Case Study: Barracuda Networks achieves scalable, cost-efficient in-text search and faster customer onboarding with Microsoft Azure

Barracuda scales in-text search with Azure Data Explorer

Barracuda, a global provider of cloud-enabled enterprise cybersecurity, needed a way to deliver granular in‑text search for its Cloud‑to‑Cloud Backup service (covering Teams, Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive). The team required a cost‑efficient, reliable, secure platform that could return low‑latency search results and scale to support rapid customer growth and ad‑hoc restore workflows.

Barracuda adopted Azure Data Explorer, integrating it with existing Azure services (Blob Storage, AKS, Cosmos DB) and using per‑customer databases, KQL, and Azure Key Vault for secure, low‑overhead operations. The result was a largely hands‑off, scalable search platform that sped feature rollouts, reduced production time, and enabled the company to onboard thousands of customers in the first months while lowering management and infrastructure costs.

Barracuda Networks

Brad Voth

Senior Director of Engineering