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Barracuda Backup Server Boosts Replication Capabilities: Page 2 of 2

Barracuda added the replication functionality, which has been in beta testing for two or three months, at the request of its customers, says Guy Suter, general manager of the backup division for the Campbell, Calif., company. Its users were saying that they liked the product but had a disaster recovery site of their own, and instead of using Barracuda's cloud to store their data, they wished to use their own, either because the company had already made an investment in a disaster recovery site or due to regulatory concerns regarding control of the data, he says.

Barracuda prices its products by having users buy the appliance and then charging a flat fee for a subscription service, with cloud-based storage on top of that. The appliance comes in six models, starting at $999, with a total of up to 24TBytes of addressable storage.

The flat fee includes support and maintenance software upgrades and a software license, and varies depending on the size of the appliance, starting at about $300 per year. Cloud-based data storage is available for 50 cents per gigabyte per month, and is sold in 100-gigabyte increments. The new firmware is available now.

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