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EMC Announces New Retrospect 8.1 for Mac Now Available
August 2009 by Marc Jacob
EMC Corporation announced that EMC Retrospect 8.1, the company’s trusted backup and recovery software for the Mac platform, is now available through distribution. Version 8.1 offers increased performance on Intel-based Macs, improvements to the new user interface introduced earlier this year in version 8.0, and now runs on PowerPC Macs, fully supporting individuals and organizations that use older Mac computers for their backups.
EMC Retrospect 8.1 improves performance over version 8.0 in a number of key areas, including backup, data verification, and restore activities. On average, users of Retrospect 8.1 on Intel-based Macs can expect to see local backup performance increase 10 to 15 percent over version 8.0 and 30 to 35 percent over version 6.1. Performance on PowerPC systems varies more with the power and speed of the processor, with faster, multiple G5 processor systems performing 10 to 15 percent better than they did with version 6.1.
Improvements to the user interface of EMC Retrospect 8.0 are also present in the 8.1 release, as well as several other enhancements that benefit the overall user experience.
Tech Superpowers, Inc., a professional services consultancy and Retrospect reseller with offices in Boston and London, is already working with EMC Retrospect 8.1.
EMC Retrospect 8.1 is currently available in English only; localized language editions are expected to be available later this year in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
