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The Bacula Systems Story

We know backup and recovery by heart.

Bacula Systems is the leading Enterprise Open Core backup and restore software company, combining Bacula’s enterprise-class open standards software with first-class support and professional services.

Traditional backup and recovery vendors are not architected to cope with a wide variety of systems in an effective way. This usually becomes untenable when a new requirement emerges and suddenly the customer learns there will be custom work or high contracting costs, or that it will not be supported until six to twelve months from now.

Bacula is different. We built our company with a modern, modular architecture that was designed using open principles for the new world of complexity and high data volume. We felt the whole mind-set of the backup industry which was built around metering data volume, was going to be untenable in a world where data volumes need to be free to grow.

Leveraging the millions of downloads of the community project, Bacula Enterprise is by far the most popular Open Core software solution for backup, data recovery and protection of computer data. Our software offers up to ten times lower total cost of ownership compared to proprietary solutions, higher reliability and proven performance in mission-critical enterprise environments. Bacula Systems provides world-class technical support, renowned training courses, and Bacula Enterprise products via the Bacula Systems Subscriptions
Bacula Systems Overview
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>3M downloads
Bacula Backup & Recovery project
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July 2008
Company founded
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August 2011
Capital round and accelerated development
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November 2019
Deduplication Patent
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Worldwide customer base
Including enterprises, governments, universities, NGOs, cloud providers and online service providers.
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HQ in Delaware
and Switzerland
Sales offices across Europe, the USA and Canada

Leadership by Data Protection Experts

Bacula Systems SA is founded and operated by a number of highly skilled professionals with an exceedingly good knowledge of all aspects of IT operations, business development, worldwide sales / marketing and business administration.

 

CEO
Frank Barker
CEO
Frank Barker is CEO at Bacula Systems. He started his IT career with Hewlett-Packard in the UK, rising through Support and Sales and into Management before moving to the EMEA headquarters in Geneva to run their Telco, Financial Services and Global Accounts businesses. He subsequently ran Hewlett Packard’s Consulting and Systems Integration business across EMEA, then moved to the US to set up a worldwide Division around cloud computing. Prior to Bacula Systems he has been CEO and Managing Director for several technology companies in software and security and has a track record of successfully growing technology companies. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an Honours Degree in Electronics from Strathclyde University in Scotland.
CEO
Kern Sibbald
CTO and Chairman
Kern Sibbald is the chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Bacula Systems. He designed and wrote most of the Bacula software; he manages the related open source project. Kern is a founder of Autodesk where he was development manager for AutoCAD, a highly successful CAD program. He established and was the Technical Director of Autodesk’s European software development center in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Kern holds a bachelors degree in physics from the University of California and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland.

CEO
Ludovic Piquerez
Director, Support
Ludovic Piquerez is the Director of Support at Bacula Systems. He worked in the IT support domain in various demanding industries specialized in healthcare, energy, technology and media. He founded his own company in IT services and developed it into a sustainable business in which open-source software integration was one of the main activities. In his late experience as IT Manager Europe, he implemented healthcare regulations. Ludovic has mentored teams of experts in three different continents. He has successfully resolved issues in challenging environments and succeeded in managing many parallel projects in a multi-customers environment. Ludovic holds a bachelor in Computer Science, major in Management Systems and a Master degree in Social and Political Sciences. He is certified in IT service management (ITIL) and IT governance (COBIT).
CEO
Eric Bollengier
Director of Engineering
Eric Bollengier is Director of Engineering at Bacula Systems. Since 2003 he has been an active member of the Bacula community. Eric has written significant parts of the Bacula software, and has also developed the B-Web user interface and reporting system for Bacula. Eric has previously worked as a system- and network-administrator. Eric holds a masters degree in microprocessor electronics from the Université du Maine and a DESS degree from the Université de Versailles Saint Quentin.

Where Does the Name “Bacula” Come From?

The word “Bacula” is combined by its founder Kern Sibbald from 2 separate words: “backup” itself and “Dracula” who comes at night and performs backups, silently taking out the data.