Barracuda Email Protection vs Veritas Enterprise Vault comparison

Barracuda Email Protection vs. Veritas Enterprise Vault

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Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Email Protection

Ranking in Email Archiving

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Email Security (15th), Office 365 Protection (5th)

Veritas Enterprise Vault

Ranking in Email Archiving

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File Archiving (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Email Archiving category, the mindshare of Barracuda Email Protection is 31.2%, up from 21.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault is 5.1%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Email Archiving

Featured Reviews

LeeMiles

Director, Information Technology at St Albans High School For Girls

Very good threat protection, spam filtering, and cloud backups

Considering it integrates with Azure, I would like to be able to effectively set up policies where people are by default included in certain settings. For instance, for email quarantine, I can't set up a global setting. Users must go through an induction session where I guide them in configuring quarantine alerts rather than having default settings based on group membership. This seems like an oversight since they already use Active Directory details. They should assign policies based on group membership, which configures these settings by default.

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Charles Nwaokukwu

Head, Datacenter and IT Enterprise Applications at GTBANK

Support for data archiving and integration capabilities enhance data management

The GUI of Veritas Enterprise Vault is not friendly; the user interface can be quite convoluted for users or IT people who are not conversant with it. Even for professionals, it can be complex. Over time, if you get the hang of it, you'll understand it, but it's not something you can teach a user to quickly grasp. It's kind of complex. Veritas could do something to change this situation. I've given feedback quite a number of times through various channels, including during support calls. I remember trying to do a system state backup using our NetBackup feature, and I found out that Veritas NetBackup cannot back up a system state. Having numerous solutions instead of just one backup system can be quite unfriendly. They can back up other things such as databases and file servers, but when it comes to carrying a system state backup, it falls short. Honestly, Veritas Enterprise Vault's costing was one of the main reasons we dropped the integration to the cloud.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We check the reports sometimes to see that frequent attacks and malicious emails are being blocked by the solution."

"The most valuable features are security and ease of use."

"Barracuda email protection is stable. I would give it a nine because of its strong cybersecurity features."

"The solution's most valuable feature is impersonation detection."

"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."

"The best feature of Barracuda Email Protection is that it provides protection for Microsoft 365."

"When we got the service, it included the email archiver with unlimited storage."

"The most valuable aspect includes attempts to spoof or compromise domains from external sources."

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"Enterprise is a user-friendly product."

"What I have heard from admins working on that environment is that they are very satisfied with Veritas Enterprise Vault, and they are also satisfied with what Commvault solution."

"The data retrieval process was seamless with Veritas Enterprise Vault"

"Organizations can streamline governance processes and improve compliance by utilizing automated classification to tag and categorize data."

"Support is great and they have a very good response time."

"I use the solution to find data loss and restore the data."

"The most valuable feature of Veritas Enterprise Vault is the on-premise recall from your email into Outlook."

"The stability is excellent."

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Cons

"I would like to see some additional functionality in terms of employee monitoring, as part of a work-from-home security solution."

"The customer service and support could be improved if the support were available directly in Europe. Currently, the support is often managed from India, so we sometimes need to wait due to the time zone difference. It would be quicker and better if the support were provided by European staff."

"Considering it integrates with Azure, I would like to be able to effectively set up policies where people are by default included in certain settings."

"There is room for improvement, particularly in reaching out to technical support during deployment."

"Sometimes it is somewhat laggy, especially on the Archiver side. It should have improved performance on their Message Archiver."

"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) could be improved visually."

"The solution's reporting mechanism is a little poor and could be improved."

"The product must enable bulk user management."

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"The platform's price could be affordable for small businesses."

"The quality of support by Veritas has declined in the last year."

"Dealing with personal information, such as documents that contain a personal number, personal ID or something like that should be improved. Sometimes it works poorly in that regard."

"Veritas Enterprise Vault's cloud backup solution should include the journal archiving feature along with the standard licensing package."

"The GUI is not friendly. The user interface can be quite convoluted for a user or an IT person who is not conversant with Veritas Enterprise Vault to immediately grasp it."

"The stability could be improved."

"The GUI is not friendly. The user interface can be quite convoluted for a user or an IT person who is not conversant with Veritas Enterprise Vault to immediately grasp it."

"The file-level archiving is very important in Enterprise Vault 12 and this doesn't really exist in early versions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Barracuda Essentials is better than some of the competing products."

"Despite a list price possibly around $40 per user, their market price allows customers to easily buy the solution."

"The product is expensive."

"Barracuda licensing model is good."

"We pay annually. They never charged us for anything else. And they were quite a bit under that $20,000 mark. It was $19,074. And they've been pretty good about not skyrocketing the price or anything like that. It has gone up. It's gone up to $24,000 in 2020."

"We didn't have to pay a lot for the solution because we got it from a good vendor with a good user volume."

"The solution's pricing is moderate, where it is neither cheap nor expensive."

"The price is similar to that of Microsoft 365."

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"Veritas Enterprise Vault pricing is average, and I rate the solution a five out of ten for pricing."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

"The price for Enterprise Vault is around €100 per user."

"The pricing is very high."

"It's an affordable solution"

"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an expensive solution."

"There is a license required for this solution and it is typically is paid annually."

"Enterprise Vault is a little bit expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

University

Educational Organization

19%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Email Protection?

Barracuda Email Protection is easy to deploy and maintain. It doesn't require a specialized resource to manage this tool.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Email Protection?

Their list price is too high, but in India, the selling price is affordable at around $10 per user per year. Despite a list price possibly around $40 per user, their market price allows customers t...

What needs improvement with Barracuda Email Protection?

What do you like most about Veritas Enterprise Vault?

Veritas Enterprise Vault is an archive solution for email and files.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Enterprise Vault?

On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten.

What needs improvement with Veritas Enterprise Vault?

The problem is that licensing costs in the last two years are just growing higher and higher. Two years ago, compared to today, the costs rose almost four times, and that is why we are not happy wi...

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Also Known As

Barracuda Essentials

Enterprise Vault, Symantec Enterprise Vault

Overview

The popularity of Microsoft 365 means criminals test and design their attacks to bypass its native security features. And that means you need additional layers of defense. With Advanced Threat Protection enabled, Barracuda uses multiple layers of detection, including signature, static, and behavioral analysis, along with CPU-emulation sandboxing to accurately detect and block zero-hour targeted attacks and ransomware.

Traditional email gateways use static rules and policies—reputation analysis, block lists, and malicious payloads—to determine if an email is malicious.

Barracuda protects your Microsoft 365 inbox against evasive threats with a powerful AI engine that learns the unique communication patterns within your organization through access to internal and historical emails. Once it understands what legitimate emails looks like for each user, it can detect anomalies that signal malicious intent. This context-based detection is more effective at blocking targeted attacks, which are designed to bypass traditional rule-based email security.

Barracuda Networks

Veritas Enterprise Vault is a comprehensive information archiving solution that helps organizations manage and protect their data. It enables seamless archiving of emails, files, and other unstructured data, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. With advanced search and retrieval capabilities, it allows users to quickly access archived information.

Veritas

Sample Customers

ACT Government, Acumen Group, AGIP, Delta Dental Plans Association, Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., Equinox Information Systems

Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Dell, HP, Cisco, Adobe, Symantec, SAP, EMC, Citrix, VMware, Accenture, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, NetApp, Nokia, Panasonic, Red Hat, Salesforce, Siemens, Sony, Toshiba, Twitter, Verizon, Visa, Vodafone, Walmart, Yahoo, ZTE

Barracuda Email Protection vs. Veritas Enterprise Vault