Barracuda Email Security Gateway Scalability

WalidChowdhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Operations at BD

It offers excellent scalability, and it is well-suited for businesses of medium size. I would rate it ten out of ten.

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Robert Melendez - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Information Technology at Makeready

Barracuda is fully scalable. It's an enterprise solution that can handle a few hundred boxes to millions.

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MA
Director Technical at CAD CAM Center

The solution is used by more than 2,000 users.

I rate the scalability of Barracuda Email Security Gateway a nine out of ten. 

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Barracuda Email Security Gateway
April 2024
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Sameer Narayan - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Investment FIji

We have between 45 and 50 users.

It is pretty easy to scale. In the event that you want to increase the number of users, you can always do so. All you have to do is buy additional licenses. 

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Carlo Bertini - PeerSpot reviewer
It consultant and Project Manager/ CTO technology officer at Cabar at Cabar SRL

Scalability is a nine out of ten because it's in the cloud, and it can scale and improve the solution immediately.

Around eight to ten companies use it, and there are possibly thousands of protected email addresses.

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Furqan Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Pronet

Barracuda scales as well as FortiMail. You can scale up based on the number of users per box and the email receiver.

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MQ
Assistant Manager, Information Technology Systems at Getz Pharma

We have a model that supports 5,000 users. We currently have 3,500 users. We have room to scale. 

The solution does work fine with a large number of users. 

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Phakedi Mphela - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at Brilliant telecommunications

In terms of scalability, I can say it is an okay solution. Barracuda Email Security Gateway offers good AI functionalities, but sometimes, in my company, we have seen a lot of false positives with the product.

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Jamie Liu - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is scalable. It's easy to expand. 

We have about 2,000 people using the solution. 

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AM
Senior Account Manager at National Bank of Egypt

We have 12 customers using the solution.

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Gayan Ranaweera - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at Fentons Limited

We have 5,000 users using this solution.

I rate the scalability of Barracuda Email Security Gateway an eight out of ten.

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Saad Zarkout - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at BUTEC s.a.l.

Barracuda Email Security Gateway is a scalable solution.

We have approximately 500 people using the solution.

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AbdulHannan - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at Pronet

The solution is very scalable.

We deployed the solution on different company and customer sites.

We’ve around nine to ten customers using the solution.

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AV
Network Administrator at Ras Al Khaimah International Airport

We have 100 users using Barracuda Email Security Gateway.

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Igor Gutierrez - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Officer & DPO - Data Protection Officer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Because we use the on-premises version, we don't have many options when it comes to scalability. But in our headquarters, we have the same solution working at the same time in two different data centers for availability.

We have plans to update to the next version, preferably the cloud version, where we can have more options for using the other resources and layers that Barracuda offers. We don't have access to those today on the version we have.

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Roy Bolaños - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Service Staff at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

I rate the scalability of Barracuda an eight out of ten.

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KR
IT Manager at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

I would rate the scalability of this solution a 10, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best. Currently, there are about 175 users of this solution in our company.

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Anuraj Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at SNSIN

The Barracuda Email Security Gateway is scalable when in the cloud.

We are using devices that support 5,000 users. We have been hiring more employees now that the lockdown from covid is slowing down. 

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SK
Senior Manager at Havells

Barracuda Email Security Gateway is a cloud solution, therefore it is highly scalable.

Everyone in our company is using this solution. It is protecting 10,000 users' inboxes. We do not plan to increase users.

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RA
General Manager at Gemakom

The scalability is pretty granular. For example, 80p protection and cloud protection, link protection, anti-phishing, you can buy it all separately. You buy the original box and then you can buy afterward the additional security features.

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Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cyber Defense & Offensive Security at Habib Bank Limited
Damodharan R - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at I A M IT Technologies LLC

The solution is very much scalable. We have ten customers in the Middle East and five customers in India.

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Binoob John - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner/Owner and Director of Human Resources at Up arrow Systems

I would rate it eight out of ten. 

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HS
Director at Dynamic Computer Services

In terms of scalability, we haven't had any issues. We have more than 100 users. There are a couple of administrators but most of them are end-users.

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Lahiru Somasiri - PeerSpot reviewer
Trainee Engineer - Systems & Security at Connex Information Technologies

It is a scalable solution as it is hosted in the cloud. 

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Zubair Ahmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Chief Manager at Arcil

For the moment the solution is good. It is scalable. 

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Mohammed Shah Newaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant General Manager at CoLoCity

Scalability depends on the ability of the system. 

