Retrospect Extends Hybrid Data Protection to Cloud Storage Classes

Retrospect, Inc. announced certification for Amazon S3 Frankfurt and Seoul and support for Amazon S3 storage classes and Google Cloud Storage classes with Retrospect 11.0.1 for Windows and 13.0.1 for Mac.

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This release enables businesses to protect their entire environment offsite on affordable cloud storage in more regions.

“Cloud storage plays a key role in any complete data protection strategy,” says Jean-Christian Dumas, VP, WW sales. “This latest version ensures that our partners and customers can choose affordable, long-term data archival cloud storage tiers to store their business data, secured with AES-256 encryption for zero-knowledge security.“

Certified regions:

• Amazon S3 Frankfurt

• Amazon S3 Seoul

Certified storage classes:

• Amazon S3 infrequent access

• Amazon S3 reduced redundancy

• Amazon Glacier

• Google cloud storage durable reduced availability

• Google cloud storage nearline

List of certified cloud storage providers

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“It’s great to see Retrospect has broadened its cloud storage support so quickly. Google Nearline and Amazon Glacier are great offsite storage options for our customers,” says Mike Habermeier, Joshuasdream GmbH.

“Certified cloud providers across Europe are perfect offsite locations – Legal security and privacy included,” says Michael Baumeister, NetOpen GmbH.

Retrospect 11.0.1 for Windows and Retrospect 13.0.1 for Mac are free updates for customers that own Retrospect 11 for Windows or Retrospect 13 for Mac, and are available from resellers or company’s web site as an electronic download.

The software is available in six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.