Alternatives to Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Jennifer Marsh
Archiving email is an essential aspect of modern computing. Email archiving solutions are designed to automate the archiving and subsequent search and retrieval of emails and other messages. By using a modern cloud archiving service, an organization can better meet regulatory compliance, respond to legal needs, reduce storage costs, and enhance data security.
As email and collaboration applications generate enormous amounts of sensitive corporate and personal data, choosing the right cloud-archiving solution is essential.
Here, we look at Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service and check out its features against TitanHQ ArcTitan email archiving.
What is Cloud Archiving, and Why is it Important?
As cloud computing becomes ubiquitous and affordable, Storage-as-a-Service provides an accessible way to archive corporate messages. A cloud archiving solution is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that provides the mechanism and functionality needed to archive long-held data in a safe and secure place. Cloud archive solutions handle all data types, including unstructured data like emails and messages created using other communication applications. These messages are then securely held in a central repository; access and retrieval of these messages is a core function. The centralization of a cloud archive system means that data from across multiple enterprise endpoints is brought together for easier management, maintenance, and access control.
Companies typically use cloud archiving to store emails and to ensure they are accessible for compliance or legal reasons. Regulations such as FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) SEC Rule 17a-4, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), and SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) require organizations to keep electronic communication archives.
Cloud archiving is often delivered as a service by a managed service provider (MSP) on behalf of enterprise clients. This delivery model makes deployment, management, and maintenance more accessible and cost-effective.
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Core Features of Cloud Archiving
Unlimited Email Storage
Using a centralized cloud database to store corporate messages means that the data is accessible anytime and from any location as long as the individuals are authorized to access it. Solutions like Exchange Server or Office 365 mailboxes have storage limits, and costs increase as more storage is required. Cloud archiving solutions like TitanHQ Emal Archiving save up to 75% on email storage space.
Ease of Retrieval During Litigation
If a company needs to provide evidence of communications during a legal dispute, cloud archiving allows data to be easily and quickly retrieved. Cloud archiving solutions offer comprehensive and accurate eDiscovery.
Centralized Access
Cloud-based email archiving provides central access to emails, attachments, and corporate messages. Centralized access ensures that legal and compliance teams can quickly access data and generate reports.
Scalability
Centralized cloud archiving solutions are highly scalable and require no on-premise hardware.
Security
Cloud archiving solutions enforce encryption during data transfer and storage to ensure security. Secure access to the stored communications is enabled using the principle of least privilege and robust authentication.
Both TitanHQ Emal Archiving and Barracuda Cloud Archiving Solution provide all of the above features. However, as always, the devil is in the details, and an evaluation must consider your specific needs and include comparative costs.
At a Glance: Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service vs TitanHQ ArcTitan Email Archiving
Before delving into the details, we’ve created an at-a-glance table comparing Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service and TitanHQ ArcTitan.
Feature
Audit
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Comprehensive audit.
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
Tamper-evident audit trails identify any unauthorized alterations to archived emails.
Feature
Speed of archive, search, and retrieve
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Statistics unknown.
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
ArcTitan load performance is for more than 200 emails per second from the email server.
Feature
Scalability
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Unlimited storage per user.
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
ArcTitan has no limits on email storage.
Feature
MSP delivery model supported
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Delivered by Barracuda branded MSP company BarracudaMSP.
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
It is comprehensive, including marketing support and a dedicated partner portal.
Feature
Data loss prevention (DLP)
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Yes
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
Yes
Feature
Encryption during transit and storage
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Yes
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
Yes
Feature
PST files removed
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Eliminates PST files Reduces the load on your mail servers.
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
Eliminates PST files. Reduces the load on your mail servers.
Feature
Storage space savings
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Statistics unknown
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
Saves up to 80% on email storage space. For example, reducing 1,000 GBs to 200 GBs. Reduces storage costs.
Feature
White-label branding available for MSPs
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Delivered by Barracuda branded MSP company BarracudaMSP.
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
Yes, built for MSP requirements.
Feature
Meets regulations
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Yes, it can meet multiple regulations impacting data retention, security, and availability.
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
Yes, it can be used to meet multiple regulations that impact data retention, security, and availability of FINRA record compliance.
Feature
On-site hardware required?
