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Barracuda Email Protection vs Veritas Enterprise Vault comparison

Barracuda Networks and Veritas are both solutions in the Email Archiving category. Barracuda Networks is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.8, while Veritas is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.7. Barracuda Networks holds a 31.2% mindshare in EA, compared to Veritas’s 5.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Barracuda Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Veritas users who would recommend it.
Barracuda Email Protection
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100% willing to recommend
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88% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

Veritas Enterprise Vault and Barracuda Email Protection compete in the email archiving and protection category. Veritas seems to have the upper hand in archive capabilities and indexing, while Barracuda excels in user-friendly deployment and robust email protection features.

Features: Veritas Enterprise Vault offers exceptional email archiving, robust indexing, and integration with Microsoft Office products. Barracuda Email Protection is favored for its spam blocking, AI-powered threat detection, and seamless integration with Microsoft 365.

Room for Improvement: Veritas needs better reporting, integration with cloud platforms, and simplified management. Barracuda could benefit from improved fraud detection, stronger third-party integration, and refined policy controls.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veritas Enterprise Vault's on-premises setup can be complex with reactive support. Barracuda, a cloud solution, is easier to deploy with responsive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Veritas is often seen as expensive but offers long-term savings by reducing storage demands. Barracuda is generally cost-effective, though prices vary, and improvements in licensing are anticipated.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Email Protection
Ranking in Email Archiving
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (15th), Office 365 Protection (5th)
Veritas Enterprise Vault
Ranking in Email Archiving
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
File Archiving (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Email Archiving category, the mindshare of Barracuda Email Protection is 31.2%, up from 21.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault is 5.1%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Email Archiving
 

Featured Reviews

LeeMiles - PeerSpot reviewer
Very good threat protection, spam filtering, and cloud backups
Considering it integrates with Azure, I would like to be able to effectively set up policies where people are by default included in certain settings. For instance, for email quarantine, I can't set up a global setting. Users must go through an induction session where I guide them in configuring quarantine alerts rather than having default settings based on group membership. This seems like an oversight since they already use Active Directory details. They should assign policies based on group membership, which configures these settings by default.
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Charles Nwaokukwu - PeerSpot reviewer
Support for data archiving and integration capabilities enhance data management
The GUI of Veritas Enterprise Vault is not friendly; the user interface can be quite convoluted for users or IT people who are not conversant with it. Even for professionals, it can be complex. Over time, if you get the hang of it, you'll understand it, but it's not something you can teach a user to quickly grasp. It's kind of complex. Veritas could do something to change this situation. I've given feedback quite a number of times through various channels, including during support calls. I remember trying to do a system state backup using our NetBackup feature, and I found out that Veritas NetBackup cannot back up a system state. Having numerous solutions instead of just one backup system can be quite unfriendly. They can back up other things such as databases and file servers, but when it comes to carrying a system state backup, it falls short. Honestly, Veritas Enterprise Vault's costing was one of the main reasons we dropped the integration to the cloud.
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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

"Barracuda email protection is stable. I would give it a nine because of its strong cybersecurity features."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage."
"The solution is straightforward to set up."
"The most valuable features of Barracuda Essentials are it's a trusted name and is rated very high on review sites. It blocks high percentages of spam and junk email and it's in the cloud. They have hardware appliances, but this is in the cloud. The solution is very effective at blocking malware and blocking spam and this is what we are looking for. There's not a whole lot of complexity, you want a solution that is very good at blocking out all of the unwanted emails."
"The beauty of Barracuda Email Protection is that it is easy to manage and simple to deploy."
"I'm quite satisfied with the graphical user interface for Barracuda products."
"We now have a secondary backup of Office 365 that's much easier to retrieve compared to Microsoft. If someone deletes something in Office 365, we can get it back within Office 365, but it's difficult. Barracuda is much easier. There is a lot less management needed using Barracuda. The management becomes much easier for Office 365 and it's no longer on-prem, so there are fewer hours managing on-prem devices, servers, and things of that nature. We don't have network appliances anymore for the backup of our information."
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"Veritas Enterprise Vault has its advantages; it does the work that it's supposed to do effectively."
"We use the solution to archive emails."
"The data retrieval process was seamless with Veritas Enterprise Vault"
"The indexing and searching features are the most valuable features of Veritas Enterprise Vault."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Enterprise Vault is the on-premise recall from your email into Outlook."
"Compared to other third-party products, the solution's most valuable features are its cost and security."
"The archive allows the customers to search any items as far back as five or ten years ago."
"The integration capabilities are second to none."
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Cons

