Barracuda Networks
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California |
| Key people | CEO: Dean Drako |
| Industry | Telecommunications Equipment |
| Products | E-mail spam firewalls, Spyware, Instant Messaging firewalls |
| Revenue | ? |
| Employees | 250–500 |
| Slogan | The trusted, reliable choice for spam, spyware and virus blocking. |
| Website | www.barracudanetworks.com |
Barracuda Networks, Inc. is a privately held company providing firewall products to block e-mail spam, viruses, spyware and instant messaging software.
Barracuda Networks was established in 2002[1] and since July 2005[2] is based in Mountain View, California, having operated from Cupertino, California for its first three years.
The company's first offering and premier product is the anti-spam appliance named Barracuda Spam Firewall[3] — a dedicated firewall computer running a hardened Linux-based system. Released to the market in October 2003[4], it has since won several awards from trade publications[5]. The product accepts SMTP traffic and analyzes the source and content of each inbound e-mail message, then makes a decision to allow, tag, quarantine, or block. Allowed and tagged traffic is passed on to the next SMTP system in the path, generally an organization's MTA. Several models are available to support different levels of traffic and numbers of domains. Systems can cluster to allow for increased capacity and/or fault tolerance.
In April 2005[6] the Barracuda Spyware Firewall was released to the market. On 2006-08-15[7] Barracuda renamed the device to the Barracuda Web Filter[8] to reflect the more general web content filtering capabilities that had been added to the product since its introduction.
In September 2005[9] Barracuda announced the Barracuda IM Firewall[10] at a conference. In February 2006 it was released in the United States, and it was released in Europe in March 2006[11].
[edit] References
- ^ Company Overview. Barracuda Networks. Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ Barracuda Networks Moves Headquarters To Mountain Viewl. Barracuda Networks (2005-07-18). Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ Spam Firewall Overview. Barracuda Networks. Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ Barracuda Networks Launches Spam and Virus Firewall. Barracuda Networks (2003-10-13). Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ Awards. Barracuda Networks. Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ Barracuda Networks Launches First Integrated Anti-Spyware and Web Filtering Gateway Appliance. Barracuda Networks (2005-04-18). Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ Award-winning Barracuda Spyware Firewall Officially Becomes Barracuda Web Filter. Barracuda Networks (2006-08-15). Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ Web Filter Overview. Barracuda Networks. Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ Barracuda Networks Launches The Barracuda IM Firewall At The Demofall 2005 Conference. Barracuda Networks (2005-09-19). Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ IM Firewall Overview. Barracuda Networks. Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ Barracuda IM Firewall. IT-Observer (2006-03-03). Retrieved on January 23, 2007.
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