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
No
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
No
Feature
Support
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Separate purchase
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
Included in the cost of the ArcTitan license – no additional cost
Feature
Customer reviews on Capterra
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
4.8
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
4.7
Feature
Awards: Expert Insights
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Number 3 in top email archiving solutions
TitanHQ ArcTitan Emal Archiving
Number 1 in top email archiving solutions
Top Email Archiving Solution for businesses - Expert Insights.
Features of Barracuda Cloud Archiving and ArcTitan Email Archiving
Archiving and Retrieval
Barracuda Cloud Archiving
- Archives email messages and attachments, calendar appointments and tasks, instant message (IM) conversations, and other content from on-premise and online Office 365 versions of Lync and Skype for Business.
- Provides a Microsoft Outlook 365 add-in
- Can be used to eliminate PST files.
ArcTitan Email Archiving
- Archive email messages and attachments, instant messages, and related content. Archiving is automated so that all sent and received emails are instantly stored in the cloud repository.
- Provides a Microsoft Outlook 365 add-in
- Can be used to eliminate PST files.
eDiscovery and Search
Barracuda Cloud Archiving
- Retention policies can be customized to reflect compliance requirements.
- Legal hold requests can be configured to reflect the requirements of a legal dispute.
- Fast search and retrieve.
- Configurable search limits.
- Full audit trail.
ArcTitan Email Archiving
- Retention policies are highly granular and customizable to reflect compliance requirements.
- Support customizable legal hold requests - vital for many legal disputes.
- Search is high-speed and highly configurable. In a test to find 2000 items from 10 mailboxes, ArcTitan took less than one second to retrieve the emails.
- There are no search limits, and 50,000 item export limit (can be exceeded via support)
- Full audit trail.
Security
Barracuda Cloud Archiving
- AES 256-bit encryption at rest and in transit
- Public key cryptology (RSA 1024)
- Redundant storage
- Data stored in the local region
- Role-based access control
- Disaster recovery.
ArcTitan Email Archiving
- AES 256-bit encryption is used at rest, and TLS encryption is used for messages that are in transit.
- Permission-based access to controls to enforce least privilege access to archived data.
- Data integrity assured: Content is not editable, and deletion requires authorization by a data guardian.
- Passwords are hashed and encrypted
- Handles certificate management
- Antivirus scanning performed on emails.
- Active Directory and basic authentication for remote browser access.
- LDAP, Google, and iMail authentication are supported.
- Windows single sign-on authentication (NTLM v2)
- Disaster recovery.
Management and Delivery
Barracuda Cloud Archiving
- Cloud-based, easy to deploy and manage.
- Integrates with Active Directory and LDAP
- Hosted in Barracuda Cloud and can be delivered by Barracuda MSP, which is an MSP-dedicated business unit of Barracuda Networks.
ArcTitan Email Archiving
- Cloud-based, easy to deploy and manage.
- Integrates with Active Directory and LDAP
- Ideal for delivery by an MSP.
ArcTitan vs Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service Pricing
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
$3.90 per user/month or $46.80 per user/year.
ArcTitan
$2.80 per user/month or $33.60 per user/year. ArcTitan is 28% less expensive than Barracuda Cloud Archiving Solution.
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
The minimum number of users is 25 = $1170 subscription cost per year on an auto-renewable contract.
ArcTitan
Pricing drops as the number of users purchased increases. Educational discounts available.
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
For a medium-sized business with 250 users, the annual cost = $11,700.
ArcTitan
For a medium-sized business with 250 users, the annual cost = $8,400.
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Barracuda also offers a Premium Support package for their cloud archiving solution. This is charged at $2,880 per year. The support is 24x7 for 1, 3, or 5-year terms.
ArcTitan
TitanHQ technical support is integrated into the pricing structure. Customers have access to a dedicated support team without any additional charges.
TitanHQ offers flexible monthly pricing options to cater to your needs and budget. Notably, TitanHQ technical support is integrated into the pricing structure. Customers have access to a dedicated support team without any additional charges.
ArcTitan is 28% less expensive than Barracuda Cloud Archiving Solution.
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Why Companies Choose ArcTitan
- ArcTitan was voted a top email archiving solution by Expert Insights.
- ArcTitan is one of the best six email archiving solutions by NameHero.
- Top five email archiving solutions 2024 by 6sense.
- ArcTitan is one of the best email archiving solutions by Geekflare.
