Case Study: Almond Board of California achieves simplified, cloud-connected backups and 80% less backup management time with Barracuda Backup (Barracuda Networks)

Barracuda Backup Reduces Complexity

The Almond Board of California, which represents over 6,000 growers and manages production, marketing and regulatory reporting, needed to replace a time‑consuming, unreliable tape-based system and complex Symantec Backup Exec setup. Director of IT John Joyner sought a simpler, lower‑cost backup and disaster‑recovery solution that could meet long‑term retention and compliance requirements.

They deployed Barracuda Backup 690 along with Barracuda Message Archiver and Spam Firewall, using deduplication and replication to Barracuda Cloud Storage for offsite vaulting. The solution was fast to install, cut the storage footprint by about 70%, reduced backup management time by roughly 80% (to under an hour per week), enabled reliable restores—including mission‑critical database recovery after a site incident—and delivered predictable cloud costs and compliance-friendly retention.

Almond Board of California

John Joyner

IT Manager