StorCentric’s Retrospect launches Retrospect Backup 18

Retrospect, a StorCentric company, has introduced 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

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• 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. 

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• Enhanced

• Data Management Platform 

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• 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. 

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• 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. 

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• Simple,

• Easy to use Monitoring - Monitor all backups and seamlessly implement

• a full system backup recovery for your entire environment.

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• 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.

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• 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. 

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Included in Retrospect Virtual 2021:

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• Faster

• Backups

• - Up to 300% faster backups. 

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• Improved Backup

• Server Performance - Optimized resource utilization (memory, CPU, cache) for better performance

• with less resources required. 

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• 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. 

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• Deeper Data

• Integrity - Automated and enhanced data integrity checks to ensure data is never lost. 

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• Broader Platform

• Support - Support for VMware ESXi and vCenter 7.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2019, Ubuntu 20.04

• LTS, Oracle 19c, and MariaDB.