BarracudaONE: Benefits for one early adopter

Colin Petty, the IT Director at Gridworks, doesn’t consider himself an early adopter. But when he was offered early access to BarracudaONE’s unified control interface for the entire BarracudaONE integrated security platform, he dove right in.

As a longstanding member of Barracuda Insiders, our customer-advocacy and rewards program, Colin felt that he’d gotten enough benefits that he had an obligation to try it out and provide his feedback to the teams who were still refining the offering for general release.

What he found was that the BarracudaONE platform delivered extensive benefits in the form of common tasks that are much simpler and more intuitive, along with vastly improved visibility and control across his entire security infrastructure.

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Loyalty earned

Colin and his five-person team had already been using Barracuda Email Protection to protect Gridworks’ roughly 500 users from email-borne threats, and they were very satisfied with its effectiveness and ease of use.

So when they needed a new backup system, Colin turned to Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup.

“We were using a cumbersome backup system that required lots of hands-on admin. It became unsustainable as our data volume grew. So, we tried Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, and it was exactly what we needed.”

— Colin Petty, IT Director, Gridworks

Specifically, Colin found that Cloud-to-Cloud Backup saved his team considerable time and effort by simplifying frequent tasks.

“For example: Anytime we off-board an employee? We go and grab a PST of all their emails, and we grab a copy of their OneDrive account. And in the past doing that with Microsoft’s tools was difficult and time-consuming. With Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, I’m sure I’m saving at least fifty percent of the time that used to take. It really saved the day for us.”

— Colin Petty, IT Director, Gridworks

Amplifying benefits with BarracudaONE

Once he gained access to BarracudaONE, Colin quickly found that its benefits dramatically increased the value that had already been key to what he liked most about Barracuda security.

“The Barracuda Email Protection components were already pretty well integrated; it’s something we liked about it. But the BarracudaONE platform is a huge leap forward. Going to a single URL and just clicking from one solution to another, pulling up data from different sources — you really feel that you’re in direct control of the entire infrastructure via a single pane of glass.”

— Colin Petty, IT Director, Gridworks

“Whether I’m reviewing alert logs from Impersonation Protection, using Incident Response to find and purge malicious emails or restoring specific data from Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, BarracudaONE makes everything easier, simpler and more intuitive. Which means faster.”

— Colin Petty, IT Director, Gridworks

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The Gridworks case study is very informative, and Colin is a great communicator when it comes to the ways that he and his team benefit from the BarracudaONE integrated cybersecurity platform. Check it out.