Retrospect 8 for Macintosh (Beta)

I didn't know this was coming, indeed I thought the product was dead. At one stage for all intents and purposes it was dead.

I was not impressed with how Dantz crumbled in EMCs hands mere seconds after EMC bought that company, but a hat tip to the Retrospect team who rebuilt Retrospect for Macintosh from scratch and have now released a public beta over at retrospect.com.

What's up with Retrospect these days? Well little orphan Annie has been folded into Jonathan "Daddy Warbucks" Huberman's Iomega organization and slap my bottom and call me "Sexy" if all of a sudden things started finally moving in the right direction.

The Iomega team have ambition, they ship product and I've yet to meet one of them who doesn't remind me that their team ships more storage than the rest of EMC combined. "Great", I say "we expect you to ship even more next quarter and a hell of a lot more than that by this time next year."

What do I think the hold up was with Retrospect for Mac? It's difficult for any division who's idea of entry level is a $10K/$20K software license to figure out why they need to invest in a backup product for the Mac market which sells for the folding in your wallet. It's not so difficult when you're a mass market play like Iomega.

Retrospect as part of Iomega is the correct fit.

Reto 8 in beta, a thriving (and growing) Mac community on EMC|ONE who appear to spend time coming up with new ways to stretch the the definition of "supported by IT" until either it screams or IT just give in and MacOS X supported for Clariion attach. 

Having been a lone voice five years ago it's now like I've entered a mirror universe.

Whic of course means that I have to switch away to something less mass market immediately. If anyone wants me I'll be installing Xubuntu..