Barracuda Message Archiver vs. Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Barracuda Message Archiver
Score 7.3 out of 10
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The 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
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Exchange 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
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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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Small Businesses
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Score 8.6 out of 10
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Barracuda Message ArchiverMicrosoft Exchange Online Archiving
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(2 ratings)
8.5
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
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.
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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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Alternatives Considered
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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