Availability for Retrospect Backup 15.5 Software

Retrospect, Inc. announced the availability of Retrospect Backup 15.5.

This version of the company’s data protection suite will support subscription licensing for its consumer editions: Retrospect Solo for $5 per month and Retrospect Desktop for $15 per month, starting in late September. Also included in the product release is early access to Retrospect Management Console, a hosted application for managing multiple Retrospect installations, and a host of enhancements and certifications.

Subscription licensing
The company launched Backup Solo in March 2018 to ensure every computer, external HDD, and email account could be protected with the same enterprise features that businesses utilize. Starting this month, Retrospect Backup is more affordable with subscription-based pricing. The firm’s consumer editions – Solo and Desktop- will be available in late September as a monthly or yearly subscription. Subscriptions include support and all product updates while the subscription is active. Data is never held hostage, and products with inactive subscriptions are always able to restore their backups.

Subscription pricing is a common request from businesses interested in migrating IT infrastructure from capital expenses to operating expenses. The company’s server editions will be available as subscriptions in select markets later this year.

Retrospect Management Console
Businesses need complete visibility into their IT environment. Retrospect Backup enables customers to protect hundreds of machines with one engine, and now with Retrospect Management Console, businesses will be able to monitor their backup infrastructure on our hosted service. With Management Console, IT admins can monitor dozens of backup engines with a single interface and view it remotely, even on their phone. Management Console leverages the same data hooks that are available in Retrospect Backup dashboard to provide a consistent, scalable interface for displaying one, ten, or a hundred backup engines on a single screen.

MSPs and resellers need another level of data aggregation and analytics for ensuring the IT infrastructure for their entire customer base. With the Management Console, they will be able to monitor all of the engines across their clients in a single view, with notifications of which customer and computer are experiencing data protection issues.

Management Console is in public beta and available at no cost.

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System update certifications
Thousands of homes and businesses across the world depend on Retrospect to protect their essential data. With the latest release of Retrospect for Windows and for Mac, customers are protected on the latest system updates:

• Windows Server 2019

• Apple macOS Mojave 10.14

• Ubuntu 17.10, 18.04

• CentOS 7 Update 4, Update 5

• RHEL 7 Update 4, Update 5

• SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP 3

In cases where the official system updates haven’t been released, certification was performed with the latest preview.

Product enhancements
Along with system update certifications, Retrospect for Windows and for Mac include the following features:

• Storage groups preview: Protect your environment up to 16x faster with a single, centralized destination for Retrospect to use simultaneously. Available as a preview.

• Email global deduplication: The software only backups the email once, even if it was sent to a list, and customers backup multiple accounts with the same message.

• Email local restore: Restore your email to your local Retrospect computer or any Retrospect client machine as EML files, including all attachments.

• Email protection for Dovecot: Protect your Dovecot IMAP email server with Retrospect Email Protection.

“We’re thrilled to roll out subscription licensing alongside our current perpetual licensing,” said Jean-Christian Dumas, VP, WW sales. “Partners and customers will be able to protect their entire business with a licensing model that works for them, and with the Retrospect Management Console, MSPs and large organizations can monitor their backup environments anytime on their computer or mobile device from a single pane of glass.“

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Retrospect Virtual
Retrospect’s mission is to protect every part of a business’s digital life. Retrospect Virtual helps businesses quickly backup and restore their virtual guest machines within VMware and Hyper-V with instant restore, centralized management, and cloud storage options. Retrospect Virtual 2018 includes a number of updates. See the release notes for details.

Availability:

• Retrospect 15.5 for Windows and Mac are free to customers that have Retrospect 15 and available.

• The latest version of Retrospect Virtual is also available as a free update to customers with active maintenance agreements. It is available in six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.