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"The cloud is dramatically changing the way we do business, and cloud-based communications offer partners an excellent opportunity to help their customers implement a solution that can efficiently scale along with them as their business grows," said Ken Grohe, senior vice president and general manager, Emerging Products, at Barracuda. "Customer satisfaction is central to everything we do at Barracuda, and that philosophy is aligned at RingCentral. RingCentral is a market leader in enterprise cloud phone solutions, and offers an alternative for Barracuda Phone System customers."

Barracuda today announced expanded data protection functionality in its Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup offering, with the addition of Microsoft SharePoint Online backup. The new feature provides businesses using SharePoint Online granular backup and recovery options with the ability to restore individual files that have been deleted, corrupted, or encrypted by ransomware – without having to complete a full recovery of the SharePoint environment. With the new SharePoint Online functionality, Barracuda offers affordable solutions to help customers running Office 365 detect, prevent, and recover from malicious attacks, and enables resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) to offer customers more robust email security and data protection offerings.

With the number of advanced threats on the rise and affecting companies of all sizes, Barracuda today announced availability of the new Barracuda Email Threat Scan for Office 365. Barracuda Email Threat Scan for Office 365 is a cloud-based service that gives customers an immediate view of their email security posture by identifying latent threats within their production corporate email environments. Barracuda recently analyzed 20,000 Office 365 mailboxes and found that 93 percent of accounts had at least one Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), with an average of 125 threats per account. APTs are sophisticated attacks designed to evade traditional email security filters in order to infiltrate corporate networks and steal sensitive or valuable data.

Barracuda today announced several new enhancements to its Barracuda Backup product line to enable faster backup and recovery performance, enhance public cloud support, and expand storage capacity for customers – all at competitive price points. The new Barracuda Backup version 6.3 provides customers with improved performance to more efficiently protect their data with a single solution regardless of whether data resides in physical, virtual or Office 365 SaaS environments. The new enhancements, which are available to both physical and virtual Barracuda Backup appliance customers with active subscriptions, boost initial backup speed and recovery performance, while shortening restore windows to improve recovery time objectives. This is especially important today where rampant ransomware attacks continue to increase risks of data theft. In fact, in a research survey conducted by Osterman Research, 49.4 percent of companies surveyed indicated they had been hit with one or more ransomware attacks in the last 12 months. A complete backup with an effective retention policy enables customers to recover from a ransomware attack without having to pay any ransom to the criminals holding the encryption keys to their important data.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, DATE 2016– Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA), a leading provider of cloud-enabled security and storage solutions, today shares key findings from a survey on cloud adoption by SMEs in the ASEAN region, including Malaysia.

“In today’s dynamic threat environment, MSPs are looking for new ways to protect their customers against targeted attacks and data loss,” said Brian Babineau, General Manager, MSP Solutions, at Barracuda. “With the addition of the award-winning Barracuda NextGen Firewall to our growing portfolio, we are empowering MSPs with a comprehensive way to easily manage multiple security and data protection solutions, while offering customers proven technologies to protect their networks and data against the most sophisticated attacks.”

Barracuda (NYSE: CUDA) and Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: CALD) today announced a relationship to embed the CudaSign eSignature platform into the CallidusCloud incentive compensation software offering to help drive sales productivity. CudaSign for CallidusCloud enables customers to speed compensation processes, helps ensure sales reps get paid faster, enables HR teams to more easily track signatures, and enables compliance with internal policies.

“While backup remains a critical part of data protection, MSPs need to take a more holistic approach by also proactively protecting their customers against targeted email threats such as phishing,” said Rick Faulk, vice president and general manager, MSP Solutions, at Barracuda. “By adding Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 to our MSP offering, we are providing our partners with another best-in-class solution that further enables them to securely protect their customers from data loss while improving efficiency, lowering operating costs, and allowing them to focus on their main priorities — delivering customer value and growing their businesses.”

Barracuda today announced immediate availability of CudaSign Enterprise, which extends the company’s cloud-based eSignature solution to enable enterprises to easily implement eSignatures at scale. With the inclusion of a number of enterprise-ready features, business application integrations, and Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 1 certification, CudaSign Enterprise allows organizations to obtain signatures from customers, partners, and employees in seconds, and significantly reduces document turnaround time.