Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service vs OpenText InfoArchive

Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service9.1Visit OIOpenText InfoArchive9.0Visit

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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OI OpenText InfoArchive #4 in Enterprise Information Archiving Software 9.0/10 Pricing on request ✓ 1 of 5 features Visit site

• Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service fits best

  Enterprises archiving email and legacy IM

• OpenText InfoArchive fits best

  Enterprises preserving varied historical information

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Side by side

Feature	Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service 9.1/10 Visit ↗	OIOpenText InfoArchive 9.0/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.1	9.0
Ranking	#3 in Enterprise Information Archiving Software	#4 in Enterprise Information Archiving Software
Best for	Enterprises archiving email and legacy IM	Enterprises preserving varied historical information
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	Pricing on request	Pricing on request
Free plan	—	Not checked yet
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud, Desktop, Mobile	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android	Web
Support	Email, Phone, Live chat, Community, Docs	Docs, Community
Compliance	2FA	HIPAA
Integrations	9 integrations	6 integrations
Built for	Mid-market, Enterprise	Enterprise
Features Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service 5/5 · OpenText InfoArchive 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	Not checked yet
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.	Centralizes structured and unstructured information for long-term access Combines event-based retention, legal holds and audit controls Offers cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployment options
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.	Pricing requires contacting OpenText sales Its enterprise focus may not suit smaller organizations Listed support channels are documentation and community
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 →	OpenText InfoArchive preserves structured and unstructured information in a centralized archive, with a focus on enterprises that need to retain historical records and keep them accessible. Organizations can use it to decommission… 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.

• OpenText InfoArchive — where it wins

  • Centralizes structured and unstructured information for long-term access
  • Combines event-based retention, legal holds and audit controls
  • Offers cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployment options

  Where it doesn't

  • Pricing requires contacting OpenText sales
  • Its enterprise focus may not suit smaller organizations
  • Listed support channels are documentation and community

• 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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• OIOpenText InfoArchive9.0/10 · Pricing on request

  A centralized archive for enterprise records, retention controls and historical-data access.

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