Barracuda Intronis Backup Previous Solutions

Monica Kropp - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used Arcserve for tape backups. The switch to Barracuda happened prior to my inheriting this project, but I believe the Arcserve solution that we had was reaching end-of-life. We needed to look at a different solution.

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NB
Director of IT at a government with 51-200 employees

We were a lot smaller back then, and we had an on-premise tape backup. It was probably Iomega. We switched because of the cloud. It was just about streamlining and taking away a lot of pain points. Barracuda Backup is really easy in terms of maintenance, and I don't have to worry about changing tapes. It took a lot of the in-house burden away. It is almost like you set it and then forget it, whereas back then, you had to make sure that tapes are fine, and sometimes, tapes would fail.

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CJ
Co-Owner at Xtreme Works, Inc.

Barracuda is a very good solution. The only issue is it's a bit expensive. In terms of features and stability, it's one of the best.

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SH
President and CEO at a government with 51-200 employees

I have used several different other products in the past like Unitrends and other cloud-based backup solutions. They are all good options. The choice on which one to use depends on the use case for each business. 

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VB
IT Manager at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

Prior to this solution, we were using Veeam backup. We had a few issues with them in terms of scalability, so we were unable to continue using Veeam. This is the main reason we switched to Barracuda.

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Jean MauriceProsper - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Nettobe Group

We previously used a range of solutions including Symantec, CommVault and Acronis. The reasons we opted for the change was for :
1) Cost of solution (purchase , renewals, maintenance )

2) Ease of use - Previous solutions quite complex to manage and maintain, Restore in some cases was so complex and failed.

3) Customer support: Many issues to get support to provide assistance when requested. We had to wait for days, before getting a reply, and further days to actually get someone from the support team to give assistance.

4) Training: Barracuda offers free access to their Training center which provides full training and certification on the solution ! We can then be mostly independent of support and really go to them when the system is really not working !

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CK
Head of ICT Department at Dr. Nassau College

We have DPM from Microsoft. We are moving to the cloud, and we are using Barracuda for the cloud, and on-premise, we are still using DPM from Microsoft.

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GS
Owner at Avantius Technologies

We didn't previously use another solution. The way we handled backups before was to manually do it ourselves.

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NT
Operations Manager at Cybernaptics

Prior to using this solution, I was using Veritas Backup Exec.

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RA
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We resell, so we do sell some other competing backup systems to meet specific needs. We resell full disaster recovery solutions, for example. I can't offer Barracuda in that case. When clients are migrating from one site to another and they want a hot backup, we would use a different solution for that as well. But for standard backup requirements, we cover them pretty nicely with Barracuda.

Clients use Barracuda for one of two reasons. Either the low cost or to solve multi-branch issues. If a customer is managing ten appliances in ten different branches, it is very easy to explain the cost benefit and the benefit of zero management. 

We sometimes have a problem with some customers who fall under government regulation. They are generally not allowed to send any data outside the country. In that case, they have to continue with an on-premise solution unless Barracuda opens a cloud within the country, which is not likely.

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RT
CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have worked with similar products from other vendors and I think that Barracuda is easy to deploy and easy to manage, compared to some other products. The technical support is also very useful.

In terms of what they offer, backup solutions by different vendors are somewhat similar in functionality.

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