Barracuda tagged number One in Integrated Systems for Purpose-Built Backup Appliances

Barracuda Backup continues to lead Integrated PBBA units shipped, according to leading analyst firm.

Barracuda Networks continues its momentum. According to the IDC Worldwide Purpose-Built Backup Appliance (PBBA) Tracker,  Barracuda shipped the highest volume of integrated systems in 2015. IDC defines integrated systems as solutions that have a data movement engine with the appliance, as opposed to a target system that serves as only a target for incoming backup application data. Barracuda has been ranked number one in Integrated Purpose-Built Backup Appliance units shipped for the 16th consecutive quarter, with 37% market share for all of 2015.

Customers continue to select Barracuda’s end-to-end backup solution for its seamless integration into existing infrastructures and ease of use. Barracuda provides customers with industry-leading features like offsite vaulting, which removes monthly and yearly revisions from the local appliance and stores them offsite, extending the life of local appliances. In addition, Barracuda customers benefit from Barracuda’s best-in-class inline de-duplication, reducing the backup storage footprint while shortening backup and replication times.

“Barracuda Backup provides our organization with the flexibility to manage our backup and recovery needs in a way that makes the most sense for us,” said Ken Kula, Partner and CFO at Eleven Inc. “Not only is Barracuda a great fit on the technology end, Barracuda also simplifies the pricing, deployment, and management processes by covering all the pieces of backup and recovery with a single vendor solution.”

Barracuda recently announced significant updates to its Barracuda Backup product line, including new subscription and cloud storage pricing and two new large-scale models – increasing deployment flexibility for customers operating in physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments.

• Barracuda Backup Vx - Barracuda Backup Vx is a software offering that is deployed as a virtual machine in VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, and includes the same integrated backup functionality as the physical Barracuda Backup appliance. It can now be purchased as a per-socket subscription for virtual hosts, which includes software replication. Physical server backup with Barracuda Backup Vx can be licensed on a per-server basis.

• Barracuda Backup Vx Cloud Storage Pricing - Barracuda Backup Vx includes a new metered Barracuda Cloud Storage plan that is priced competitively against major public cloud storage providers. It also includes built-in data redundancy and the ability to move data out of the cloud without additional bandwidth charges as with other cloud backup providers.

• Introducing the Barracuda Backup 790 and 895 - Barracuda Backup 790 offers 12 TB of usable capacity and Barracuda Backup 895 offers 24 TB of usable capacity, giving customers cost effective options as their backup requirements expand.

“Barracuda is an established leader in the worldwide purpose-built backup appliance market and we’re pleased to expand our offering with Barracuda Backup Vx as a purpose-built virtual appliance,” said Rod Mathews, GM Storage, Barracuda Networks. “Many businesses deploying backup software for virtualization are forced to deal with the headaches of licensing, deploying, and maintaining a ‘build it yourself’ solution with multiple point products. Barracuda Backup Vx delivers the same integrated functionality and quick setup experience as Barracuda physical appliances. Barracuda offers a cost effective integrated backup solution regardless of how customers want to deploy. Today’s announcement reinforces our commitment to helping customers simplify their data protection needs.”