Barracuda Message Archiver vs. Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving

For every company which is too big for MailStore. MailStore is much cheaper and easier...so mostly enough for 5 to 20 people companies. But for all bigger companies with 200 plus users it is the right solution. Please be sure, that it is not easy to get it running. But when it runs, it is mostly stable.

Incentivized

Native solution. No third-party integration is required. Rock-solid. Actually many features require no extra cost (unless you want to use In-Place Hold / Litigation Hold) If you use Microsoft 365's Exchange Plan, or other similar Microsoft 365 products, I don't see any reason why you should not use this.

Incentivized

• easy implementation
• retention policies in the archive
• integration on the client.

• Automatic archival of mail based on criteria.
• Keep mailboxes to a manageable size.
• Avoid having to manually delete older mail or export to PST.

Incentivized

• In Archiving there should be a "Header only" download for users with offline stores.
• Single sign-on in WebClient.
• Single sign-on in Outlook Add-In.
• More performance to the boxes.

Incentivized

• Only its training curve is not that short.
• To protective large amount of data may be trick to some users.
• The import of big data capability can be still be advanced.

Incentivized

It is that easy. Set and forget and everything is just working.

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

For us it is important that it is stable. Because of this we thought it is a good idea to buy a clustered station. Barracuda can do this and we bought 2 1050 boxes and linked them. At the end the price was also okay...we also evaluated Symantec and at the end both were candidates but Barracuda made better price.

Incentivized

One of the advantages of Microsoft Exchange Online is that it eliminates the need for users to use a variety of online tools and programs for different functions. With a single domain, I'm able to supply all my employees with cross-platform email addresses. We can simply sync our calendars, which makes it easier to work together.

Incentivized

• Long term archiving is good.
• Integrating of many PSTs cost extra money for PST Enterprise. This should be included.

Incentivized

• I think the solution does not produce a real impact in the organization
• I do not think that we have a real ROI
• It does not change the overall business objectives

Incentivized