Barracuda Networks

Type	Private
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Campbell, California, United States
Key people	Dean Drako (CEO) Michael Perone (CMO) Zach Levow (CTO)
Industry	Telecommunication
Products	Spam Firewalls, Web filters, IM firewalls, Load balancers, Email Archivers, Web Site Firewalls, SSL VPNs, Backup solutions
Employees	500-1000
Website	www.barracudanetworks.com

Barracuda Networks, Inc. is a privately held company providing firewall products to block e-mail spam, spyware, viruses, and instant messaging spam, as well as servers for load balancing, and software for most of the above functions.

Barracuda Networks was established in 2002^[1] and since June 2007 is based in Campbell, California, having previously operated in Mountain View, California^[2] and Cupertino, California.

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!. Francisco Partners, whose founders include technology investment banker pioneer Sandy Robertson, is a large private equity firm.^[3]

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 claims to be in violation of their patent on 'anti-virus detection on an SMTP or FTP gateway'.^[4]. In addition to providing samples of prior art and pointing out possible procedurally issues that would render Trend Micro's patent invalid, Barracuda Networks launched a countersuit against Trend Micro claiming Trend Micro violated several antivirus patents Barracuda Networks had acquired from IBM.^[5]

On September 28, 2009, a voluntary public takeover bid by Barracuda Networks of phion, a provider of enterprise security solutions based out of Austria, was completed.^[6] Their offer of EUR 16 (totalling about USD$18.7 million), was accepted by more than 75% of phion's shareholders, giving Barracuda Networks controlling interest in the Austrian company.^[7][8]

On October 13, 2009, Barracuda Networks announced the acquisition of Purewire, a SaaS-based secure Web gateway provider. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.^[9][10]

[edit] Products

• Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall (formerly Barracuda Spam Firewall)
• Barracuda Web Filter (formerly Barracuda Spyware Firewall)
• Barracuda IM Firewall
• Barracuda Load Balancer
• Barracuda Link Balancer
• Barracuda Message Archiver
• Barracuda SSL VPN (from Nov 2008 acquisition of 3SP^[11])
• Barracuda Web Site Firewall (formerly Barracuda Web Application Controller^[12]; from Sept 2007 acquisition of NetContinuum)^[13]
• Barracuda Backup Service (from Nov 2008 acquisition of BitLeap^[14] and Jan 2009 acquisition of Yosemite Technologies^[15])
• BarracudaWare Yosemite Server Backup (from Yosemite Technologies acquisition)^[15]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Barracuda Networks corporate website