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The Barracuda IM Firewall is the first product to provide everything an organization needs to control and manage internal and external instant messaging (IM)Instant Messaging traffic. It combines an integrated IM server and gateway solution that is powerful, easy to use, and affordable for businesses of all sizes. Installing in minutes, it can easily and completely identify and manage both internal and public IM traffic within your organization. Using the Barracuda IM Firewall, your organization can eliminate the security, virus or compliance risks of instant messaging while harnessing the communications and productivity benefits for which IM has become an indispensable asset.

Powerful, Complete Solution

The Barracuda IM Firewall combines an internal IM server and client with management and security measures to form the most complete instant messaging solution available. The Barracuda IM Firewall provides:

Most instant messaging products provide either an IM server for secure internal instant messaging within your organization, or an IM gateway to identify, log, and report on existing IM traffic. The Barracuda IM Firewall is a secure IM server with a feature rich IM management solution in an appliance format. This two-tiered approach provides organizations a complete IM solution within minutes.

Easy to Use

The Barracuda IM Firewall is easy to set up and rollout to your users. Installing a unit inline takes minutes and, once connected, all public IM traffic is captured and logged to an internal database. With an intuitive user interface for maintenance and monitoring, the Barracuda IM Firewall is a virtually administration-free solution. When using the IM server, user deployment features such as an email rollout tool allow users to have the client installed and connected in minutes. System updates are delivered automatically by Barracuda Central, an advanced 24/7 security operations center that works to continuously to provide the most effective methods to identify and control public IM traffic and combat ever-changing virus variants. Energize Updates are distributed hourly so that you are always protected against the latest threats.

Affordable

Large and small organizations alike demand solutions that are affordable not just for today, but also for the future as they grow. The Barracuda IM Firewall enables organizations to grow without having to worry about increasing user license fees. With no per user license fees, the Barracuda IM Firewall is the most affordable secure IM server and management solution available.

According to industry analysts, fewer than 20% of mission critical Internet applications achieve internal objectives for continuous availability. Challenges include maintaining uptime when servers fail, scaling data center capabilities to handle increased load, and protecting infrastructure from network vulnerabilities.

Powerful, Enterprise-Class Solution

The Barracuda Load Balancer is designed to provide comprehensive IP load balancing capabilities to any IP-based application, including:

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The Barracuda Load Balancer’s integrated Service Monitor ensures that servers and their associated applications are operational. In the event of server or application failure, the Barracuda Load Balancer facilitates automatic failover to ensure continuous availability. The Barracuda Load Balancer also assists in orchestrating scheduled maintenance windows on specific servers while maintaining application availability through other servers in the server farm.

To mitigate risks associated with failures of the load balancers themselves, two Barracuda Load Balancers can be deployed in an active/passive configuration. In the event of failure of a primary active Barracuda Load Balancer, the secondary Barracuda Load Balancer will automatically activate and assume the identity of the primary load balancer so as to maintain application availability.

Easy to Use and Maintain

The Barracuda Load Balancer is extremely easy to deploy, featuring automatic discovery and configuration tools through an intuitive Web interface. To minimize ongoing administration associated with security, the Barracuda Load Balancer automatically receives current intrusion prevention and security updates from Barracuda Central, an advanced technology operations center where engineers continuously monitor and mitigate the latest Internet threats.

The Barracuda Load Balancer also facilitates automatic configuration through a Web-based application programming interface (API) and system monitoring through SNMP.

Affordable

While price and complexity have historically restricted some organizations from deploying load balancers, the Barracuda Load Balancer is designed for organizations of all sizes. With no per port or per server license fees, the Barracuda Load Balancer is the most affordable enterprise-grade load balancing solution in its class.

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.

Powerful

The Barracuda Message Archiver provides everything an organization needs to comply with government regulations in an easy to install and administer plug-and-play hardware solution. The Barracuda Message Archiver stores and indexes all email for easy search and retrieval by both regular users and third-party auditors. Backed by Energize Updates, delivered by Barracuda Central, the Barracuda Message Archiver receives automatic updates to its extensive library of virus policy definitions to enable enhanced monitoring of compliance and corporate guidelines, document file format updates needed to decode content within email attachments, as well as security updates for the underlying Barracuda Message Archiver platform to protect against any potential security vulnerabilities.

Easy to Use

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 administrators to define, manage and control corporate archiving settings and rules from one central location.

