Case Study: City of Lebanon, OH achieves regulatory compliance and reduced mail-server load with Barracuda Networks

The Barracuda Message Archiver Restores Order in the City of Lebanon

The City of Lebanon, Tennessee (population ~37,000) faced a growing compliance and infrastructure challenge: as a government entity it must preserve all emails, but maintaining the Exchange server, enforcing user archive behavior, and coping with bandwidth and storage strain taxed the city’s lone MIS director and existing systems.

The city deployed the Barracuda Message Archiver, a plug‑and‑play appliance that fully indexes and backs up email, applies built‑in retention policies, and stubs messages to free mailbox space—reclaiming about 16 GB from the mail server. Installation was quick, support was highly rated, and users can delete inbox mail while still accessing archived messages, simplifying management, ensuring compliance, and reducing server load.

City of Lebanon, OH

Mike Collingsworth

MIS Director