Mimecast Cloud Archive vs Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service

Mimecast Cloud Archive9.3Visit Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service9.1Visit

Higher score Mimecast Cloud Archive #1 in Enterprise Information Archiving Software 9.3/10 Pricing on request ✓ 1 of 5 features Visit Mimecast

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

• Mimecast Cloud Archive fits best

  Large organizations needing established cloud archiving

• Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service fits best

  Enterprises archiving email and legacy IM

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Side by side

Feature	Mimecast Cloud Archive 9.3/10 Visit ↗	Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service 9.1/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.3	9.1
Ranking	#1 in Enterprise Information Archiving Software	#3 in Enterprise Information Archiving Software
Best for	Large organizations needing established cloud archiving	Enterprises archiving email and legacy IM
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	Pricing on request	Pricing on request
Free plan	Not checked yet	—
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud, Desktop, Mobile
Platforms	Web	Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android
Integrations	6 integrations	9 integrations
Features Mimecast Cloud Archive 1/5 · Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service 5/5
Email archiving	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
Collaboration sources	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
Retention controls	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
Legal hold	✓	✓
Search and export	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
Specs
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud
Our review
Pros	Policy-driven retention, legal hold, and eDiscovery case management Near-real-time search across archived email and collaboration data Triplicate storage across geographically diverse data centers	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.
Cons	Pricing requires a sales quotation rather than a public plan comparison Export is supported, but specific export formats are not documented The service is cloud-based and lists web as its platform	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.
Our verdict	Mimecast Cloud Archive is a cloud-based service for archiving email and collaboration data, aimed at organizations managing retention, compliance, legal discovery, and business continuity. It stores inbound, outbound, and internal email… Read the review →	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 →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Mimecast Cloud Archive — where it wins

  • Policy-driven retention, legal hold, and eDiscovery case management
  • Near-real-time search across archived email and collaboration data
  • Triplicate storage across geographically diverse data centers

  Where it doesn't

  • Pricing requires a sales quotation rather than a public plan comparison
  • Export is supported, but specific export formats are not documented
  • The service is cloud-based and lists web as its platform

• 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.

• Mimecast Cloud Archive9.3/10 · Pricing on request

  Enterprise archiving with policy-driven retention, legal hold, and collaboration capture.

  Visit MimecastFull verdict →
• Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service9.1/10 · Pricing on request

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

  Visit BarracudaFull verdict →