Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of content security, data protection and application delivery solutions, announced the new Barracuda Backup Server 1090, one of the largest backup appliances on the market. With model 1090, Barracuda Backup, Barracuda’s number one selling product line, extends its flexible and simplified backup capabilities to protect even larger environments with 90TB of storage and allows customers to manage all their backups up on a single platform.

“Barracuda Networks continues to address tremendous market demand to simplify business backups by providing an end-to-end solution for protecting servers and applications in both physical and virtual environments,” said Guy Suter, general manager of the backup business. “The need for backup simplification spans all businesses, regardless of how much data they need to protect. The introduction of the Barracuda Backup Server 1090 is a direct result of customers asking for a single platform to use Barracuda’s end-to-end backup solution in larger environments. It’s this innovation and the continued commitment to our customers that drives our backup business, making it the fastest growing product at the company.”

The Barracuda Backup Server 1090 is an ideal solution for customers protecting up to 45-50TB of primary data, with the ability to store nearly 90TB of data including retention files and histories. Barracuda Backup customers experience storage savings 20 to 50 times greater than the storage needed for traditional backup methods. Additionally, the Barracuda Backup Server 1090 offers much faster speeds with 10Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE).

“The City of San Francisco's famous transportation system supports one of the most travelled cities in the world which creates a growing data storage requirement. As a Barracuda customer, we are impressed with how the company helps us meet this challenge.” said Hoppers Hopkins, IT Manager at The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. “The new 1090 gives us the space we need in a simple, single backup platform.”

As the new flagship model in the product lineup, the Barracuda Backup Server 1090 ships in a 4U chasis with (34) 3TB drives in RAID 60, powered by 32 cores and features large mirrored enterprise SSD drives to deliver fast database IO performance. Its impressive hardware configuration combines with industry leading backup technology to make this new class of backup appliance both big and fast.