Acquisition to help company expand in application delivery controller market

Barracuda Networks Inc, email and Web security appliances provider, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of NetContinuum, provider of Web Application Firewalls.

The addition of NetContinuum's products to Barracuda Networks' product portfolio puts the company in a strong position to expand customer adoption of Application Delivery Controllers (ADC), Barracuda Networks said in a statement.

"NetContinuum is a recognized leader in the ADC market and this acquisition will enable Barracuda Networks to offer easy-to-use appliances that secure Web sites," said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. "By combining Barracuda Networks' strengths and sales channel reach with very mature and highly acclaimed NetContinuum products, we are confident that we will deliver industry-leading capabilities to a set of customers who had previously been unable to deploy Web site security solutions."

"We are finding that a large number of e-commerce providers are not protecting their Web sites, leaving their Web sites vulnerable to attacks that gain unauthorized access, steal customer data, or deface the Web site itself," said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda Networks.

As part of the acquisition, Barracuda Networks plans to maintain support for NetContinuum's existing products as well as to increase investment in product development in the ADC product category. In addition, the majority of NetContinuum's 75 employees have also joined the Barracuda Networks team.

Barracuda Networks will continue to work with all NetContinuum sales channel partners.