Barracuda Networks Expands European Headquarters

Basingstoke, UK, 21st July 2008 – Barracuda Networks Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, today announced the expansion of its European headquarters in Basingstoke, Hants, UK. The expansion will double the size of Barracuda Networks’ office space.

“Since opening our European office in 2004, we have grown to become the established market leader for email and Web content filtering appliances in the EMEA region,” said Paul Thackeray, vice president and managing director of Barracuda Networks, EMEA. “This facility’s expansion is necessary as we move to strengthen our sales and support teams and to provide additional space for inventory.”

Barracuda Networks continues to experience unparalleled success in the email, Web and IM security markets offering a range of security appliances that scale across the board from small-to-medium sized businesses right through to enterprise-level. The Barracuda Spam Firewall, Barracuda Web Filter and Barracuda IM Firewall are brand leaders in their respective market segments.

In late 2006, the company expanded its product portfolio with the launch of the Barracuda Load Balancer, an affordable, scalable and comprehensive solution for intelligently distributing network traffic across multiple servers. The product portfolio has lately been further expanded with the addition of the Barracuda Message Archiver a complete and affordable email archiving solution, in July 2007. In September 2007 Barracuda Networks acquired leading Web application security provider NetContinuum which led to the launch of the the Barracuda Web Site Firewall in April 2008.

Mailing address for the Barracuda Networks European headquarters remains unchanged at West Ham Industrial Estate, Grafton Way, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG22 6HY, United Kingdom.

About Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda Networks, Inc. is the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances. Barracuda Networks also provides world-class IM protection, application server load balancing and message archiving appliances. More than 50,000 companies, including Coca-Cola, FedEx, Harvard University, IBM, L'Oreal, NASA and Europcar, are protecting their networks with Barracuda Networks' solutions. Barracuda Networks' success is due to its ability to deliver easy to use, comprehensive solutions that solve the most serious issues facing customer networks without unnecessary add-ons, maintenance, lengthy installations or per user license fees. Barracuda Networks is privately held with its headquarters in Campbell, California, Barracuda Networks has offices in eight international locations and distributors in more than 80 countries worldwide. For more information, please visit www.barracuda.com.

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