March 1, 2016PLEASANTON, Calif.— March 1, 2016—Retrospect®, Inc., makers of award-winning Retrospect Backup & Recovery software, today introduced a full hybrid backup solution with the release of Retrospect v11 for Windows and Retrospect v13 for Mac. This latest version supports integrated cloud backup to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, DreamHost, and other Retrospect-certified cloud storage providers.
Off-site data protection is a critical piece of any business’s data protection strategy, as corporate data is always at risk from accidental loss, malicious threats, or natural disasters. Keeping a copy of critical data in a separate location safeguards it against loss, providing a further layer of protection. In addition, an off-site location can securely store archived content that is no longer in use.
Cloud backup to third-party cloud storage providers allows Retrospect customers a seamless way to protect their Windows, Mac, and Linux environment off-site. Retrospect is certified for cloud storage with worldwide cloud storage providers Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage, as well as regional cloud storage providers DreamHost, Dunkel, ArubaCloud, and Numergy. A full list of certified providers is available at retrospect.com/cloudcertified.
According to Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services [1], “customers should consider augmenting their on-premises environments with public cloud storage for use cases such as content distribution, media streaming, archiving, backup and disaster recovery”. Their report names Amazon and Google as leaders in the public cloud storage market, noting their aggressive pricing and continued innovation.
Retrospect’s cloud backup support offers a number of advantages:
“The addition of public and private cloud backup to Retrospect is great news for companies that want the ability to back up to a medium that is on site as well as having the safety net of data being stored off site,” said Owen Williams, IT Collective.
Retrospect Partners are now able to become “Cloud Certified” with our new Cloud Certification Program. Partners can set up their own private cloud solution for their customers to use, and Retrospect will certify and call out these new “Cloud Certified” partners at retrospect.com/cloudcertified.
Retrospect v11 for Windows and Retrospect v13 for Mac include a new performance-optimized grooming mode that is up to 5x faster. With grooming, customers stay protected with a long-term backup retention policy to ensure recovery from yesterday, last week, last month, or five years ago, using storage that fits their budget. Performance-optimized grooming enables customers to quickly leverage this space-saving process.
“Retrospect's new faster grooming is a welcome enhancement giving us more flexibility for our clients' backup strategies,” said Ernst Mulder, GrafiSIS & AdvieSIS BV.
This latest release also offers other features and performance enhancements:
“Retrospect now represents the hybrid Backup and Disaster Recovery solution of choice for SMBs, with the added safety and security of cloud backups complementing the easy accessibility of primary onsite backups for improved business continuity after a data loss,” says Jean-Christian Dumas, Vice President of Worldwide Sales. “Of course we have selected and certified trusted cloud providers to ensure that our customers’ data is uploaded and stored at the highest level of security, and that it can be quickly available in case of a local disaster. Our cloud solution is also very flexible, so our customers and service providers can move their data from one cloud storage provider to another, should they need or decide to. Retrospect’s flexibility extends to both on-site and off-site protection, allowing us to serve the SMB market in the best possible way.”
Retrospect v11 for Windows and Retrospect v13 for Mac are available immediately. These versions are free updates for customers with current qualifying annual support and maintenance contracts and are immediately available from resellers or retrospect.com as an electronic download. Retrospect is available in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.
Pricing for Retrospect ranges from $119 for Retrospect Desktop, which protects a single non-server computer and up to five additional networked computers, to $3,999 for Retrospect Multi Server, which protects as many Mac, Windows, and Linux servers and PCs as your bandwidth and storage capacity will allow. Upgrades range from $69 to $2,509. (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.
Retrospect backup and recovery software provides small and midsize businesses with the reliability, ease of use, power, and flexibility needed to protect critical data on mixed-platform networks. Retrospect offers local and offsite backups, precise point-in-time restores, file-level deduplication, iOS remote management of multiple backup servers, end-user-initiated restores, and industry-leading customer support. With more than two decades of field-tested expertise and millions of users worldwide, Retrospect meets the needs of organizations that require the highest level of recoverability.
Retrospect is dedicated to providing reliable backup and recovery tools for professionals and small-to-midsize businesses. For additional information, please visit retrospect.com.
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[1] Source: "Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services, Worldwide", Gartner, 2015
Kristin Goedert
Director, Worldwide Marketing
sales@retrospect.com
