Case Study: South Carolina Heart Center achieves dramatic spam and virus reduction plus $500,000+ annual savings with Barracuda Networks' Spam Firewall 300

South Carolina Heart Center Beats Spam with Barracuda Networks

South Carolina Heart Center, the largest private cardiovascular practice in the Southeast with 28 cardiologists and over 250 staff across multiple offices, relies on email for critical patient care. Increasing spam—sometimes more than 200 junk messages per user per day—was disrupting communication and risking downtime that the practice could not afford.

The Center deployed the Barracuda Spam Firewall 300, a cost-effective, no-per-user appliance that was live within an hour and began blocking spam immediately. In three days it stopped 45,000 spam messages and 95 viruses, and the IT team estimated nearly $500,000 in annual productivity gains plus $100,000 in virus-related savings, delivering rapid ROI and restored email reliability.

South Carolina Heart Center

Jacob Nyhart

Network Administrator