- Best email archiving to try in 2024 by ShareArchiver.
What Do Actual Users Say About Barracuda and ArcTitan?
One of the best ways to help choose one solution over another is to read reviews from real users. One of the great things about these reviews is that they are publicly accessible and often show details that are hard to capture unless you’ve used a solution for some time. Below are some pros and cons offered by real-world users of Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service and TitanHQ ArcTitan:
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service
Pros
Pros “We
Cons
“We
Pros
“I have a barracuda appliance, which works very well. Though I will be exploring if it would be better to move to Mimecast since I already use them for my email filtering / security.”
Cons
“Trying to export emails in bulk is a nightmare. The process seems to be deliberately designed to be difficult to make leaving impossible...”
Pros
“Barracuda provides an easy to use solution that is MSP friendly for any company size... The cost and bundling constantly change, but the features are not changing very much.” [3]
Cons
“...we have an on prem Barracuda Message Archiver, the appliance itself works fine and does what it is supposed to. The issue we are running into with it is we are outgrowing the storage of the device and there is no way to increase the storage...” [4]
- [1] Reddit Review, [2] Reddit Review, [3] G2 Review, [4] Spiceworks
TitanHQ ArcTitan Email Archiving
Pros
Arctitan email archiving will fit nicely into office 365 and is affordable and very fast” Microsoft 365 integrated and automated with fast email search speeds with ArcTitan. Support will provide a free demo. [1]
Cons
“Some users have difficulty finding emails, but they can always be found.” [2]
Pros
“We have a couple of federal customers using ArcTitan - it
Cons
“It isn
Pros
ArcTitan is that tool that you need to keep your emails secure as well as creating more room. It allows you to archive all the emails with a strong encryption scheme to ensure their safety. It
Cons
“The setup took a little longer than we liked.”
Get Started with ArcTitan Email Archiving Solution
ArcTitan is Easy to Set Up and Cost Effective! Our support team will work with your IT staff or service provider to get your email securely duplicating your emails to ArcTitan
- We provide step by step instructions for configuring your email server to duplicate your emails, or
- We can work with your IT department or email service provider directly to manage deployment for you.
- Set and forget - once your email server is configured there is nothing more to worry about.
- Free demo - so you can be sure that everything works as expected, and is easy to use.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is ArcTitan?
ArcTitan is a cloud-based email and non-email message content archival solution. ArcTitan is built to centralize archived content, making it fast to archive and retrieve data, as needed. ArcTitan is highly scalable and cost effective and can be delivered using an MSP.
What is Barracuda Cloud Archiving Solution
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Solution is a centralized SaaS platform for archiving emails and other non-email content, like instant messages. It is fast to archive messages and retrieve data. As a centralized, cloud-based solution, the Barracuda Cloud Archiving Solution can be centrally deployed using the Barracuda dedicated MSP service.
Is ArcTitan Secure?
ArcTitan prides itself on exemplary security. Encryption protects data both during storage and as emails and messages are transmitted. Access control to stored messages is robust, using the principle of least privilege and strong authentication to manage permissions.
Is Barracuda Cloud Archiving Solution Secure?
The Barracuda Cloud Archiving Solution uses encryption to store messages and transit messages during archiving and retrieval. Access control is robust, and strong authentication can be used.
How Fast is ArcTitan?
ArcTitan is super-fast. Searching 30 million emails takes less than a second.
How fast is the Barracuda Cloud Archiving Solution
High-speed search and retrieval. Speed stats are unknown.
What Types of Regulatory Compliance Require Email Archiving?
Archiving of communication data is a requirement for several regulatory compliance legislation and laws:
Under the UK Data Protection Act (DPA), companies must be able to quickly retrieve data as requested by individuals.
EU GDPR: citizen rights cover many aspects that can impact an email archiving solution. This includes quickly removing held data, including emails (right to erasure).
FINRA and SEC Rule 17a-4 require financial services organizations to keep an archive of their electronic communications, including email.
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) states that to comply, "specialized software is installed that provides the "electronic paper trails" necessary to ensure SOX compliance.
Is there a Barracuda Cloud Archiving Solution Limited Trial?
A 14-day free trial version is available for Barracuda Cloud Archiving Solution.
Is ArcTitan Available as a Limited Trial?
Yes, sign up for a free trial here.