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Barracuda Backup now has more features and greater capacity

September 14, 2016 by Christine Barry

Barracuda is pleased to announce the release of Barracuda Backup version 6.3. This release is currently in early availability (EA) and will be generally available (GA) in the fall. You can read the press release here and the release notes here.

This new release brings a handful of performance improvements and new capabilities to the Barracuda Backup. Here's a summary of the new features, with some help from the Barracuda Campus documentation:

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Christine Barry

Christine Barry is Senior Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Barracuda.  In this role, she helps bring Barracuda stories to life and facilitate communication between the public and Barracuda internal teams.  Prior to joining Barracuda, Christine was a field engineer and project manager for K12 and SMB clients for over 15 years.  She holds several technology credentials, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Business Administration.  She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Connect with Christine on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter here.

https://blog.barracuda.com

Filed Under: Network and Application Security, Barracuda Tagged With: Barracuda, Data Protection and Recovery, Barracuda Backup and Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, Barracuda Data Protection Plus

When it comes to regulatory compliance, what are your options?

May 12, 2016 by Rich Turner


Archiving from Office 365
for Compliance and eDiscovery
Download the pdf here

Regulatory compliance often requires companies to keep various conforming email data for specific periods of time – and a regulatory audit will require the company to quickly produce that data or face fines.  Because non-compliance can carry stiff penalties, companies are naturally concerned that compliance archives are secured.

This simply isn’t something that can be done in a public cloud when another vendor is managing that data and only segregating it from other data.  These situations require a compliance repository, which is often an archive kept on-premises or in a different, directly-managed cloud environment.

The Barracuda Message Archiver (BMA) enables customers to retain and retrieve all email communication while reducing storage requirements.  It's ideal for organizations looking to reduce their email storage requirements and boost user productivity with mobile or desktop access to any email ever sent or received. The cloud-connected appliance uses the Barracuda Cloud to move information to the cloud as a secondary tier of storage. In addition, the Barracuda Message Archiver also provides a powerful, yet simple platform for eDiscovery and compliance.


As a government municipality, the City of Lebanon, TN is required to store emails for up to 7 years. The Barracuda Message Archiver allows them to automate the archiving process, removes strain from their email servers, and gives them the ability to easily retrieve stored messages.

Compliance archives are best kept segregated from other data – and under a company’s direct control.Click To Tweet

For more information on how the Barracuda Message Archiver can help your organization, visit the following resources:

  • Product site
  • 30-day risk-free evaluation
  • Barracuda Message Archiver Features

 

For more from Rich Turner, visit his blog here and connect with him on LinkedIn here.

 

Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Filed Under: Network and Application Security, Email Protection, Barracuda, Public Cloud Solutions Tagged With: Data Protection and Recovery, Barracuda Data Protection Plus

Intronis MSP Solutions by Barracuda expands into the UK

April 18, 2016 by Christine Barry

Today we are pleased to announced that Intronis MSP Solutions by Barracuda is now operational in the UK.   Intronis MSP Solutions offers solutions for managed service providers who are looking to simplify service delivery, management, and pricing for business customers.  These solutions include the new Barracuda Backup – Intronis MSP Edition, which was introduced to customers last month.

Barracuda announces first expansion for Intronis MSP Solutions outside of North America. Click To Tweet

We have a dynamic and vibrant MSP community in the UK, and demand for simple and secure data protection solutions is growing rapidly. I look forward to expanding Barracuda’s channel in the UK to build this business, and engaging with MSPs to help them grow and add greater value to their managed services portfolio.

Jason Howells, EMEA sales director, Intronis MSP Solutions at Barracuda.

Barracuda acquired Intronis in 2015.  For more information on today's announcement, see our press release here.  For more information on Intronis MSP Solutions by Barracuda, visit www.intronis.com.

 

Christine Barry

Christine Barry is Senior Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Barracuda.  In this role, she helps bring Barracuda stories to life and facilitate communication between the public and Barracuda internal teams.  Prior to joining Barracuda, Christine was a field engineer and project manager for K12 and SMB clients for over 15 years.  She holds several technology credentials, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Business Administration.  She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Connect with Christine on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter here.

https://blog.barracuda.com

Filed Under: Barracuda Tagged With: Barracuda Data Protection Plus, Barracuda MSP Solutions

Customer Spotlight – Drew Marine and Barracuda Backup

April 17, 2016 by Christine Barry

It’s so easy. I get a call from Japan,
roll out of bed, connect to the Internet,
log in to the portal, restore the file,
and go back to bed.

