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Barracuda Message Archiver vs. Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AExchange Online Archiving from Microsoft is a tool that helps the user solve archiving, compliance, regulatory, and eDiscovery challenges. Hosted on Microsoft globally redundant servers, with IT-level phone support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Exchange Online Archiving is compatible with Exchange Server 2019, 2016, 2013, and 2010. It’s also available as an add-on service for mailboxes that are hosted online.

    $3

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Barracuda Message ArchiverMicrosoft Exchange Online Archiving
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    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    86%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Barracuda Message ArchiverMicrosoft Exchange Online Archiving
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.3
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Usability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Barracuda Message ArchiverMicrosoft Exchange Online Archiving
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Microsoft
    Microsoft has a variety of models and tiers available to choose from. Depending on the nature of your firm, you should seek the advice of a specialist. Also, if you're like most people and use Microsoft Office, ask about it. Having the ability to collaborate online while still saving your documents to SharePoint increases your overall productivity.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Archiving with journaling.
    • Search with WebClient.
    • Search with Add-In.
    • Stubbing.
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    Microsoft
    • Great granular-level management and backup of all Microsoft 365 mailboxes
    • Content search and investigation of mailboxes without modifying a user's password (without the user knowing)
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    Cons
    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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    Microsoft
    • Time to restore the mailings
    • To change the characteristics of the archive I need to communicate with the administrator
    • When the administrator eliminates the mail account it also eliminates the archives created
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Microsoft
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    Usability
    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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    Microsoft
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    Support Rating
    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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    Microsoft
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Microsoft
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    It was a lot cheaper, i mean a awfull lot.
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    Microsoft
    The Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving tools are the best with multiple Cloud capabilities which enables the smooth running of all the data processing projects and securing entire business data and easy transfer of any data size across the Cloud services. Archiving functions are also the effective ones with great data analytical capability.
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    Return on Investment
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • i had no negative impact.
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    Microsoft
    • Is included with exchange online plans at no extra cost, so why not use it?
    • Has helped solve some specific user requirements eg auto-delete emails older than a certain age, and auto move emails from certain folders after a period of time.
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