Barracuda Message Archiver vs. Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)

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.

This appliance is well suited for organizations that have a need to monitor, moderate, or log social networking site use or the use of any website. It is a very solid tool for any information security department to have at their disposal.

Incentivized

• Archiving with journaling.
• Search with WebClient.
• Search with Add-In.
• Stubbing.

Incentivized

• Discovery: It allows for easy discoveries by the compliance and cyber security departments.
• Ethical walls: This keeps certain departments from talking to each other.
• Very granular control. This is a big product meaning you can get very detailed with it.
• Once it's configured and running, we hardly ever have any issues.

Incentivized

• 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.

• Its configuration options were very large and required a good deal of time to learn all of the various settings.

Incentivized

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!

Incentivized

It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.

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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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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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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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It was a lot cheaper, i mean a awfull lot.

This was the only appliance of its kind that I have used. Other devices have different capabilities for web filtering such as the checkpoint firewalls, but none of them offered the overall solution that was deployed with this product at that time.

Incentivized

• i had no negative impact.

• Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.

Incentivized