Intuitive Policy, Discovery, and Compliance

Supporting litigation requests, enforcing corporate content policies and compliance with local and government regulations are major tasks performed by administrators, which included managing messages retrieval, delivery of relevant communication and email retention. Barracuda Message Archiver offers standard and customizable policies along with other features to support all these requirements of the administrators.

Retention Policies

It controls length of time of retained email messages, in order to comply with company records of for government regulations. Custom policies are defined for specific user mailboxes for litigation holds.

Roles

There can be three tiers of user access privileges with Barracuda Message Archiver role-based administration feature: administrator, auditors and users. User permissions are immediately classified through integration with Active Directory.

Content Monitoring

Custom policies can be created for monitoring user-defined keywords and phrases along with standards policies; it can enforce policies by scanning emails for content including personal ID information, foul language, job search websites and other irrelevant material. Administrators can activate default policies while installation, new policy definitions are delivered through energize updates for monitoring policy violations and creating audit trail of relevant email messages.

Litigation Readiness & Discovery

Auditors and administrators can easily search and compile relevant messages using dates, keywords, sender/recipients, tags and other criteria and export them through the powerful searching features of Barracuda Message Archiver. Related policy violations and access records can also be sent to legal counsel on request.

Interoperability

Attachment Subbing

In order to save space and email loads, attachments are separated from the email and replaced with “stubs” – attachments make up almost 85% of the content stored on email servers therefore separating it increases speed. These stubs are links to the attachments, that seamlessly retrieve when and where required and eventually reduce space and processing time.

PST File Import

It can import data from users’ desktops or laptops in PST file formats. Both importing option (PST file and MAPI) offer importing legacy emails where as newer emails are captured for creating comprehensive central email archive for increasing searching and retrieval speed.

MAPI Email Import

For importing email from Microsoft MAPI, Microsoft Exchange Servers are utilized.

Access Anywhere

In order to view and interact with archived messages and manage attachments stubbing from outlook interface, Outlook add-in is used. It offers searching archived emails from even mobile devices.

Storage

Single Instance Storage
Barracuda Message Archiver is intelligent enough to sniff and remove duplicate emails and attachments from message threads. It compresses and stores only a single copy of a message or attachment before archiving it, which in turn saves space, file system gets optimized and search and retrieval get easy.

Message Storage

Internal and external mirroring is utilized for facilitating built-in and redundant storage facility, it has option for swappable driver trays as well. It helps in cost-cutting by moving email from costly transaction-based storages to affordable storage option.

Archiving

For satisfying unique requirements in fast and intuitive way, Barracuda Email Archiver offers multiple deployment options. Barracuda Message Archiver can get email via standard POP3 or IMAP email protocols and it can push email via SMTP. In case journal failure by any email server, it uses Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall for journaling inbound and outbound emails.

Search & Retrieval

Barracuda Email Archiver web-based UI is idea for performing full-text searches using tags, keywords and message content as it is equip with Archive Search Tool. Users can view folder structures in their Exchange server along with viewing personal email archives and forward them.

Indexing

Besides having advanced options like using tags for customized searches, it offers fully indexed emails feature based on all message components including attachment, content and email keywords.

Folder Structure

It maintains folder structure, which users can view and search out through via intuitive web-based UI. Outlook add-in can also be used for searching specific folders.

Deployment Couldn’t Be Easier

Journaling Deployment

It put-offs Barracuda Message Archive to side of Microsoft Exchange server and captures emails that are marked for journaling by Exchange server before delivering to the users. Already stored email at server can also be imported to Barracuda Message Archive using Microsoft’s Message Application Protocol Interface (MAPI).

SMTP Deployment

Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall can be used with Barracuda Message Archive in case journaling is missing, for capturing external and internet emails via SMTP. It copied messages to Barracuda Message Archive. Administrators can use SMTP relay located in-front of their internal email servers for capturing sent email within organization.

Streamlined Administration

Features like intuitive, cost-effective administration and end-to-end access are received by different features of Barracuda Message Archiver including intuitive web-based UI, Outlook add-in and mobile applications. Policies rules and archive setting can be defined and managed across broad range of interfaces.

Intelligent Storage Manger

It offers complete over view and statistics of used and available storage; which helps administrators in deciding where to use concatenated storages including external storage devices or mirrored storage for added redundancy.

Energize Updates

Barracuda Message Archiver extensive library of virus definitions, policy definitions, updates to new document-file formats as well security updates are automatically updated 24×7 through Barracuda Central.

Central Management

All Your Barracuda Products at a Glance

Barracuda Control Center is used by administrators for managing and controlling multiple Barracuda Message Archivers easily. It is efficient and quicker way for managing multiple products including cloud, virtual and hardware.
Cloud portal monitors and streamlines performance of multiple archiver, deploying consistent, performing search and retrieval tasks remotely or custom archiving policies across different locations.