Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) vs Datto Cloud Continuity comparison

Barracuda Networks and datto are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Barracuda Networks is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.6, while datto is ranked #20 with an average rating of 9.0. Barracuda Networks holds a 0.4% mindshare in CB, compared to datto’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Barracuda Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of datto users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Datto Cloud Continuity and Barracuda Email Gateway Defense compete in cloud-based data protection. Datto appears to lead in backup and disaster recovery, while Barracuda has an advantage in email security.

Features: Datto Cloud Continuity includes automatic backups, seamless integration, and comprehensive disaster recovery. Barracuda Email Gateway Defense offers robust email filtering, data leak prevention, and security protection against threats.

Room for Improvement: Datto Cloud Continuity could enhance its data restoration simplicity, address server communication issues, and improve its recovery ease. Barracuda Essentials can improve its dashboard functionality, expand its archival solutions, and refine its email handling during incidents.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Datto Cloud Continuity provides an intuitive interface with quick setup, allowing fast deployment. Barracuda Essentials supports a streamlined deployment model and focuses on strong customer service, facilitating smooth implementation.

Pricing and ROI: Datto Cloud Continuity emphasizes cost-effectiveness with competitive pricing, focusing on reducing downtime and data loss mitigation. Barracuda Essentials highlights value through enhanced productivity and comprehensive email security, justifying its pricing through threat prevention capabilities.

To learn more, read our detailed Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) vs. Datto Cloud Continuity Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Email Gateway Def...

Ranking in Cloud Backup

17th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Datto Cloud Continuity

Ranking in Cloud Backup

20th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Datto Cloud Continuity is 1.2%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials)	0.4%
Datto Cloud Continuity	1.2%
Other	98.4%

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Kelly Perry

Senior Software Engineer at Procter & Gamble

Email defenses have reduced phishing risk and now protect our remote workforce every day

Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) has had a very positive impact on our organization, especially since the pandemic with many remote workers. Our IT objective is 99.9% uptime with many redundant fail-safes in place. Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) helps to meet that objective by protecting the vast amount of email we receive on a daily basis. I can share specific metrics or results: we've reduced risk by 60% and increased visibility by 70%. Now we have peace of mind in our organization since we know our email is protected. Email protection has dramatically reduced attacks via spam, phishing, and malware in all sectors, enhancing protection and encryption of input and output and preventing data from being leaked from the internal network.

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TrevorSmith

Assistant Director, Network Operations at Premier Marine Insurance

Provides enterprise-level protection from ransomware attacks

Speaking about how the product is deployed in my company's business operations, I would say that it is an appliance with a critical infrastructure. In terms of data protection capabilities, the tool's ability to boot a device and have a separate network has saved the day for many of our company's clients who use the solution. If you have a collection of old servers, and if one of the old servers dies, you could be dead in the water if you cannot locally boot a server. Even the new gears in place can have an issue if people are not spending money on robust hardware tools, and replace them. It is necessary to have the local boot options if and when you have a hardware issue. The product brings the most value in the area of virtual boot when it comes to disaster recovery since it can boot up a version of the server from before an incident, which is helpful and allows your company to have a lower RPO or recovery point objective. It makes a big difference if you can have an RPO in hours rather than in days. The image-based backup functionality has revolutionized and impacted our company recovery time objectives since we deal in hours and not in days. The interface of the product is intuitive. I like the product's functionality that provides the ability to see everything at a glance, along with the alerting feature. Maintenance is required since certain drives die at times. In general, maintenance is required to deal with dead RAMs and hard drives. The former clients with small offices and the old Linux servers that used to die in production used to boot such servers with the help of Datto Cloud Continuity. The aforementioned process allows the clients to continue running their business while buying time to get replacement hardware, making a big difference that helps them reduce potential data loss or downtime. The local boot provided by the product saved the day for many of our company's clients. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. Though the tool is not inexpensive, it provides enterprise-level protection from ransomware. I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable functionality is their robust blocking feature, along with fundamental rules for our environment."

"Since implementing Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials), we have seen fewer phishing incidents; approximately 80% of phishing attempts have been mitigated."

"It makes it easier for customers to access emails during security incidents."

"I find Barracuda Essentials' dashboard incredibly valuable as it provides everything I need at a glance."

"Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) has had a positive impact on our organization, including a reduction in phishing, fewer P1 security escalations, a lower volume of user-reported spam, an improved email authentication posture, and a reduction in SOC triage workload."

"Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) has positively impacted my organization by reducing the risk of phishing attacks, which drives down cost exposure as a result of breaches."

"If a customer faces an email security issue, we'll do some initial troubleshooting. If the issue isn't resolved, we work with the Barracuda team for further assistance."

"Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) has positively impacted my organization, increasing email security by 70%, improving compliance and risk management, and providing adequate training, making our staff more aware and alert, as they check more often and report more spam emails."

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"Very friendly, since it visually facilitates the control and administration of the backups."

"When you compare it to other systems that require a fat client to be installed or to have several VMs setup just to configure the system, Datto stands head and shoulders above."

"The solution's reliability is one of its most valuable features...It is a very stable solution."