Allwyn Griffith
Director of Enterprise Infrastructure
Drew Marine

Drew Marine is featured in this video and case study on Barracuda Backup solutions.  We talk to Allwyn Griffith Director of Enterprise Infrastructure, about the challenges of tape backup solutions across Drew Marine's global network.

Drew Marine provides technical solutions and services such as fuel management, water treatment, cleaning programs, and safety products.  They to the marine industry.   Drew Marine’s global network offers onboard and shore-side technical support in each of their 20 locations, which houses more than 600 employees.

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Christine Barry

Christine Barry is Senior Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Barracuda.  In this role, she helps bring Barracuda stories to life and facilitate communication between the public and Barracuda internal teams.  Prior to joining Barracuda, Christine was a field engineer and project manager for K12 and SMB clients for over 15 years.  She holds several technology credentials, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Business Administration.  She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Connect with Christine on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter here.

https://blog.barracuda.com

Filed Under: Network and Application Security, Barracuda Tagged With: Data Protection and Recovery, Barracuda Backup and Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, Barracuda Data Protection Plus

Use a layered approach to protect yourself from Cryptolocker

April 7, 2016 by Christine Barry

Cryptolocker and similar ransomware attacks are nothing new, and we've blogged about them before.  As we said over a year ago, the attackers using these methods continue to adapt their technology and business model to circumvent law enforcement officials and user defenses.

Ransomware is a type of malware that hijacks data on the infected computer and demands a ransom from the user.  Here's a video demonstrating Cryptolocker in action:

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Christine Barry

Christine Barry is Senior Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Barracuda.  In this role, she helps bring Barracuda stories to life and facilitate communication between the public and Barracuda internal teams.  Prior to joining Barracuda, Christine was a field engineer and project manager for K12 and SMB clients for over 15 years.  She holds several technology credentials, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Business Administration.  She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Connect with Christine on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter here.

https://blog.barracuda.com

Filed Under: Network and Application Security, Barracuda Tagged With: Data Protection and Recovery, Barracuda Total Threat Protection, Ransomware, Barracuda Data Protection Plus

An easy cure to ransomware that people forgot about

March 30, 2016 by Rich Turner

One of the police departments that was hit with ransomware in Massachusetts didn’t pay the ransom, yet were able to get their files unlocked.  How did they do this, when even computer experts acknowledge the encryption is nearly unbreakable?

What they turned to was something quite basic.  They had a long-standing policy of nightly backups of all police data.   They also had a savvy IT manager – the minute he realized users were being infected he alerted all the users so additional files didn’t get encrypted.   He then turned to the handful of users with encrypted files – and restored their mailboxes to last evening’s backup.

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Filed Under: Network and Application Security, Barracuda, Public Cloud Solutions Tagged With: Data Protection and Recovery, Barracuda Backup and Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, Office 365, Ransomware, Barracuda Data Protection Plus

New models, pricing, and options available for Barracuda Backup

March 29, 2016 by Christine Barry

Yesterday we talked about what you can do to celebrate and spread the message of Worldwide Backup Day.   Today we're celebrating our own unofficial “Backup Day” by announcing some updates to our Barracuda Backup product line.  You can get all the details in this press release, but here's a quick summary:

  Purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs)
are standalone systems purpose built to
serve as a target for backup and
include features such as deduplication,
compression, encryption, remote
replication, and support interfaces.

Barracuda Backup Vx

The award-winning, purpose-built Barracuda Backup is one of the most versatile and flexible data protection options available.  It can be deployed as a physical or virtual appliance, or as a cloud-to-cloud solution.

The Barracuda Backup Vx can now be purchased as a per-socket subscription for virtual hosts, including software replication.  This is a software solution that can be deployed on VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, and includes the same integrated backup functionality as the physical Barracuda Backup physical appliance.

Barracuda Backup Vx also includes a new metered Barracuda Cloud Storage plan.  Barracuda customers can deploy this virtual appliance with built-in data redundancy and the ability to move data out of the cloud without additional bandwidth charges.

