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CDP Competitive analysis of
Barracuda Backup Appliance
Ken Dang
Product line Manager - CDP
Summary: CDP Advantages
Features
Barracuda
SonicWALL
Flexible Disaster Recovery Options
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Application Support (Exchange,
SQL, AD, Outlook)
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Platform Protection and Recovery
(BMR w/ UR)
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Simple Group Policy base backup
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Low touch administration
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Linux Support
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Open-file backup
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Laptops/Desktop Protection
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Barracuda Disadvantages
 Lacks flexible disaster recovery options
 Customers are forced to subscribe to offsite service
 Affordability is outside of SMB reach as amount of data grows
 No Local Archiving or Appliance to Appliance data replication for
customer who demand complete control of their data without the
recurring cost of offsite service
 TCO increases significantly over time.
 No protection against platform disaster - leaving application and file
server that keep business operational vulnerable to HW failure, SW
reliability and disastrous events
 Downtime can be significant when replacing and reconfiguring server
machines
 No native support for database application
 Rely on 3rd Party SW adds complexity and cost to SMB
 Protection only as good as the frequency of the backup done
Barracuda Disadvantages
 No desktop/laptop backup for local or remote sites
 Majority of new “hot off the press” critical data resides on user machines
which are unlikely backed up to network file servers
 Unprotected end-user machine remains exposed and vulnerable to data
loss
 Lacks user policy
 Individual user set-up and configuration can be time intensive to enable
individual user self-restore
 Heavily taxing IT and MSP resources on initial set-up
 Not scaleable in larger environments – imagine setting 100 individual
users one at a time for access to their own data
CDP 110 Model Comparison
Total Cost
Model 100 + 50GB Offsite
SNWL CDP S2S
CDP 210 Model Comparison
Total Cost
Model 300 + 100GB Offsite
SNWL CDP S2S
CDP 5040 Model Comparison
Total Cost
Model 400 + 500GB Offsite
SNWL CDP S2S
CDP 5040 Model Comparison
Total Cost
Model 600 + 500GB Offsite
SNWL CDP S2S
CDP 6080 Model Comparison
Total Cost
Model 800 + 500GB Offsite
SNWL CDP S2S
Barracuda Backup At-A-Glance
 Backup Appliance provides local disk-based backup and recovery of
network file servers
 Extend automatic offsite backup to redundant data centers through the
acquisition of BitLeap.
 5 Appliance Models to choose from
Barracuda Backup At-A-Glance
 Data De-duplication – backup new bit sequences within a file, volume,
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or data sets across multiple locations
Bandwidth Management for Offsite backup
 Continuous or scheduled
 Alerting – automatic fault event notification of backup or connectivity
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User configurable Revision/Retention policy for specific data set
Reporting & Statistic – provides detail graphical illustration of backup
environment including backup usage, offsite usage, CPU & bandwidth
utilization and others….
Backup Scheduler – configurable to every minute
File and Folder Management including inclusion/exclusion w/ exclusion
rules