"The recovery time objective and recovery point objective were most valuable. It was easy to use, and it was easy to recover a file. I was the head of sales and a product evaluator for an MSSP, so I never had to deal with recovery from ransomware. However, I was confident that if ransomware had occurred, I would only lose a maximum of 59 minutes of data. The files were encrypted."

"The platform provides a faster backup process."

"They are laser-focused on bringing forth proven protection technologies and stopping cybercriminals from being able to breach, break, steal, or compromise your data."

"Datto has strong competition, but they succeeded in linking their service to the device. It's easy for managed service providers to sell and upsell products using their portal and the remote monitoring and maintenance."

"The solution has the capability to scale well."

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Cons

"Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) can be improved since the DLP is a bit inflexible and cannot handle custom additions."

"Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) can be improved, especially in terms of documentation."

"There Is room for improvement in the quarantine and user interface."

"Sometimes there are minor issues that can be frustrating, but not consistently bad."

"The improvement area for Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) would be reducing false positives via imported ML transparency and securing logic, along with faster log search and policy sync performance enhancements."

"Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) can be improved because the user interface is not very intuitive, especially for new users, and it is not easy to make my own landing page designs."

"Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) has extensive customization available, which is also the main challenge."

"They could implement scheduled reporting in the product."

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"They are now providing the device instead of selling it, while wanting their users to sign a three-year contract, and this is something which my clients don't like...I dislike the fact that signing a three-year contract is required."

"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud."

"To better integrate compatibility with other operating systems, in addition to Windows Server."

"I don't have any feedback to provide in terms of features that may be lacking."

"Datto's only shortcoming is RMM. They have a portal-based connection service like ConnectWise, but it does backups and keeps things running. Datto purchased Backupify and Kaseya bought Datto. If they upped the ante in their RMM, I could see them dominating the MSP space. At the end of the day, MSPs are responsible for networks, software, devices, and backup. Datto covers all these functions so they could offer a turnkey MSP solution."

"Right now the appliances have a functional limit of 50 protected servers each."

"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud. I love Datto, and I know they're on the right path, but I probably would've focused more on the operating system update management. When you go from the desk to the cloud or from the server room to the cloud, everything changes. Everything is different. You're not in control of your servers anymore. It is from the Active Directory management perspective and not from the perspective of zero-day attacks or other similar things. At the time, more focus on zero-day attacks and business email compromise (BEC) would've been a better protection factor than just educating about how many of these attacks have occurred."

"Datto chose to build their own cloud, instead of leveraging AWS, Azure or GCP. It looks, feels and behaves like a beta product (lacks maturity)."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product's price is higher than other vendors."

"It is cheaper compared to other products."

"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"As the company grew from business continuity—or what used to be called business BCDR—they brought on services. Certain services, such as SaaS protection, were a value-add, but you would expect to pay for them. They are not going to be free. It is just the life that you live when you're evaluating software vendors, partners, etc. There is going to be some form of a base offering, and then there are going to be different tiers that you need to get up to a better level."

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Top Industries

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Media Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Construction Company

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

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Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	1

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials)?

If a customer faces an email security issue, we'll do some initial troubleshooting. If the issue isn't resolved, we work with the Barracuda team for further assistance.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials)?

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing is that this tool is very cost-effective, but the price was increased around two years ago, which worries me for small organizations using Bar...

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What needs improvement with Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials)?

Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) can be improved since the DLP is a bit inflexible and cannot handle custom additions. It is either you turn on the group of regulations you wa...

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Overview

Barracuda Email Gateway Defense (Barracuda Essentials) offers comprehensive email security, archiving, and backup solutions. It safeguards businesses from phishing, malware, and spam with effective threat detection.

Barracuda Email Gateway Defense uses cloud-based technology to provide robust protection against email threats. Its extensive features cover encryption, archiving, and continuity, making it ideal for businesses seeking to bolster email defenses. The system is user-friendly and offers seamless integration with existing IT infrastructures, enhancing security without adding complexity to the workflow. While highly effective, some users suggest improvements in reporting capabilities and customization options to maximize its efficiency.

What are the key features of Barracuda Email Gateway Defense?

Advanced Threat Protection: Scans all incoming emails for malware and phishing attempts.
Data Loss Prevention: Prevents data breaches through automatic email scanning.
Email Continuity Service: Ensures email service is uninterrupted during outages.
Cloud-based Archiving: Provides secure archiving and retrieval for compliance.
Encryption: Secures sensitive emails through automatic encryption features.

What benefits or ROI should users consider?

Enhanced Security: Reduces the risk of cyber threats with real-time protection.
Compliance Assurance: Aids in meeting industry regulations with archival solutions.
Operational Efficiency: Simplifies management through automated processes.
Cost-effectiveness: Minimizes the need for additional security hardware.

Barracuda Email Gateway Defense is especially beneficial in industries handling sensitive information such as healthcare and finance, providing the necessary security and compliance measures. It integrates seamlessly into these industries' IT environments, offering reliable data protection and continuity assurance.

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Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs is much more than just cloud backup. MSPs can protect clients’ Windows-based computers from downtime and data loss and more importantly, rapidly recover data if disaster strikes.

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