[Read more…] about New models, pricing, and options available for Barracuda Backup

Christine Barry

Christine Barry is Senior Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Barracuda.  In this role, she helps bring Barracuda stories to life and facilitate communication between the public and Barracuda internal teams.  Prior to joining Barracuda, Christine was a field engineer and project manager for K12 and SMB clients for over 15 years.  She holds several technology credentials, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Business Administration.  She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Connect with Christine on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter here.

https://blog.barracuda.com

Filed Under: Network and Application Security, Barracuda, Public Cloud Solutions Tagged With: Data Protection and Recovery, Barracuda Backup and Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, Office 365, Barracuda Data Protection Plus

Why is Locky so dangerous?

March 28, 2016 by Christine Barry

In our last post we discussed the evolution of ransomware, and we covered some of the reasons why ransomware was spreading so quickly right now.   In this post we'll go into more detail on that, with emphasis on what makes Locky so dangerous to potential victims.

Locky was identified in mid-February, and within 2 weeks had become the second most prevalent version of ransomware around the world.  Locky has been spread primarily through spam email with Word attachments.  The attachment contains a malicious macro and is usually presented as an invoice.  When the user attempts to open the Word document, the text is scrambled and the user is instructed to enable macros.  Enabling the macros will allow the virus to contact a remote server, download an executable, and run the file.  This executable is the Locky ransomware that will execute immediate and begin to encrypt the files on the computer and unmapped network shares.

Locky has also used .js and .zip file attachments to infect PCs.

[Read more…] about Why is Locky so dangerous?

Christine Barry

Christine Barry is Senior Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Barracuda.  In this role, she helps bring Barracuda stories to life and facilitate communication between the public and Barracuda internal teams.  Prior to joining Barracuda, Christine was a field engineer and project manager for K12 and SMB clients for over 15 years.  She holds several technology credentials, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Business Administration.  She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Connect with Christine on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter here.

https://blog.barracuda.com

Filed Under: Network and Application Security, Email Protection, Barracuda, Public Cloud Solutions Tagged With: Data Protection and Recovery, Barracuda Backup and Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, Barracuda Network Security, Barracuda Cloud Generation Firewalls, Barracuda Web Application Firewalls, Barracuda Email Security, Barracuda Web Security, Barracuda Essentials for Email Security, Barracuda Web Security Gateway and Web Security Service, Office 365, Barracuda Total Threat Protection, Ransomware, Barracuda Data Protection Plus

The evolution of ransomware

March 27, 2016 by Christine Barry

Ransomware has been dominating the news for several weeks, and is likely to stay in the news for most of the year.  Ransomware is a distinct type of cyber attack, in that it extorts payment from the victim in exchange for allowing access to something that was encrypted in the attack.  The most prevalent type of malware used in this kind of crime is ‘crypto-ransomware', which normally encrypts the files on the compromised system, and then demands a ransom in return for the ability to decrypt and recover the files.  The latest iteration of crypto-ransomware is called Locky, and is the most advanced version of ransomware we have seen in the wild.

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Christine Barry

Christine Barry is Senior Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Barracuda.  In this role, she helps bring Barracuda stories to life and facilitate communication between the public and Barracuda internal teams.  Prior to joining Barracuda, Christine was a field engineer and project manager for K12 and SMB clients for over 15 years.  She holds several technology credentials, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Business Administration.  She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Connect with Christine on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter here.

https://blog.barracuda.com

Filed Under: Network and Application Security, Email Protection, Barracuda, Public Cloud Solutions Tagged With: Data Protection and Recovery, Barracuda Backup and Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, Barracuda Network Security, Barracuda Cloud Generation Firewalls, Barracuda Email Security, Barracuda Web Security, Barracuda Essentials for Email Security, Barracuda Web Security Gateway and Web Security Service, Office 365, Barracuda Total Threat Protection, Ransomware, Barracuda Data Protection Plus

Do I really care about PST files?

February 4, 2016 by Rich Turner

Do I really care about PST files? Didn’t Exchange stop supporting them years ago?

You only care about PST files if you have users that need to, or want to, access them.

Yes, Exchange 2010 introduced the Archive Mailbox and eliminated PST files, but you need to ingest PST files into that archive mailbox if users want to access them. And getting to them from Office is nearly impossible – not only do they need to be moved off of users’ desktops, they need to be migrated to the Microsoft cloud, which can be a lengthy process.

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Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Filed Under: Network and Application Security, Email Protection, Barracuda, Public Cloud Solutions Tagged With: Data Protection and Recovery, PST Management, Office 365, Barracuda Data Protection Plus, email

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