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Barracuda Message Archiver vs Veritas Enterprise Vault comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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
9th
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
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
File Archiving (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Email Archiving category, the mindshare of Barracuda Message Archiver is 5.0%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault is 6.3%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Email Archiving Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Veritas Enterprise Vault6.3%
Barracuda Message Archiver5.0%
Other88.7%
Email Archiving
 

Featured Reviews

SK
Senior Manager at Havells
Easy to use with helpful email backup and search capabilities, but it needs to support SIEM integration
Integration with ArcSight would be very helpful. The user mailbox management is poor. For example, if I want to restore a complete mailbox then it doesn't keep the structure of the inbox intact. When the emails are restored, they are in a single folder that we have to extract and restructure. At times, the restoration doesn't work properly. It would be difficult to opt-out of the services because it would require the transfer of a lot of data from the cloud to on-premises storage. Technical support should be more available to the Indian market.
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 most valuable features are ease of use and performance."
"What I have heard from admins working on that environment is that they are very satisfied with Veritas Enterprise Vault, and they are also satisfied with what Commvault solution."
"The archive allows the customers to search any items as far back as five or ten years ago."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and performance. However, the performance can depend on the workload being used."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Enterprise Vault is the on-premise recall from your email into Outlook."
"From my experience, the most beneficial aspects of the product are the lower cost per terabyte and the security of old data with ease of access."
"We currently have and still have a very high investment gains when compared to our investment cost."
"Enterprise is a user-friendly product."
 

Cons

"The user mailbox management is poor."
"The user mailbox management is poor."
"It's a little bit more expensive than the others."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault should improve its indexing and customization options."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault's cloud backup solution should include the journal archiving feature along with the standard licensing package."
"The file-level archiving is very important in Enterprise Vault 12 and this doesn't really exist in early versions."
"One of the big disadvantages is that the product doesn't cover structured data"
"It requires a lot of maintenance; we had a lot of problems with it as services were falling down or failing, so it's not really easy to maintain."
"Frankly, three years ago, technical support from Veritas was better than now. Veritas was bought by an American company, and the quality is much lower than it used to be."
"The solution is not user-friendly and the restoration is not fast. It's also tricky to get information from it."
"Cost is high for Veritas Enterprise Vault."
 

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."
"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."
"The pricing is very high."
"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."
"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
19%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

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

No data available
Enterprise Vault, Symantec Enterprise Vault
 

Overview

 

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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