Case Study: Pickens County School District achieves fast, compliant email archiving with Barracuda Networks' Message Archiver 650

School District Stays Compliant with the Barracuda Message Archiver

Pickens County School District, a 30-location public system in South Carolina supporting roughly 2,500 email users, faced compliance and e-discovery challenges after its previous archiving products proved slow, cumbersome, hard to manage, and unreliable. Director of Technology Andy Coleman needed a solution that could quickly retrieve past and deleted emails to satisfy subpoenas and daily administrative needs without installing client software on every machine.

The district deployed the Barracuda Message Archiver 650, leveraging its fast, comprehensive search (including deleted items), easy export to PST/ZIP, and centralized management via Barracuda Cloud Control. The result was dramatic time savings—searches now return in minutes rather than hours—simplified administration with automatic updates, and reliable support, making subpoena and compliance requests effortless.

Pickens County School District

Andy Coleman

Director of Technology