Chapter 1: Catalogic DPX Overview

Catalogic DPX™ delivers unprecedented speed and savings with a single unified data protection solution making backup and disaster recovery smarter, faster, and more efficient. It is uniquely designed to handle the most common data protection use cases that are challenging IT departments.

You can deploy Catalogic DPX quickly and it scales easily to match the needs of rapidly growing cloud infrastructures. Additionally, the software exploits modern server virtualization and is optimized for the backup and recovery of virtual systems.

Catalogic DPX Block Data Protection provides rapid and efficient backup, restore, bare metal recovery, application protection, and tape archiving. A complex backup environment can have multiple backup Enterprises each with more than one secondary system including NetApp storage and Catalogic DPX Open Storage.

There is one master server per data protection Enterprise. The master server is a DPX node that contains DPX software, including the Catalog and modules that control scheduling, media management, and distributed processing. Any other node in an Enterprise from which you may want to back up data is called a client. The master server may also be a client node.

For the latest system compatibility details regarding supported hardware, file systems, applications, operating systems, and service packs, see the Compatibility Guide.