The Barracuda Message Archiver is an integrated hardware and software solution designed to archive email communications sent and received by users throughout your organization.
The Barracuda Message Archiver automatically stores and indexes all email messages in real-time while making them immediately available for rapid searching and retrieval by authorized users.
LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award - Winner The Barracuda Message Archiver was awarded the Product Excellence Award in the Messaging Solution category at Linuxworld 2008 in San Francisco.
Exchange Stubbing - New! The full Barracuda Message Archiver product line now features Exchange stubbing for optimization of email server resources. With
Exchange stubbing, administrators save email server storage and bandwidth requirements by moving email attachments from Microsoft Exchange to the Barracuda Message Archiver.
How Do You Currently Retain Your Organization's Email?
Recent changes in both the legal and regulatory environments have dramatically broadened the need to retain email messages for future search and retrieval, and this applies to virtually every size of organization.
Any organization that does not implement a strong email archiving solution faces a potentially astronomical hit both financially and in terms of resources if ever called upon to provide copies of email that they cannot access quickly.
- Do you have a retention policy that determines how long an email message is retained?
- Do you use role-based security that controls what access level individuals have to retained email?
- How do you monitor acceptable email behavior amongst your employees?
- If an auditor or legal counsel requested copies of emails as part of a discovery process how quickly and easily could you find them?
Satisfy Your Legal Requirements Immediately
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Enabling Corporate Compliance
"...companies are now facing the challenge of ensuring that their email traffic is adequately stored and compliant with various industry regulations as well as other corporate policies..."
To capture new messages immediately, the Barracuda Message Archiver can take advantage of journaling features of Microsoft Exchange and other standards-based email servers. The Barracuda Message Archiver also has the ability to import historical emails and PST files. Right out of the box, you can satisfy any legal requirements to retain your email without the integration hurdles of software-only solutions or security and network implications when using hosted services.
To fulfill litigation demands, you can search the archives and create alerts for any emails that may violate either standard or custom policies. Through a sophisticated roles-based user interface and tamper-resistant storage, you can enforce internal access control policies that help you comply with corporate and compliance regulations.
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Did You Know?
US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) guidelines are requiring that businesses, including public schools, take steps to archive all electronic documents (including email, instant messages and other electronic documents) and have them available as evidence in civil court cases.
Cost-effective, Virtually Maintenance-Free Solution
Through both single-instance storage and compression, the Barracuda Message Archiver reduces your email storage costs. By enabling the migration of historical email and managing of smaller message stores in your production email environment, you can also achieve greater operational effi ciencies. The BarracudaMessage Archiver also takes advantage of Barracuda Networks' expertise in threat protection by ensuring that historical emails are scanned for viruses, spyware and other malware threats before they are retrieved.
Energize Updates keep the Barracuda Message Archiver up to date with the most current policy definitions for the monitoring of compliance regulations, updates to the latest document file formats needed to decode content within email attachments, and security updates against the latest vulnerabilities and malware threats. With no per user license fees, the Barracuda Message Archiver offers the most affordable enterprise-class message archiving solution available.
Model Specifications
There are several models of Message Archiver to choose from. The entry level model 150 handles 75 users. The largest model 950 handles approximately 6,000 users. These specifications are not limits of the system, but are the recommended capacity.
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If you would like to speak to someone about which model is right for your organization, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Key Features
The Barracuda Message Archiver is a complete and affordable email archiving solution, enabling you to effectively index and preserve all emails, enhance operational efficiencies and achieve regulatory compliance needs. Leveraging standard policies and seamless access to messages, email content is fully indexed and backed up to enable administrators, auditors and end users quick retrieval of any email message stored in an organization’s email archive.
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- Do you need to store your mail messages to meet regulatory or organizational requirements?
- Are those messages taking up valuable disk space?
- Are you looking for a pain-free and easy archiving solution?
Due to strict compliance guidelines, administrators often need features that enable quick and secure delivery of past emails and a message audit history to address legal scrutiny. From an operations perspective, email archiving provides the ability to ease the strain on physical storage by moving emails off the email server without sacrificing access to the messages.
Comprehensive Email Management
The Barracuda Message Archiver provides multiple tools, enabling archiving and historical imports, search and retrieval, message storage, and roles to provide in-depth control over individual and organization-wide email archives. Capabilities include:
- Archiving
With multiple modes of deployment, getting started with email archiving is easy. Emails intended to be archived can either be pushed to the Barracuda Message Archiver via SMTP, or the Barracuda Message Archiver can pull emails via standard email access protocols (POP3 or IMAP). The Barracuda Message Archiver can also be deployed in conjunction with the Barracuda Spam Firewall, leveraging its capabilities to journal inbound and outbound email.
- MAPI Email Import
Using Microsoft’s Message Application Protocol Interface (MAPI), you can import emails from other sources to consolidate the historical emails stored on a Microsoft Exchange server into one secure email archive.
