Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Vx, NICE!
I got the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Vx virtual appliance working in less than 30 minutes, it’s really easy to setup and use, there is almost no learning curve if your job involving managing email server daily.
In fact, I almost got a Barracuda 300 back in 2008, but the performance back then wasn’t good, now with the VM version, it’s lightening fast, thanks to latest CPU and Equallogic SAN, so I may eventually purchase one of these nice stuff for my clients this month.
One major drawback is the lack of comprehensive reporting capability even after almost 10 years of it’s product life. It can’t even provide simple things like list the top 100 domain name with most email usage and size for a specific day or time, list the top user who used the most email bandwidth, etc. Without this kind of reporting capability, I would say Barracuda can never make to the real ISP enterprise market, it’s good for SMB though.
PS. I just found out Barracuda Networks introduced the Barracuda Reputation Block List (b.barracudacentral.org) for free! Of course, you need to register your DNS server first in order to use it.
