Barracuda Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

Gartner defines digital communications governance and archiving (DCGA) solutions as designed to enforce corporate governance and regulatory compliance, and derive insights from an evolving number of digital communications tools utilized by organizations. For the various communications tools in use across the enterprise, DCGA solutions enable consistent policy management and enforcement, reveal new data insights, and provide reporting capabilities of their use.
Organizations utilize DCGA solutions to proactively manage, monitor, collect and archive communications content. They are critical to an organizations’ efforts to meet a growing number of regulatory compliance mandates and an expanding scope of organizational communications governance and data insights.
Compliance requirements include monitoring, oversight, audits and investigations for regulated industries such as financial services and health sciences. They also extend to investigation requirements of the public sector to respond to public records requests. Corporate governance requirements include employee conduct and handling of sensitive data in the use of digital communication tools.

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Barracuda Message Archiver

ArchiveOne(Legacy)

Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service

View Archive (Legacy)

Barracuda

Network Administrator

Message archiver is a very valuable too. We've been using it since the on prem models were introduced.  We now use the cloud version w/in Barracuda cloud control.  The message archiver is fantastic and in some aspects, we'd be lost without it. 

Barracuda support is ALWAYS one step above other companies.

50M - 250M USD

<50M USD

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees

250M - 500M USD

500M - 1B USD

1B - 3B USD

3B - 10B USD

30B + USD

Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees

It Manager

Usamos este producto como conexión , segura para dar servicio a nuestro cliente. No es malo pero es de los que menos me gusta para este tipo de conexiones.

We use this product as a secure connection to serve our customer. It's not bad, but it's one of my least favorites for this type of connection.

Barracuda Message Archiver has been a dependable solution for email retention and retrieval It is easy to manage, performs reliably and makes it simple to locate historical messages when needed

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Smarsh (Actiance)

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MessageSolution

Smarsh

OpenText (Micro Focus)

Proofpoint (Hornetsecurity Group)

Jatheon

Agat Software

At Barracuda we strive to make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-first, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.

At Barracuda we strive to make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers‚Äô journey. More than 150,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them ‚Äì in ways they may not even know they are at risk ‚Äì so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.  

At Barracuda we strive to make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 150,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them – in ways they may not even know they are at risk – so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.  

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Favorable Review

Reliable email retention and retrieval with an outdated interface design

Critical Review

Secure connection but it causes conflicts with other connection software

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