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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
Application Support (Exchange,
SQL, AD, Outlook)
Platform Protection and Recovery
(BMR w/ UR)
Simple Group Policy base backup
Low touch administration
Linux Support
Open-file backup
Laptops/Desktop Protection
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,
or data sets across multiple locations
Bandwidth Management for Offsite backup
Continuous or scheduled
Alerting – automatic fault event notification of backup or connectivity
issues
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