Today's announcement expands the company's market-leading product portfolio across a variety of delivery models including appliance, virtual, SaaS and hybrid. Barracuda Virtual Appliances offer customers the flexibility to deploy the same powerful, plug-and-play features found in Barracuda Networks' appliances on hardware of their choice or into existing virtual frameworks. Barracuda Virtual Appliances currently support VMware ESX/ESXi platforms, with support for other virtualization platforms planned in the coming months.