| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunication |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Campbell, California, United States |
| Key people | Dean Drako (CEO) Michael Perone (CMO) Zach Levow (CTO) |
| Products | Spam Firewalls, Web filters, IM firewalls, Load balancers, Email Archivers, Web Site Firewalls, SSL VPNs, Backup solutions, NG Firewalls, CudaTel PBX |
| Employees | 500-1000 |
| Website | www.barracudanetworks.com |
Barracuda Networks, Inc. is a privately held company providing security, networking and storage solutions based on appliances and cloud services. The company’s security products include solutions for protection against email, web surfing, web hackers and instant messaging threats such as spam, spyware, trojans, and viruses. The company's networking and storage solutions include web filtering, load balancing, application delivery controllers, [message archiving], NG firewalls, backup services and data protection.[1]
Barracuda Networks was established in 2003 and introduced the Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall.[2] In 2007 the company moved its headquarters to Campbell, California,[3] and opened an office in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[4]
In January 2006, it closed its first outside investment of $40 million from Sequoia Capital and Francisco Partners. Sequoia Capital had previously provided financing to Cisco Systems, Google, Netscreen, and Yahoo!.[5]
On January 29, 2008, Barracuda Networks was sued by Trend Micro over their use of the open source anti-virus software Clam AntiVirus, which Trend Micro claimed to be in violation of their patent on 'anti-virus detection on an SMTP or FTP gateway'.[6] In addition to providing samples of prior art in an effort to render Trend Micro's patent invalid, in July 2008 Barracuda launched a countersuit against Trend Micro claiming Trend Micro violated several antivirus patents Barracuda Networks had acquired from IBM.[7]
In December 2008, the company launched the BRBL (Barracuda Reputation Block List), its proprietary and dynamic list of known spam servers, for free and public use in blocking spam at the gateway.[8] Soon after opening BRBL many IP addresses got blacklisted without apparent reason and without any technical explanation.[9][10][11][12]
As of October 2009, Barracuda had over 85,000 customers.[13] As of November, 2011, Barracuda had more than 130,000 customers.[14]
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In September 2007, Barracuda Networks acquired NetContinuum, a company providing application controllers to secure and manage enterprise web applications.[29]
In November 2008, Barracuda Networks expanded into cloud-based backup services by acquiring BitLeap.[30]
In November 2008, Barracuda Networks acquired 3SP, allowing the company to introduce Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Network (VPN) products to perform malware scans on files uploaded during a VPN session to network file shares or internal Web sites.[31]
In January 2009, Barracuda Networks acquired Yosemite Technologies to add software agents for incremental backups of applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server, and Windows system states.[32]
September 2009, Barracuda Networks acquired controlling interest in phion AG, an Austria-based public company delivering enterprise-class firewalls.[33]
In October 2009, Barracuda Networks acquired Purewire Inc, a software as a service (SaaS) company offering cloud based web filtering and security.[34]