Retrospect, a StorCentric company, announced
the general availability of Retrospect Backup 18 and Retrospect Virtual 2021,
featuring new ransomware protection and security enhancements designed to
enable businesses to further fortify themselves against accidents and malicious
threats. The industry's most flexible backup solution also includes a smooth
new first launch experience, deeper reporting and cloud data protection across
Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage and more.
Ransomware
attacks are increasingly sophisticated, having the capability of watching for
cloud account credentials, deleting backups and cloud storage, and then
encrypting everything and demanding a ransom. It's imperative to build defenses
against this escalating attack risk. SMBs, large businesses, and enterprise
organizations need a backup target that allows them to lock backups for a
designated time period. Many of the major cloud providers now support object
locking, also referred to as Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) storage or immutable
storage. Users can mark objects as locked for a designated period of time,
preventing them from being deleted or altered by any user.
"Retrospect
Backup v18 has been uniquely engineered to integrate seamlessly with this new
object lock feature to create immutable backups. Users can set a retention
period for immutable backups stored on supporting cloud platforms. Within this
immutable retention period, backups cannot be deleted by any user, even if
ransomware or a malicious actor acquires the root credentials," said JG
Heithcock, General Manager, Retrospect, a StorCentric Company. "Retrospect
Backup 18's powerful policy-based scheduling allows it to predict when those
backups will leave the retention policy and protect any files that will no
longer be retained, ensuring businesses always have point-in-time backups to
restore within the immutable retention policy window."
Included in Retrospect Backup 18
- Ransomware
Protection -
Enables users to set immutable retention periods and policies within
Amazon S3, Wasabi, and Backblaze B2 and supports bucket-level object lock
in Google Cloud Storage and Microsoft Azure.
- Enhanced
Data Management Platform
- Security
Reporting - Surfaces
the wealth of data it can see into a broad set of reporting improvements
to bring security to the forefront. Retrospect Backup now includes the
same detailed backup report for Windows, Mac, Email, Export and the
Management Console, ensuring a clear, consistent experience across each
product.
- Geo
Tracking - Retrospect
Management Console supports geo tracking with a worldwide map of all
users, Retrospect Backup servers, and remote clients, down to the
city.
- Simple,
Easy to use Monitoring -
Monitor all backups and seamlessly implement a full system backup
recovery for your entire environment.
- Significantly
Improved Ease of Use -
Includes a completely redesigned first launch workflow. With just a single
click, all sources and possible destinations can be viewed and added. IT
can now also send a single download link for a 1-click install to the
entire company/organization or specific individuals.
- Cloud-Native - Deployment and protection on Amazon S3, Google Cloud and
now Microsoft Azure enables businesses to protect their cloud
infrastructure with the same set of tools they use to protect their
on-premise infrastructure, while lowering costs and optimizing
bandwidth.
Included in Retrospect Virtual 2021:
- Faster Backups - Up to 300% faster
backups.
- Improved
Backup Server Performance
- Optimized resource utilization (memory, CPU, cache) for better
performance with less resources required.
- Increased
Security - Support
for password age and complexity requirement for system and sub admin users
and a new feature to prevent session hijacking by forcing a logout if the
session IP changes.
- Deeper
Data Integrity -
Automated and enhanced data integrity checks to ensure data is never
lost.
- Broader
Platform Support -
Support for VMware ESXi and vCenter 7.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2019, Ubuntu
20.04 LTS, Oracle 19c, and MariaDB.
"I've
been using Retrospect in deployments from a single server & 10 clients to
dozens of servers & hundreds of clients and it's an amazing product for the
price point. Nothing I've tried has ever been better. No company or product
covering such a critical component of IT has kept my mind at ease since I came
across it at version 9.0. Orders of magnitude less expensive than other
products, far more configurable, easier to understand, setup & maintain
than anything I've used in 20 years of IT contracting. Technical support
is top notch. Basic configuration to highly technical issues that resulted in
bug reports then near immediate interim version releases with specific fixes is
unparalleled for such an amazing product." -
Thomas Winters, Torr Technologies Inc.
Pricing and Free 30-Day Trial
For
Retrospect Backup pricing details, please visit: https://www.retrospect.com/en/store. To request a free 30-day
trial, please visit: https://www.retrospect.com/en/store/trial?locale=en.