"Two to three months back, we got fraudulent emails in which someone in the organization was being blamed."
"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."
"Barracuda Email Protection needs better reporting and more robust integration with security awareness training platforms and third-party solutions."
"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"The product must enable bulk user management."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"There is room for improvement, particularly in reaching out to technical support during deployment."
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"The file-level archiving is very important in Enterprise Vault 12 and this doesn't really exist in early versions."
"The GUI is not friendly. The user interface can be quite convoluted for a user or an IT person who is not conversant with Veritas Enterprise Vault to immediately grasp it."
"It's not so easy for a layperson or a new user to learn to use Veritas Enterprise Vault."
"The quality of support by Veritas has declined in the last year."
"The GUI is not friendly. The user interface can be quite convoluted for a user or an IT person who is not conversant with Veritas Enterprise Vault to immediately grasp it."
"Cost is high for Veritas Enterprise Vault."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault's cloud backup solution should include the journal archiving feature along with the standard licensing package."
"The solution is not user-friendly and the restoration is not fast. It's also tricky to get information from it."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing is moderate, where it is neither cheap nor expensive."
"The price of Barracuda Essentials is better than some of the competing products."
"We didn't have to pay a lot for the solution because we got it from a good vendor with a good user volume."
"Price-wise, this product is middle-of-the-road."
"The price is similar to that of Microsoft 365."
"We pay annually. They never charged us for anything else. And they were quite a bit under that $20,000 mark. It was $19,074. And they've been pretty good about not skyrocketing the price or anything like that. It has gone up. It's gone up to $24,000 in 2020."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"Barracuda licensing model is good."
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"The price for Enterprise Vault is around €100 per user."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an expensive solution."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault pricing is average, and I rate the solution a five out of ten for pricing."
"The pricing is very high."
"There is a license required for this solution and it is typically is paid annually."
"It's an affordable solution"
"Enterprise Vault is a little bit expensive."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
University
6%
Educational Organization
19%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Email Protection?
Barracuda Email Protection is easy to deploy and maintain. It doesn't require a specialized resource to manage this tool.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Email Protection?
Their list price is too high, but in India, the selling price is affordable at around $10 per user per year. Despite a list price possibly around $40 per user, their market price allows customers t...
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What needs improvement with Barracuda Email Protection?
Considering it integrates with Azure, I would like to be able to effectively set up policies where people are by default included in certain settings. For instance, for email quarantine, I can't se...
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What do you like most about Veritas Enterprise Vault?
Veritas Enterprise Vault is an archive solution for email and files.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Enterprise Vault?
On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten.
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What needs improvement with Veritas Enterprise Vault?
The problem is that licensing costs in the last two years are just growing higher and higher. Two years ago, compared to today, the costs rose almost four times, and that is why we are not happy wi...
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Also Known As

Barracuda Essentials
Enterprise Vault, Symantec Enterprise Vault
 

Overview

The popularity of Microsoft 365 means criminals test and design their attacks to bypass its native security features. And that means you need additional layers of defense. With Advanced Threat Protection enabled, Barracuda uses multiple layers of detection, including signature, static, and behavioral analysis, along with CPU-emulation sandboxing to accurately detect and block zero-hour targeted attacks and ransomware.

Traditional email gateways use static rules and policies—reputation analysis, block lists, and malicious payloads—to determine if an email is malicious.

Barracuda protects your Microsoft 365 inbox against evasive threats with a powerful AI engine that learns the unique communication patterns within your organization through access to internal and historical emails. Once it understands what legitimate emails looks like for each user, it can detect anomalies that signal malicious intent. This context-based detection is more effective at blocking targeted attacks, which are designed to bypass traditional rule-based email security.

Barracuda Networks

Veritas Enterprise Vault is a comprehensive information archiving solution that helps organizations manage and protect their data. It enables seamless archiving of emails, files, and other unstructured data, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. With advanced search and retrieval capabilities, it allows users to quickly access archived information.

Veritas
 

Sample Customers

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