Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service vs Archive360

Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service9.1Visit Archive3608.8Visit

Higher score Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service #3 in Enterprise Information Archiving Software 9.1/10 Pricing on request ✓ 5 of 5 features Visit Barracuda

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Archive360 #5 in Enterprise Information Archiving Software 8.8/10 Pricing on request ✓ 1 of 5 features Visit Archive360

• Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service fits best

  Enterprises archiving email and legacy IM

• Archive360 fits best

  Enterprises archiving data across many source systems

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Side by side

Feature	Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service 9.1/10 Visit ↗	Archive360 8.8/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.1	8.8
Ranking	#3 in Enterprise Information Archiving Software	#5 in Enterprise Information Archiving Software
Best for	Enterprises archiving email and legacy IM	Enterprises archiving data across many source systems
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	Pricing on request	Pricing on request
Free plan	—	Not checked yet
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud, Desktop, Mobile	Cloud
Platforms	Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android	Web
Support	Email, Phone, Live chat, Community, Docs	Email, Tickets, Phone, Docs · 24/7
Compliance	2FA	GDPR, HIPAA
Integrations	9 integrations	100+ integrations
Built for	Mid-market, Enterprise	Enterprise
Features Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service 5/5 · Archive360 1/5
Email archiving	✓ (best)	Not checked yet
Collaboration sources	✓ (best)	Not checked yet
Retention controls	✓ (best)	Not checked yet
Legal hold	✓	✓
Search and export	✓ (best)	Not checked yet
Specs
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud
Our review
Pros	Retention policies, legal holds, audit trails, and exports support e-discovery. Boolean, full-text, and metadata search with saved searches. Access through web, Outlook add-in, desktop, and mobile apps.	Captures communications, files, databases and enterprise application data. Combines retention policies, legal holds, eDiscovery and audit trails. Searches, exports and retrieves data across sources, with migration support.
Cons	Pricing is provided through a sales inquiry rather than public per-user rates. Instant-message archiving is limited to supported Lync and Skype for Business versions. Its focus is email and legacy IM rather than a broad range of collaboration sources.	Contact-sales purchasing makes budgeting less direct. Enterprise focus may exceed the needs of smaller organizations. Broad source coverage may require careful policy and access configuration.
Our verdict	Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service is a cloud-hosted archive for organizations that need to retain, retrieve, and investigate business email. It captures messages through SMTP journaling or direct retrieval from supported email servers,… Read the review →	Archive360 is a cloud-based data archiving and governance platform for regulated enterprises and government agencies. It is designed for organizations that need to preserve information across communications, files, databases, enterprise… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service — where it wins

  • Retention policies, legal holds, audit trails, and exports support e-discovery.
  • Boolean, full-text, and metadata search with saved searches.
  • Access through web, Outlook add-in, desktop, and mobile apps.

  Where it doesn't

  • Pricing is provided through a sales inquiry rather than public per-user rates.
  • Instant-message archiving is limited to supported Lync and Skype for Business versions.
  • Its focus is email and legacy IM rather than a broad range of collaboration sources.

• Archive360 — where it wins

  • Captures communications, files, databases and enterprise application data.
  • Combines retention policies, legal holds, eDiscovery and audit trails.
  • Searches, exports and retrieves data across sources, with migration support.

  Where it doesn't

  • Contact-sales purchasing makes budgeting less direct.
  • Enterprise focus may exceed the needs of smaller organizations.
  • Broad source coverage may require careful policy and access configuration.

• Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service9.1/10 · Pricing on request

  A focused cloud archive for email compliance, e-discovery, and legacy IM retention.

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• Archive3608.8/10 · Pricing on request

  Broad cloud archiving, retention and eDiscovery for enterprises with diverse data sources.

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