The scalability in Barracuda Email Security Gateway works separately in other platforms. If you think about virtualization technology, that works another way. You can make it scalable. If you have a 1,000 VM capacity in a virtual infrastructure, you can scale it by adding other nodes, physical hosts, memories, hard disks, etc. You can have a 2,000 capacity by keeping other infrastructure or servers online. Barracuda Vx300, Vx400, Vx600, Vx800, and Vx900 have their own capacity. For example, Barracuda Vx600 has a 10,000 users capacity. Whereas, Vx800 has a 22,000 user capacity and Vx900 has a 30,000 user capacity. Therefore, if you want to scale out, you need to buy a new version.

If we want to use the capacity for 22,000 users, we would need to purchase the license for the Barracuda Vx800 model, then download and install it. So, there is an option for backing up our existing solution in the Barracuda Cloud. After moving the backup to the Barracuda Cloud, we can restore the backup to another device and the configuration is done instantly. While Barracuda is not 100% scalable, it does give flexibility to restore your old configuration.

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KA
Sophos Certified Product Architect at Softech Microsystems

Most of our clients are enterprise-level businesses. We also provide the solution to businesses with 50 to 100 users. Barracuda Email Security Gateway can be offered to big enterprises or the financial sector with sensitive data and clients with 10 to 15 users.

I rate Barracuda Email Security Gateway ten out of ten for scalability.

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BJ
DP Manager at a agriculture with 51-200 employees

We have 160 email boxes, so we're not a huge company. Barracuda scalable enough for our needs. 

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MuhammadIshaq Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Administrator at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable. You can scale up or down the hardware appliances as per your license.

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Mohankannan Ramadoss - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Manager at Digitaltrack

I rate Barracuda Email Security Gateway an eight out of ten for scalability.

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KM
Computer Networks and Systems Support Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 11-50 employees

I believe that Barracuda Email Security Gateway is scalable. We didn't make many changes to the architecture. But I believe it is scalable.

We have a small IT team of three to four people.

We have small IT teams and approximately 50-60 business users. There are only three or four people who are directly involved with the product.

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RM
Technical Manager at Sarkar Group

The scalability is quite good. If a company needs to scale it out, they can do so. It's not too hard to expand it. We haven't had any issues with scalability so far.

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DD
CIO at a government with 51-200 employees

It scales quite well as far as I can tell. I've got a box that is more than adequate for my environment. I've have about 250 end users so I'm not huge environment. We're a municipality, and all end user email routes through Barracuda regardless of which department they are in. 

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FR
Founder CEO at Waterdog Computer Works

Scalability is very, very easy. We have over 40 clients with multiple end-users currently using it, so it has already proven to be very scalable.  

Primarily the people using the product are actually the end-users. They could be CFOs, CEOs, company presidents, office managers — the whole gamut of employees use the product if they use the network. We are an MSP, so we are literally servicing the whole range of different companies and different end-user needs with pretty high volume capability.  

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SS
System Administrator at Subisu Cablenet Pvt. Ltd.

Its scalability is good for our environment. We have around 1,500 to 2,000 email users.

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CK
Network Specialist at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would say that this specific appliance is not scalable. While the product, overall, is scalable, we would have to accomplish this by moving up to a different model.

We have approximately two thousand email users who are using the filtering, blocking, and quarantine features. We receive about ten thousand pieces of email per day.

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MN
IT Administrator at SPSP

The solution is scalable. 

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AH
Head Information Technology Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It's not a scalable product. If we want to scale it then we have to change the device, because it is on-premises. It is not a cloud-based solution.

We have 2400 users in our organization.

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KA
Deputy Manager IT Operations (Senior System Administrator) at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

You cannot add to this device, so if you want to upgrade then you have to replace it. Each model has a bit of a margin and if you choose it properly then you will not have any problem.

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MS
Presales Network & Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is scalable. You can start with a VM or hardware. The hardware is not really scalable, but the VM is scalable. Most vendors are scalable in terms of VMs.

I have about 15 to 20 customers of this solution, and they seem happy.

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SS
Senior IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

There has not been any problem with the scalability of the solution. We have approximately 600 users using the solution in my organization. We have plans to increase usage in the future by 100.

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AJ
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The product is scalable by choosing the right plan. If you need to scale up or down, that is possible. Pricing will change accordingly.

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SM
Insolvency Practitioner and Director at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

We have 18 of us who are using this product.

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MB
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Our clients are enterprise-level businesses, government bodies, and other institutions. We have not received feedback on any major issues as they have tried to scale up or add on to their environment.

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it_user8769 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology and Information Systems Manager at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

For our needs, it's definitely very scalable. They have much larger organizations on that service as well. Everyone in my organization uses it. All my email goes through a filtering process.

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DS
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

This solution is stable and reliable. 

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SS
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is scalable.

We have 10 to 15 customers using this solution.

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Buyer's Guide
Barracuda Email Security Gateway
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Barracuda Email Security Gateway. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.