Campbell, Calif., March 12, 2009 Barracuda Networks Inc. today launched
the Barracuda Message Archiver 150 for small businesses. Capable of supporting
up to 75 users, the Barracuda Message Archiver 150 is priced at $1,999 with no
per user fees, making it the most affordable email and IM archiving solution
available for small businesses today.
In addition, the full Barracuda Message Archiver product line now features
Exchange stubbing for optimization of email server resources. With Exchange
stubbing, administrators save email server storage and bandwidth requirements by
moving email attachments from Microsoft Exchange to the Barracuda Message
Archiver.
The adoption of email and IM archiving technologies has grown beyond litigation
and compliance concerns and extended to solving practical, operational
problems, said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda
Networks. "With new capabilities focused on optimizing storage efficiencies and
a new model targeted at smaller organizations, we believe we are well-positioned
to expand the market for email and IM archiving."
Exchange stubbing for server optimization
With Exchange stubbing the Barracuda Message Archiver connects to Microsoft
Exchange servers to find emails with attachments that match policies, including
attachment size and message age. For emails that match the policy, the Barracuda
Message Archiver copies the messages and removes the attachments from the email
server, replacing the attachments on the email server with hyperlinks, or
stubs, to the attachments on the Barracuda Message Archiver.
The Barracuda Message Archiver Outlook Add-in ensures that the attachment is
handled correctly when stubbed emails are accessed or forwarded to another user.
The add-in retrieves the attachment and places it inline, ensuring that email
messages and attachments appear as they would prior to Exchange stubbing and
that the end user never has to leave the email client to retrieve the email
attachment. For users who do not have the Barracuda Message Archiver Outlook
add-in or when users are accessing stubbed email from Outlook Web Access, mobile
devices, or other email clients the formatting of the stub ensures that
attachments are still available through a simple hyperlink.
With Exchange stubbing, administrators can also realize the benefits of
efficient storage management and compliance satisfaction, without disrupting the
ease of access that the end user expects when looking for an email or its
attachment, added Pao.
Pricing and availability
Barracuda Message Archiver 150 is available now starting at $1,999 with no per
user fees. International pricing and availability varies depending on region.
Exchange stubbing is available with firmware version 2.0 at no additional charge
to current and future Barracuda Message Archiver customers. For more
information, please visit
www.barracudanetworks.com/archiver.
About the Barracuda Message Archiver
The Barracuda Message Archiver provides everything an organization needs to
comply with government regulations regarding message retention, disclosure, and
discovery in an easy to install and administer plug-and-play hardware solution.
Leveraging standard policies and seamless access to messages, email content is
fully indexed and backed up to enable administrators, auditors and end users
quick retrieval of any email message stored in an organizations email archive.
The Barracuda Message Archiver also features Exchange stubbing for server
bandwidth optimization and includes an email client add-in for seamless end user
access to email attachments. Backed by Energize Updates, delivered by Barracuda
Central, the Barracuda Message Archiver receives automatic updates to its
extensive library of virus, policy definitions to enable enhanced monitoring of
compliance and corporate guidelines, document file format updates needed to
decode content within email attachments, as well as security updates for the
underlying Barracuda Message Archiver platform to protect against any potential
security vulnerabilities.
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