- PST File Import
Scattered PST files stored on users’ desktops or laptops can also be imported. In conjunction with the MAPI email import feature, this allows you to create a comprehensive archive of new and historical emails.
- SMTP Relay
The Barracuda Message Archiver can work as an SMTP relay to forward emails to your designated email server. This capability allows you to capture inter-company emails for archiving if journaling is not practical.
- Indexing
Using a thorough list of all message components, emails are fully indexed by message content and attachments with the option to add tags for customized searches.
- Search & Rretrieval
The Archive Search tool located in the Web user interface conducts quick full-text searches based on tags or message content. Users can easily search personal email archives, view emails in the archive and forward emails to active mailboxes.
- Message Storage
Built-in storage and redundancy is provided through internal or external mirroring, as well as swappable drive trays that enable added control and email management across the organization’s network. This allows you to move emails from costly, transaction-based storage required for production email servers to less expensive storage options.
- Single Instance Storage
With the use of single instance storage, the Barracuda Message Archiver intelligently removes duplicate emails or attachments from a message thread, ensuring only one copy is compressed before storing it in a file system to maximize storage capacity.
- Tamper Resistant
End users can monitor the status of email messages sent to their archive by checking to see if it has been corrupted or deleted.
Intuitive Policy, Discovery and Compliance Support
Enforcing corporate policy, compliance regulations and litigation requests are a growing aspect of a system administrator’s duties, requiring email retention, retrieval of related messages and delivery of all relevant communications. The Barracuda Message Archiver supports a standard and customizable set of policies and capabilities, including:
- Retention Policy
A predetermined archiving policy that outlines the length of time to retain email messages, whether to comply with government regulations or for company records.
- Roles
Using role-based administration, access privileges are organized in three tiers and can be designated to the administrator, auditor and end user by integrating with Active Directory to immediately classify user permissions.
- Compliance & Corporate Policy Monitoring
The Barracuda Message Archiver enforces standard policies by monitoring and reporting on behaviors, such as use of foul language, transmitting personal identifying information, list of most frequently visited job searching Web sites, as well as providing customizable policies to monitor use of user-defined keywords and phrases. Upon installation, administrators can immediately set up the built-in policies or leverage new policy definitions delivered by Energize Updates to begin monitoring policy violations and create an audit trail of relevant email messages.
- Litigation Readiness & Discovery Process
By using the powerful searching capabilities, auditors and email administrators can easily sort through an email archive to compile relevant messages based on keywords, dates and sender/recipients into an exported file. Access records and related policy violations can also be readily compiled and delivered to legal counsel as requested.
Simplified and Centralized Administration
The Barracuda Message Archiver features an easy-to-use Web user interface, creating an intuitive and cost-effective administration tool for the integrated hardware and software solution. The Web user interface allows users to define, manage and control corporate archiving settings and rules from one central place.
- Archive Multiple Domains
For organizations that handle multiple domain names, such as an ISP, the Barracuda Message Archiver can be set up to individually store and index messages from each source.
- Multiple Domain Administration [Coming Soon for Model 650 and higher]
Policies and permissions can be set for each administrator and auditor to access only their relevant archives across an organization.
- Intelligent Storage Manager
The Intelligent Storage Manager provides a complete view of used and available storage, enabling email administrators to decide between concatenated, an expanded method for storage involving additional external storage drives, or mirrored storage for redundancy.
- Reporting & Statistics
With sophisticated built-in reports, the Barracuda Message Archiver allows you to report on various operational and legal aspects. A sample of reports includes growth of email archive as well as the consistency and integrity of the archive index.
- Energize Updates
Delivered by Barracuda Central to update the extensive library of virus definitions to block virus and spyware variants, policy definitions to enable enhanced monitoring of compliance and corporate guidelines, updates to the latest document file formats needed to decode content within email attachments, as well as security updates for the underlying Barracuda Message Archiver platform to remain free of any potential security vulnerabilities.
Deployment Configurations
The basic Journaling Deployment Configuration involves simply placing the Barracuda Message Archiver off to the side of the Microsoft Exchange server. Email messages marked for journaling by the Exchange server are captured by the Barracuda Message Archiver before delivery to end users. In this deployment mode, historical emails already stored on the email server, prior to enabling journaling, can be imported into the Barracuda Message Archiver using Microsoft's Message Application Protocol Interface (MAPI).
SMTP Deployment Configuration
When journaling on your email server is not an available or practical option, you can use a combination of the Barracuda Message Archiver and the Barracuda Spam Firewall to capture both external and internal emails via SMTP. To capture messages sent from external Internet users, you can leverage the journaling capabilities of the Barracuda Spam Firewall to copy messages to your Barracuda Message Archiver. To capture messages sent from inside your organization, you can configure internal email clients to use the Barracuda Message Archiver as their SMTP relay that would be placed in front of your internal email server.
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