We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Google Vault based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Archiving solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"I'm quite satisfied with the graphical user interface for Barracuda products."
"The archiving and search features are very good."
"The solution is straightforward to set up."
"Barracuda email protection is stable. I would give it a nine because of its strong cybersecurity features."
"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."
"The product is easy to deploy and maintain."
"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of Google Vault is its reliability."
"You can retrieve any type of data; for example, if a user accidentally deletes data, as an admin with access to Google Vault, you can easily restore the deleted data."
"In my opinion, the search functionality is the best feature. With Google Vault, we can quickly search for any email within Gmail accounts. And then we can get further information, such as if you want the full header or want to know any extra details about the emails."
"Search feature is valuable for our customers."
"The audit part of the tool is the most useful for me."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"My impression is that the initial setup process is not that difficult."
"The most valuable features are automatic document and email retention."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"The product must enable bulk user management."
"The customer service and support could be improved if the support were available directly in Europe. Currently, the support is often managed from India, so we sometimes need to wait due to the time zone difference. It would be quicker and better if the support were provided by European staff."
"They could simplify the licensing and the pricing."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"Google Vault lacks speed."
"Although it does a good job of searching through data and exporting it, I feel that Google Vault should have more export options available to the user. As a reseller, our customers demand a lot from their Google products, and exporting is one area where there's a lot of improvement needed."
"My personal opinion is that Google Vault could improve if they could have a similar version to Microsoft 365 where you can have an eDiscovery manager account. With this, you can separate a regular person from an organization and just transfer the specific files."
"It would be nice if Google would let us download the data in different formats."
"So, when doing a search, perhaps in some instances when you use terms, the information is not very precise in the sense that I'm not getting what I'm looking for. And in some instances, the information, not all the time, but in some instances, it might not be accurate. For example, when doing a search, if you use too many terms, it might not return any results."
"The price of the solution could improve and the search could be easier."
"eDiscovery could be improved with additional information and an easier way to retain it."
"Google Vault needs to improve its data export timing because sometimes, it takes a very long time to export the data."
Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 3rd in Email Archiving with 14 reviews while Google Vault is ranked 1st in Email Archiving with 11 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Google Vault is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda Email Protection writes "Set-it-and-forget-it type of product that doesn't require a lot of management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Vault writes "Capabilities in data management, eDiscovery, backup solutions, and ensuring data security and accessibility for admins". Barracuda Email Protection is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, TitanHQ SpamTitan, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Perception Point Advanced Email Security, whereas Google Vault is most compared with Microsoft Purview eDiscovery and Commvault Cloud. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Google Vault report.
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