Retrospect announced
the general availability release of Retrospect Backup 17 and Retrospect Virtual
2020, as well as updates to its Retrospect Management Console. Retrospect's
suite of products now provide hosted management service for automatic
onboarding of physical and virtual backup instances, enabling fast deployment
and increased protection leveraging ProactiveAI across an entire organization.
IT administrators depend on streamlined workflows to deploy
services and support within their organization. With automatic onboarding,
administrators can share a single URL with their entire company, and each
employee can download the client for their platform, pre-packaged with a public
key for authentication. There are no user passwords, and Retrospect Backup 17
will automatically add the new clients and start protecting them using
ProactiveAI.
With Retrospect Virtual 2020, businesses can monitor their
physical and virtual backup infrastructure from a single pane of glass via the
Retrospect Management Console. Retrospect Virtual 2020 is now integrated with
the hosted service to enable one place to monitor every protected
machine-Windows, Mac, Linux, VMware, and Hyper-V.
"There are a multitude of avenues that lead to data loss for
businesses, including ransomware, accidents, and disasters," said Mihir Shah,
CEO of StorCentric, parent company of Retrospect. "Retrospect enables any
business to backup their entire infrastructure and restore a file or a system
to a single point in time-days, months, or years in the past. The ubiquity of
ransomware means businesses need a data protection strategy, with on-site
backups for fast restore and an off-site location. Retrospect makes it a click
away."
Retrospect Backup 17
Also included in Retrospect Backup 17:
-
10x Faster ProactiveAI - ProactiveAI has been
optimized to handle many more sources with different storage profiles.
Customers with endpoints that are offline at various times will see a 10x
performance increase in how fast Retrospect Backup 17 finds the next available
computer.
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Restore Preflight - Large-scale data
protection-relying on highly-optimizes storage configurations like hundreds of
tapes or Amazon Glacier- strategies require preflight capabilities to ensure a
fast operation, and Retrospect Backup 17 allows customers to export a preflight
summary including backup files and tape information.
-
Nexsan Certification - Retrospect Backup 17 is now
certified for Nexsan E-Series and Nexsan Unity storage devices.
Retrospect Virtual 2020
Also included in Retrospect Virtual 2020:
- 50% Faster Performance - Retrospect Virtual 2020 is now up
to 50% faster at backup.
- Wasabi Cloud Support - Retrospect Virtual 2020 includes
support for Wasabi Cloud as a destination.
- Backblaze B2 Support - Retrospect Virtual 2020 includes
support for Backblaze B2 as a destination.
- Updated Linux Support - Retrospect Virtual 2020 supports
Ubuntu 19.04 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
- Flexible Licensing - Retrospect Virtual 2020 supports
flexible VM licensing. Customers can use a socket or guest license for
either VMware or Hyper-V.
Availability
Retrospect Backup 17 and Retrospect Virtual 2020 are available
immediately. These versions are free updates for customers with current
qualifying annual support and maintenance contracts and are immediately
available for purchase from your preferred reseller or retrospect.com as an electronic download.
Retrospect Backup and Retrospect Virtual are available in 6 languages: English,
French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.
Pricing for Retrospect
ranges from $49 for Retrospect Solo, which protects a single non-server
computer, to $4,299 for Retrospect Multi Server Premium, which protects as many
Mac, Windows, and Linux servers and PCs as your bandwidth and storage capacity will
allow. Upgrades range from $29 to $2,699. (All prices listed above are MSRP in
USD.) Special pricing is available for Education, Government, and Non-Profit
settings. For a complete listing of new and upgrade product pricing, please
visit
retrospect.com.