We performed a comparison between Barracuda Email Protection and Mimecast Mailbox Continuity 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 Email Protection are flexibility and customization."
"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."
"The product is easy to deploy and maintain."
"The solution is straightforward to set up."
"Barracuda email protection is stable. I would give it a nine because of its strong cybersecurity features."
"The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."
"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."
"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 security is pretty good, and that's why we're going to upgrade to an even more advanced package. We used it when we had a power issue, and it works. It has been pretty reliable, and the support has been quite good."
"The Large File Send feature comes in handy when you have to send fairly large attachments."
"It has all the features required for distribution, such as the ability to mail."
"Mimecast has some good support services in place."
"We're now certain business-critical mail is perfectly protected in multiple ways."
"The most valuable feature of Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is real-time alerts."
"There is room for improvement, particularly in reaching out to technical support during deployment."
"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."
"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."
"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The price of the solution is expensive. It can improve by reducing the price."
"The solution is expensive in comparison to similar solutions."
"The interface and the documentation could be improved. They can also include some more training resources and content like video. While setting things up, I had to search for the information quite a bit. It took me time to find the correct way to do something. The information is there, but it is sort of all over the place. They can create a better help knowledge base or help portal. It retains your email for 45 days. They can maybe increase this duration."
"Technical support has been slower than it was in the past, likely due to the pandemic."
"The interface isn't the best. How everything works on the back end is confusing."
Barracuda Email Protection is ranked 3rd in Email Archiving with 12 reviews while Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is ranked 4th in Email Archiving with 6 reviews. Barracuda Email Protection is rated 8.8, while Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is rated 8.0. 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 Mimecast Mailbox Continuity writes "Provides peace of mind and expands well but needs a better interface". Barracuda Email Protection is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, TitanHQ SpamTitan, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Abnormal Security, whereas Mimecast Mailbox Continuity is most compared with Barracuda Message Archiver. See our Barracuda Email Protection vs. Mimecast Mailbox Continuity report.
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