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Barracuda Message Archiver vs Veritas Enterprise Vault comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

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

Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Message Archiver
Ranking in Email Archiving
10th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Veritas Enterprise Vault
Ranking in Email Archiving
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
File Archiving (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Email Archiving category, the mindshare of Barracuda Message Archiver is 5.0%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault is 8.3%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Email Archiving Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Veritas Enterprise Vault8.3%
Barracuda Message Archiver5.0%
Other86.7%
Email Archiving
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2153010 - PeerSpot reviewer
DP Manager at a agriculture with 51-200 employees
Easy to use and doesn't require any maintenance
It's just a backup for email so that if people delete and/or try to remove stuff they shouldn't, we can find it It's easy to use. It's a little bit more expensive than the others.  It's like anything. You got to log in when you want stuff nowadays. Other than that, it's pretty good. I didn't…
Charles Nwaokukwu - PeerSpot reviewer
Head, Datacenter and IT Enterprise Applications at GTBANK
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Overall, the solution is good, easy to use, and reasonably priced."
"It's easy to use."
"The data retrieval process was seamless with Veritas Enterprise Vault"
"The stability is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Enterprise Vault is the on-premise recall from your email into Outlook."
"I use the solution to find data loss and restore the data."
"Organizations can streamline governance processes and improve compliance by utilizing automated classification to tag and categorize data."
"We have so many products, including Commvault and other products, that said, we identified Enterprise Vault as the best option for integrating with different products and different features."
"User behavior is very smooth."
"The search feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
 

Cons

"The user mailbox management is poor."
"It's a little bit more expensive than the others."
"The solution is not user-friendly and the restoration is not fast. It's also tricky to get information from it."
"One of the big disadvantages is that the product doesn't cover structured data"
"The product is a very complicated solution. It is not easy to upgrade and get alerts of issues. You have to check it all the time to see if there is an internal error."
"Dealing with personal information, such as documents that contain a personal number, personal ID or something like that should be improved. Sometimes it works poorly in that regard."
"The file-level archiving is very important in Enterprise Vault 12 and this doesn't really exist in early versions."
"The backup area needs improvement. I cannot perform application backup, and I am not able to repair the license."
"To give a quick calculation, one year of Veritas Enterprise Vault is more expensive than five years of CommVault."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They're a little bit more expensive than the others."
"We are satisfied with the pricing and the service is bundled so there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
"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."
"It's an affordable solution"
"Enterprise Vault is a little bit expensive."
"The price for Enterprise Vault is around €100 per user."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault pricing is average, and I rate the solution a five out of ten for pricing."
"There is a license required for this solution and it is typically is paid annually."
"The pricing is very high."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
17%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
6%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for Barracuda Message Archiver?
We use Barracuda Message Archiver to keep a copy of our users' emails, both inbound or outbound. Our goal in using it is that from a compliance perspective, we can provide access to our auditors. I...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Enterprise Vault?
I don't know if the solution is affordable or if it's still a bit expensive in comparison to other products.
What needs improvement with Veritas Enterprise Vault?
We just use NetBackup and appliances, and we don't use other solutions. We have NetBackup, and Backup Exec is a lower grade software that we don't utilize. We don't have Access Appliances. We don't...
What is your primary use case for Veritas Enterprise Vault?
The major use cases for Veritas Enterprise Vault are email and file acquisition.
 

Also Known As

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Enterprise Vault, Symantec Enterprise Vault
 

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Sample Customers

Alfa Romeo, Texas A&M University, Time Warner, Nintendo, Boeing 
Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Dell, HP, Cisco, Adobe, Symantec, SAP, EMC, Citrix, VMware, Accenture, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, NetApp, Nokia, Panasonic, Red Hat, Salesforce, Siemens, Sony, Toshiba, Twitter, Verizon, Visa, Vodafone, Walmart, Yahoo, ZTE
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