Imminent Release of Synology DiskStation Manager 7.0 NAS OS

Synology, Inc. announced the imminent release of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 7.0 NAS OS and an expansion of the Synology C2 platform with four new cloud services.

Focusing on enhancing security, system management capabilities, and improving data collaboration, DSM 7.0 is a step forward for company‘s NAS and SAN product lines. Building upon the C2 Storage, the firm is rolling out both hybrid and cloud-only products, including a new password manager, directory as a service, cloud backup, and secure file transferring solutions. The company is invested in expanding the availability of its cloud platform by starting work on opening a new data center location to expand its services to the AsiaPac region.

Close to source, how edge solutions solve data management challenges
“Large amounts of unstructured data is constantly being generated at exponential rates,” said Philip Wong, CEO, and founder. “Traditional centralized storage deployments can no longer keep up with ever-increasing bandwidth and performance demands. Edge cloud products, like Synology’s storage management lineup, are one of the fastest-growing solutions in the market today because they uniquely address the challenges that modern businesses meet.”

Over 8 million of the company’s data management solutions have been deployed worldwide ⁽¹⁾, each powered by the DSM OS. DSM combines storage interoperability, backup and data protection capabilities, and synchronization and collaboration solutions together to address increasingly distributed workplaces and sources of data. Firm-developed add-ons, such as Synology Drive, Active Backup suite, and more, feature more than 6 million monthly downloads.

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Launching together with the update includes brand hybrid-cloud services, such as Active Insight, a large-scale device monitoring and diagnostics solution, Hybrid Share, which combines C2 storage flexibility and synchronization capabilities with on-premises solutions, and C2 Identity, a hybrid cloud directory as a service to simplify cross-site domain management ⁽³⁾. Together with platform improvements such as supporting up to 1PB volumes for large tasks, DSM 7.0 also introduces security improvements in the form of Secure SignIn. This new authentication system makes 2-factor effortless and straightforward to use.

C2 solutions and data center
Launching later this year are new cloud solutions from the company: C2 Identity, C2 Backup, C2 Password, and C2 Transfer. C2 Identity is a hybrid-cloud directory-as-a-service to simplify cross-site domain management, ⁽³⁾ while the remaining are standalone solutions that address businesses’ needs to protect passwords, share sensitive files, and back up any endpoints and common SaaS cloud services.

“Four years of rolling out and operating our cloud service has allowed us to integrate our expertise in data management with new technologies, enabling innovative optimizations that allow us to deliver a reliable but extremely cost-competitive solution,” said Wong. “We’re now looking at a path of rapid expansion into additional locations to address potential customers.”

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Already in the works is a new data center in Taiwan, which lies in the middle of key markets in the AsiaPac region. The expansion enables the entire C2 portfolio to be closer to customers, reducing latency and improving the end user experience in a manner similar to how firm’s on-premises NAS and SAN solutions are doing for edge deployments.

“DSM 7.0 and the new C2 expansion bring forward Synology’s new outlook on data management,” Wong stated. “We will continue pushing the boundaries even further with closer integration, bringing out the best of both on-premises and cloud architectures together.“

C2 solutions and DSM 7.0, which has concluded over seven months of public testing, will be available soon.

⁽¹⁾ Synology sales metrics across all markets.
⁽²⁾ For select Plus, value, and J series products. XS, SA, and FS series devices will receive updates later in 4Q21.
⁽³⁾ New C2 services will gradually roll out starting from July 13.