Other Components of the DPX Suite
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The Catalogic DPX suite encompasses additional tools designed to enhance DPX’s data protection and management capabilities. These tools include vStor, which provides efficient backup and recovery options, and GuardMode, which offers advanced ransomware detection. Both are designed to seamlessly integrate with the DPX environment to ensure a comprehensive and secure data management solution.
Catalogic vStor, developed by Catalogic Software, is a robust server designed for efficient, safe, and versatile data protection and recovery. It is intended to serve as the primary backup destination for Catalogic DPX, connecting to disk storage pools. The vStor server can be installed on either a virtual or physical appliance at any stage post-deployment of the Catalogic DPX Master Server.
Catalogic vStor servers can be deployed:
on a physical machine
in a VMware environment
in a Hyper-V environment
You can use vStor both for backup and recovery, with Block and Agentless backups. For File backups, a DPX Client must be installed on the target machine.
Since version 4.8.1, Catalogic DPX bundles the Catalogic DPX GuardMode, which provides early detection of ransomware or data-related anomalies before you back up your data.
GuardMode Agent monitors filesystem activity for:
Ransomware-specific patterns and extensions
Processes that are consistently altering data on the system for longer periods
Rapid file renames and modifications
Attempts to modify decoy files
Files with high entropy and unreadable metadata
Unlike traditional ransomware detection solutions, GuardMode is designed with the backup administrator in mind, providing easy-to-configure detection mechanisms and guidance for data recovery. It complements endpoint and edge protection by monitoring file shares and system behavior over the network, maintaining and regularly updating over 5000 known ransomware threat patterns, and assessing affected files.
See also. To learn more about the Catalogic GuardMode, see the .