Barracuda Email Protection vs Veritas Enterprise Vault comparison

Barracuda Networks and Veritas are both solutions in the Email Archiving category. Barracuda Networks is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.8, while Veritas is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.6. Barracuda Networks holds a 25.2% mindshare in EA, compared to Veritas’s 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Barracuda Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Veritas users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

Veritas Enterprise Vault and Barracuda Email Protection compete in the email archiving and protection category. Veritas seems to have the upper hand in archive capabilities and indexing, while Barracuda excels in user-friendly deployment and robust email protection features.

Features: Veritas Enterprise Vault offers exceptional email archiving, robust indexing, and integration with Microsoft Office products. Barracuda Email Protection is favored for its spam blocking, AI-powered threat detection, and seamless integration with Microsoft 365.

Room for Improvement: Veritas needs better reporting, integration with cloud platforms, and simplified management. Barracuda could benefit from improved fraud detection, stronger third-party integration, and refined policy controls.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veritas Enterprise Vault's on-premises setup can be complex with reactive support. Barracuda, a cloud solution, is easier to deploy with responsive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Veritas is often seen as expensive but offers long-term savings by reducing storage demands. Barracuda is generally cost-effective, though prices vary, and improvements in licensing are anticipated.

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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 (12th), 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 October 2025, in the Email Archiving category, the mindshare of Barracuda Email Protection is 25.2%, up from 22.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault is 4.1%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Email Archiving Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Barracuda Email Protection	25.2%
Veritas Enterprise Vault	4.1%
Other	70.7%

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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

"The archiving and search features are very good."

"I'm quite satisfied with the graphical user interface for Barracuda products."

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

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

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

"The solution is straightforward to set up."

"The beauty of Barracuda Email Protection is that it is easy to manage and simple to deploy."

"The most helpful aspect for me is the out-of-the-box configuration, which is fairly good."

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"The indexing and searching features are the most valuable features of Veritas Enterprise Vault."

"The archive allows the customers to search any items as far back as five or ten years ago."

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

"Compared to other third-party products, the solution's most valuable features are its cost and security."

"The stability is excellent."

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

"User behavior is very smooth."

"The most valuable features are ease of use and performance. However, the performance can depend on the workload being used."

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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."

"Barracuda Essentials can improve by continually adding more features."

"I would like to see better integration with other products."

"The policies are set up in Barracuda by default; we don't have any control over them."

"The product must enable bulk user management."

"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."

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

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

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"It's not so easy for a layperson or a new user to learn to use Veritas Enterprise Vault."

"To give a quick calculation, one year of Veritas Enterprise Vault is more expensive than five years of CommVault."

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

"The stability could be improved."

"One of the big disadvantages is that the product doesn't cover structured data"

"It requires a lot of maintenance; we had a lot of problems with it as services were falling down or failing, so it's not really easy to maintain."

"The solution is not user-friendly and the restoration is not fast. It's also tricky to get information from it."

"The deployment phase is very hard."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The product is expensive."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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"Veritas Enterprise Vault is an expensive solution."

"The pricing is very high."

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

"Enterprise Vault is a little bit expensive."

"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."

"It's an affordable solution"

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Large Enterprise	11

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.

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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...

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What needs improvement with Barracuda Email Protection?

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What do you like most about Veritas Enterprise Vault?

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

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

I don't know if the solution is affordable or if it's still a bit expensive in comparison to other products.

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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

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