VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Barracuda Networks has strengthened its executive leadership team with the appointment of Hatem Naguib as Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Security Business, and Ezra Hookano as Vice President of Channels. “With the dynamic changes in the IT landscape, sophisticated security threats, and ongoing demands on IT professionals to affordably manage the ever-expanding network, our customers face enormous challenges. Hatem’s experience in building a fast growing security product line at a growing technology company, coupled with Ezra’s extensive knowledge of the channel, undoubtedly will give us the opportunity to continue to strengthen Barracuda’s position as the go-to provider of security and data protection,” said BJ Jenkins, President & CEO, Barracuda ... Read More

Intending to support businesses with compliance and address eDiscovery requests, Barracuda has announced availability of the new Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service. Barracuda has also outlined its Microsoft Office 365 strategic initiative designed to help organizations manage their businesses more easily, securely, and efficiently when moving to, and operating in, Office 365. The new cloud-based archiving service supports the company’s Office 365 initiative and when used in Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, or hybrid environments compliance is easy to demonstrate... Read more

Barracuda has introduced Barracuda Backup Vx, a new deployment option for Barracuda Backup aimed at organizations looking to reduce onsite hardware through virtualization. Barracuda Backup Vx uses both inline target-based de-duplication and compression to reduce storage and bandwidth requirements, and easily scale storage as data grows, eliminating the need for forklift upgrades. “Barracuda Backup Vx further expands the flexibility and virtualization support we are able to offer our customers, especially those who are moving away from physical infrastructure. Part of providing complete data protection means that we need to offer customers the option to deploy our products in a way that makes the most sense for their environments – whether that’s in the form of a physical appliance, a cloud solution, or a virtual appliance,” explains Rod Mathews, .. Read more

To reinforce its position, Barracuda has enhanced its channel program to provide the necessary structure and tools to allow resellers to successfully sell and support Barracuda solutions for mutual customers. The new program is designed to accelerate profitability for loyal partners, and to attract new, motivated partners. “Over the years, we have added a tremendous amount of innovative technologies to our solution portfolio to provide our channel partners with the bestMichael Hughes Barracuda 300x300 Barracuda enhances worldwide Partner Program possible options to solve security and storage challenges for customers. We will continue to focus on ensuring our partners are equipped with the necessary tools and resources to solve these IT challenges, but also better aligning the program to meet the different needs of resellers at every partner level,” said Michael Hughes, SVP – Worldwide Sales, Barracuda. In an effort to reward and better support VARs at all levels of the partner p...

McAfee Labs, Palo Alto Networks and Symantec, co-founders of the cyber threat alliance, have announced that Barracuda Networks, ReversingLabs, Telefónica and Zscaler have joined the Cyber Threat Alliance in their efforts to make united progress in the fight against sophisticated cyber adversaries. The mission of the Cyber Threat Alliance is to drive a coordinated industry effort against cyber adversaries through deep collaboration on threat intelligence and sharing indicators of compromise. “We appreciate the charter of the Cyber Threat Alliance and believe there should be closer collaboration across security researchers, industry, education, and government. We look forward to sharing critical data across threat vectors that can be leveraged not only for delivering Total Threat Protection for our customers but also toward benefiting the community as a whole,” said Stephen Pao, GM – Security, Barracuda, which provides cloud-connected security and storage solutions that simplify ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Seagate has streamlined its flagship family of desktop drives under a single product that hones in on performance and big capacities to help satisfy the explosive growth in content creation and consumption by businesses and consumers worldwide. The new Barracuda family makes it easier for consumers to find the product they need and reduces costs for Seagate's original equipment manufacturer and distribution channel customers by reducing the number of product qualifications and amount of inventory they need to manage. Rajesh Khurana, Country Manager India & SAARC, Seagate Technology said, "A simpler desktop drive product family is exactly what Seagate customers are asking for. The new Barracuda family reflects the reality that end-users want a full range of hard drive capacities and as much performance as we can give them to help manage and store massive amounts of digital content. In addition, our OEM and channel customers want ...