Barracuda extends its Cloud Ready program with a free 90-day cloud license

Barracuda Networks, Inc. has announced that it has expanded its Cloud Ready program to offer any organization a free 90-day cloud licence for Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda NextGen Firewall on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (Azure). These network and application security solutions are available as pay-as-you-go (PAYG) licences directly through the AWS marketplace and Azure marketplace.

Barracuda’s Cloud Ready program helps IT buyers secure their new or existing workloads in both AWS and Azure at no charge for 90 days. Barracuda’s Cloud Ready network and application security solutions can be natively deployed and fully integrated with AWS and Azure to amplify all the key benefits of the cloud through auto-scaling, templated configurations, bootstrapping, data-logging and more. Barracuda’s cloud-enabled security suite allows organizations to deploy their applications and workloads securely with the same powerful capabilities and intuitive user interface whether deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Barracuda offers a variety of flexible pricing options, including BYOL, PAYG and metered billing.

The cloud introduces new capabilities to scale network infrastructures and application workloads without the same cost and complexity of on-premises equipment. At the same time, migrating to the cloud can be a complicated process, and moving sensitive business applications to the cloud creates new security requirements. A recent Osterman Research study reported that most respondents cited security concerns as the most common barrier to cloud adoption, with primary concerns being data sovereignty and privacy (58 per cent) and general risk control (54 per cent). In addition, organizations often need to connect legacy on-premises infrastructure to their new cloud frameworks in a hybrid environment, which can create additional issues with management, access, and policy enforcement.

“Migrating legacy workloads or new applications to the cloud can be a significant effort, and many organizations make the costly mistake of blindly assuming their legacy on-premises security solutions will extend to the cloud without considering whether these solutions can meet the unique requirements of the cloud,” said Michael Hughes, Senior Vice-President of worldwide sales at Barracuda. “Barracuda’s security solutions are purpose built to bridge the gap between your on-premises and cloud infrastructures. Based on feedback from our public cloud partners who want to offer the same capabilities to their customers, we’ve expanded our Cloud Ready program to help simplify the process so that customers can move to the cloud faster, more cost effectively, and with greater confidence.”

Barracuda is the leader in public cloud security, with firewalls available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Customers deploying Barracuda solutions in cloud environments benefit from:

· Innovative security solutions: powerful and easy-to-use application security solutions built for the cloud.

· Simplified management across all environments: single pane of glass management across on-premises and cloud deployments, which means less difficult retraining or rethinking.

· Flexible deployment options: security solutions offered directly via AWS, Azure, and GCP, making it easier for customers to leverage hybrid cloud environments on any platform.