Catalogic DPX protects your data quickly and reliably for your virtual, physical and cloud-based environments. DPX integrates backup and recovery, tape backup, disaster recovery, and bare metal recovery as copy data services that reduce both backup and recovery times by 90% or more through instantly mountable recoveries. DPX simplifies data protection across your enterprise infrastructure and reduces operational costs. The largest hidden cost of data protection is operations: the day-to-day management and troubleshooting of the many different tools used to back up, restore and copy data. Spending too much time on backup and using multiple tools is definitely a problem regardless of the business size which results in wasted resources and personnel time that could be deployed to higher value activities. DPX lets you work smarter by combining an easy-to-use, intuitive management interface with robust backup and disaster recovery capabilities. Built-in integration with NetApp means backup operators don't need to be storage experts. DPX doesn't require months of training and storage administration experience to operate freeing up IT staff to work on other projects that drive new revenue.
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Data Center Global SAP Operations Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Catalogic DPX
Jan 27, 2016
We use it to backup some high output critical physical servers, knowing that in case of disaster we could still recover to our VM environment. The user interface needs improvement.
Catalogic has great features including the ability to P2V from snapvaults, and recently the addition of agent-less backups for Linux. The integration modules are really good, specifically the Exchange Restore/Audit tool, allowing us to identify duplicate records during e-discoveries. We save a lot of time not having to clean-up duplicate records produced during these e-discovery requirements. The ability to map drives from prior backups and clone virtual machines works well.
How has it helped my organization?
We used Catalogic to virtualize multiple physical servers, and also use it to backup some high output critical physical servers, knowing that in case of disaster we could still recover to our vm environment. Our main use for the product is to backup/instant recover virtual machines, and to support recovery of Sharepoint and Exchange.The Exchange tool for eDiscovery is very good, it is our favorite feature.
*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Almost half a year ago I was at Storage Field Day 7 in San Jose (CA) where we had a couple of awesome presentations by multiple companies. One of these companies was Catalogic who presented on their ECX copy datamanagement platform. A couple of my fellow delegates have written some great content on this technology and I’ll include them at the end of this post, and encourage you to read them.
.As said we’re almost half a year further, and I was curious what changed in this time with the companies that presented at SFD7.
Copy Data Management
So what is Copy Data Management according to Catalogic, and what challenges does it solve? If you’ve watched the above video you’ve seen that Catalogic defines three challenges: data growth, manageability and business agility.
In a world where data seems to exploding it seems more then iminent to have a mechanism to create order in this data sprawl and that’s where ECX comes in.
By implementing an OVF (docker based) and without any agents on your servers, you’ll get a system which provides you with: Orchestration, Automation DR and Data analytics. Using this for Test/Dev better RTO/RPO, reduce Capex/Opex, create orchastration to use the power of the cloud, and analyze and report on your data is very interesting.
And hearing about all these awesome posibilities, it kind of struck me that this was only possible with NetApp storage. I understand you need to start somewhere, but for a company in business since 1996 it must be doable to support more then just NetApp…
Fast forward 6 months
As mentioned this was what I absorbed during the presentation during Storage Field Day 7 and I kinda lost track, mainly because of the NetApp only thing, to be honest. I really think that ECX has a lot of potential, but it just needs to be available for all (or almost all ;-P) storage systems.
In the week before VMworld Catalogic announced ECX 2.2 which introduced support new storage vendor IBM. As of version 2.2 the IBM storage customers can use ECX to do the amazing things ECX provides. Although I would love to see more storage vendors on the list, it shows Catalogic is working hard to get more and more on the HCL ?
But that’s not all for the 2.2 version ,the other new key features are:
Enhanced Policy-Based Copy Data Management Workflow Automation
Copy Data Management for IBM platforms
Improved Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Expanded scalability and performance
Improved fault tolerance
I’ll be keeping a close watch on Catalogic to see what news will follow in the next couple of months.
*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
