also simple due to clear errors (VSS errors shown in a understandable format for example)
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Support Rating
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
They are always quick to get you routed to a tech support person and always get follow up after contacting them. Last experience was amazing, she adjusted my boxes and they perform even better. I cannot say enough about the support. We had some trouble with one of the windows servers leaving the volume shadow copy out there and would fail. They worked with us to adjust and get working. After that it has been months since I have had to do anything with the server to keep the backups running.
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Implementation Rating
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Work on a backup agent for Mac OS X or any Apple OS.
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Discontinued Products
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Alternatives Considered
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Each backup solution has its pros and cons, and each customer has their needs, and budget constraints. Barracuda Backup has helped us dramatically in the area of being able to provide customers a cost-effective solution, that's easy to manage and is one of those things you're not having to check on daily, or switch out backup tapes, or hard drives.
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Discontinued Products
[The] customer support is quite good. Cost also has another point to add, along with process integration and ease of using new tool.
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Return on Investment
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Countless positive impacts from being able to restore lost or deleted files - or even restoring an entire server.
  • Being able to restore files for users and allowing them to recover lost work or preventing them from having to redo files at any level is priceless. You can't accurately measure lost time of employees having to recreate files. Especially things like 3D drawings and multi-sheet spreadsheet.
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Discontinued Products
  • it is also fully integrated with all other AWS services
  • manages the entire life cycle of the Certificates by itself, so it will reduce your work by a really big amount
  • it can also be easily integrated with ELB and front-end cloud services.
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