Bacula Enterprise uses a straightforward subscription model with annual payments, designed to combine cost transparency and predictable budgeting. It does not use any common capacity-based penalties that would dramatically increase the solution’s costs as your data grows.
What is included?
Every Bacula subscription offers the following:
- The entire Bacula Enterprise software suite
- BWeb Management Suite (a web-based administration console)
- Technical support capabilities without any limitations
- All of the future patches, updates, and version changes
Lack of hidden costs
Bacula differs from many solutions that use capacity-based licensing models by refusing to charge for data volume, storage space consumed, or front-end terabytes protected. Additionally, there are no surprise fees for infrastructure scaling, and CPU multi-tier penalties are absent.
How the licensing model operates
Bacula’s subscription tiers vary based on the total number of secured endpoints and the required support response times. An endpoint could be a physical server, a virtual machine, a container, a desktop, a laptop, or a mobile device. This per-agent approach enables businesses to protect petabytes of information without paying exorbitant prices for their storage footprint.
Some of the more extensive subscription tiers are also made specifically for HPCs – High Performance Computing Clusters. This includes Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, and Diamond tiers. Bacula’s ability to provide a completely predictable pricing model based on the number of CPU cores in an HPC environment sets it apart from many traditional vendors. With this model, costs are always stable and transparent, irrespective of the overall data volume. Each client knows exactly how much they are paying at all times, irrespective of whether they have terabytes or petabytes of data to cover.
