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Barracuda Message Archiver

byBarracuda
in Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions
4.3

Overview

Product Information on Barracuda Message Archiver

Updated 24th November 2025

What is Barracuda Message Archiver?

Barracuda Message Archiver is an email archiving solution that helps organizations securely store, manage, and retrieve email communications while meeting compliance requirements. Available as a physical, virtual, or cloud-connected deployment, it offers advanced features like policy-based retention, legal hold, and search across messages, attachments, and metadata. Barracuda Message Archiver reduces storage costs, ensures regulatory compliance, and simplifies email management for businesses of all sizes.

Barracuda Message Archiver Pricing

Barracuda Message Archiver software uses a hardware appliance and subscription-based pricing model, where the cost depends on the selected appliance capacity and additional software features. The software license includes support and updates, with pricing varying based on storage size and number of users. Optional cloud storage and extended support services are available at additional cost.

Overall experience with Barracuda Message Archiver

It Associate
50M - 250M USD, Manufacturing
FAVORABLE

“Consistent Access to Archived Emails With Some Drawbacks in Interface Design”

4.0
Mar 16, 2026
It is a reliable email archiving solution that effectively meets our compliance, retention, and e-discovery requirements.
NETWORK ANS SYSTEM ENINEER
50M - 250M USD, Media
CRITICAL

“Could be more responsive”

3.0
Jun 21, 2022
Good product, but a bit complex to manage, and often not really responsive in admin ui

About Company

Company Description

Updated 14th July 2025

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.

Company Details

Updated 14th July 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2003
Head office location
Campbell, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
http://www.barracuda.com

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Barracuda Message Archiver Likes & Dislikes

Like

Strongest advantage is the simplicity and consistency of access to archived data. End users and administrators can quickly search and retrieve historical emails.

Like

A global view of what's in and what's out

Like

Ease of retrieval of archived messages and mails.

Dislike

This is very minor, the interface feels dated.

Dislike

slowness

Dislike

Nothing.

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Barracuda Message Archiver Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(69 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
58%
4 Star
33%
3 Star
9%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.6

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.7

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • It Associate
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Consistent Access to Archived Emails With Some Drawbacks in Interface Design

    4.0
    Mar 16, 2026
    It is a reliable email archiving solution that effectively meets our compliance, retention, and e-discovery requirements.
  • Surveyor
    50M-1B USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Barracuda Enables Easy Email Archiving With Legal Compliance And Data Retention

    5.0
    Jan 15, 2026
    Offers secure emails and messages archiving. We are able to retain old emails and save on cloud storage. Search and retrieval of archived mails and messages is easy and straighthood. Barracuda is compliant with the legal requirement and enforce data retention policy.
  • It Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Simple Deployment Process Allows Flexible Retention and Efficient Email Search

    5.0
    Apr 15, 2026
    Easy to deploy, retention policy can be defined as per requirement, easy to search old emails
  • Sales Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Streamlining Email Management: Archiving, Searching, and Security Enhancement

    5.0
    Apr 24, 2025
    The tool has helped in managing, storing, archiving, and searching emails in compliance with regulatory. We are able to archive emails, enhance email search and improve email security.
  • Manager of IT Services
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Barracuda Message Archiver: Examining Performance and Integration

    4.0
    Feb 3, 2025
    Barracuda Message Archiver provides efficient email retention, compliance and e-discovery with seamless integration for on-premises and cloud environments. The barracuda message archiver console responds very delayed and sometimes we are also unable to see the uploaded PSTs. With Barracuda Message Archiver we are not able to import the users to assign the PSTs.
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