Bacula Systems

Bacula Systems sells enterprise backup and restore software that grows out of the community Bacula project. Its commercial edition adds subscription support, training and professional services. The company states that its open standards approach lowers ownership costs compared with proprietary products.

What Bacula Systems offers

• Bacula Enterprise Edition — subscription-based network backup, recovery and data protection software.
• Technical support — help desk plans for subscribers, tied to their subscription level.
• Training courses — instruction for system administrators.
• Professional services — consulting around deployments.

Who it works with

Large organisations running mission-critical environments, from data centres to service providers. The older profile names NASA, Bank of Austria, Swisscom and Sky among adopters.

Key facts

• Model: open core, built on the community Bacula project
• Licensing: sold by subscription