Affordable

Unlike competitive offerings, the Barracuda Message Archiver has no per user licensing fees, no hardware issues to attend to, no database integration headaches and no security holes to patch, making it the most affordable and reliable email archiving solution available today.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall delivers powerful, easy to use, and affordable enterprise-class spam and virus protection.

Email has undoubtedly become a key tool for communications among companies worldwide. However, with frequent virus at tacks and the alarming rate that spam has been filling up inboxes, email is quickly becoming a less efficient means of communicating. In fact, the Radicati Group, a market research firm in Palo Alto, California, predicts that by 2007, there will be 50 billion spam messages each day, costing companies almost $200 billion per year. This is simply astounding and unacceptable. It’s time to take control of spam. The Barracuda Spam Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution that has the power of an enterprise-class solution, and the ease-of-use and affordability that businesses of all sizes demand.

Powerful, Enterprise-Class Solution

Designed by a team of veteran networking engineers, the Barracuda Spam Firewall is a powerful, enterprise class solution, supporting up to 25,000 active email users and handling 25 million messages each day. Its architecture leverages open source virus and spam solutions in conjunction with ten defence layers:

This architecture optimizes the processing of each email, which yields the performance required to process millions of messages per day. Unlike software solutions, the Barracuda Spam Firewall reduces the load placed on the email server by off-loading both spam and virus filtering.

Easy to Use and Maintain

With no software to install and no modifications required to existing email systems, installation is extremely easy, typically taking only five minutes. Once installed, the system administrator uses an intuitive web interface for monitoring and maintenance. The Barracuda Spam Firewall requires minimal maintenance because its innovative design incorporates reliability into every aspect of the product. Energize updates are automatically retrieved by the Barracuda Spam Firewall, enabling maximum spam and virus protection while eliminating administrative overhead. These updates are provided by Barracuda Central, an advanced technology operations centre where engineers continuously monitor the Internet for trends in spam and virus attacks.

Affordable

The Barracuda Spam Firewall is affordable for businesses of all sizes—anywhere from small to large. It has no per user licence fee, making it the most affordable enterprise-class spam and virus protection solution available.

For small to large organizations, the Barracuda Web Filter provides powerful yet affordable content filtering, spyware protection, and virus filtering.

Industry analysts have estimated that over 90% of all computers connected to the Internet are infected with spyware. Spyware is software that is downloaded onto a computer and then secretly collects and forwards information or displays advertising. Spyware undoubtedly leaves users and organizations vulnerable to a variety of serious risks, including intellectual property theft, productivity loss and privacy invasion at all levels.

With the rapid proliferation of spyware and the severe risks spyware brings, organizations are seeking solutions to help detect, remove and prevent spyware. Organizations are also seeking to filter general internet content to create a more productive environment.

The Barracuda Web Filter is an integrated anti-spyware and content filtering solution that is powerful, easy to use, and affordable for businesses of all sizes. It easily and completely eliminates spyware and other forms of malware from your organization. No more productivity loss trying to repair computers or make computers usable again.

Powerful, Enterprise-Class Solution

The Barracuda Web Filter combines preventative, reactive, and proactive measures to form a complete anti-spyware and content filter solution.

The Barracuda Web Filter:

Most spyware is installed onto computers without the user’s knowledge or consent. The Barracuda Web Filter blocks these types of installations, also known as drive-by installs or downloads, as well as any installation from known spyware web sites.

The Barracuda Web Filter also secures the organization against any pre-existing spyware installations by detecting spyware access to the Internet, notifying the administrator, and facilitating its removal.

The Barracuda Web Filter includes content filtering for many different categories of offensive content.

Easy to Use and Maintain

With no software to install or network modifications required, the Barracuda Web Filter is easy to set up. It has an intuitive user interface for maintenance and monitoring, making it a virtually administration-free solution. Even system updates are delivered automatically by Barracuda Central, an advanced technology center where engineers work continuously to provide the most effective methods to combat the ever changing spyware and virus variants. Updates are distributed hourly so that you are always protected against the latest threats.

Affordable

Large and small organizations alike demand solutions that are affordable not just today, but also in the future as they grow. The Barracuda Webfilter Firewall enables organizations to grow without having to worry about increasing user license fees. With no per user license fees, the Barracuda Webfilter Firewall is the most affordable anti-spyware and content filter solution available.