Computex: Qnap Unveils Petabyte-Scale Storage Systems, Thunderbolt 4 NAS, Cloud-Based Central Management Solutions, Brand Qnap Cloud, Smart AI Surveillance Solution

Qnap Systems, Inc. will join Computex Taipei 2023 (Nangang Exhibition Center, Tapei, Taiwan) to demonstrate the broadest lineup of solutions and products, including smart surveillance with AI accelerators, multi-device and multi-site backup solutions, NDR switches designed for LAN security, petabyte-scale storage solutions, Thunderbolt 4 NAS, and a new 100GbE switch.

Visitors can also witness the debut showcase of the company’s own cloud storage service – myQnapcloud One. The firm have also teamed up with AMD and Seagate Technology Holdings plc to introduce joint storage solutions with its NAS.

“We are excited to meet WW users and friends again at Computex 2023 and introduce Qnap’s latest and upcoming products and innovations,” said Meiji Chang, GM. “Qnap keeps on developing cutting-edge solutions by integrating AI, cloud, speed, and security, with the aim to provide versatile storage, networking, and surveillance solutions that satisfy demands from home users, small businesses, multimedia creators, and enterprise storage centers.”

Products powered by AMD Ryzen 7000 Series processors, Thunderbolt 4, and hot swappable E1.S SSDs
The TS-h3077AFU, powered by the latest AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-core processor (up to 5.3GHz), provides a high-capacity 30-bay SATA all-flash array that meets business budgets. Featuring DDR5 memory (supports ECC RAM), dual 10GBASE-T (RJ45) ports, dual 2.5GbE ports, and 3 PCIe Gen 4 slots that allows for 25GbE adapters, the TS-h3077AFU meets the performance demands of virtualization, modern data centers, and 4K/8K media production. More models featuring 3.5-inch SATA drives are provided in this series, including the 12-bay TS-h1277AXU-RP and the 16-bay TS-h1677AXU-RP. These models are also the 1st company NAS to adopt PCIe Gen 5 M.2 slots for high-speed SSD storage pools or cache acceleration to boost system performance.

The pioneering Thunderbolt 4 NAS, TVS-h674T and TVS-h874T, merges private cloud storage with speed, convenience, and utility desired from creative users. Powered by a 12th Gen Intel Core i7 12-core or Intel Core i9 16-core processor, the TVS-x74T series comes with 2xThunderbolt 4 ports (Type-C), 2x2.5GbE ports, built-in GPU, 2xM.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 x4 slots, 2xPCIe Gen 4 slots that allow for 10GbE and 25GbE network expansion, and 1x4K HDMI output. It packs everything to help streamline media/file storage and enables perfect collaboration for multimedia professionals.

The compact TBS-574TX, 1st company’s NAS that supports E1.S SSDs, takes 2K/4K video editing and performance-demanding tasks to the next-level. Running the 12th Gen Intel Core i3 10-core processor, the TBS-574TX combines Thunderbolt 4 and hot-swappable E1.S SSDs slots, making it for video editors and content creators to switch between projects or share files for collaboration. It is compact and lightweight, measuring B5-size and weighing less than 2.5 kg, to keep its mobility and convenience. An E1.S to M.2 2280 NVMe SSD adapter is also attached to each drive bay, providing users with flexibly in their choice of SSDs.

Smart Surveillance with AI accelerator and video footage backup
The TS-AI642, the 8-core AI NAS with a 6 TOPS performance NPU, presents one of the most powerful ARM-based NAS among the firm’s product portfolio. It is designed to specialize in AI image recognition and smart surveillance applications, along with built-in dual 4K HDMI output, 2.5GbE as standard, and a PCIe Gen 3 slot for 10GbE expansion for its capable hardware. The AI NAS features advanced ARM Cortex-A76 cores at 2.2GHz and Cortex-A55 cores at 1.8GHz, offering the ideal balance of performance and power saving at an affordable price.

A Qnap and Hailo joint solution will be demonstrated as power-efficient, scalable, and affordable AI surveillance solutions in large-scale deployment. Instead of purchasing expensive AI cameras, users can operate AI-powered facial recognition and people counting applications by using the company’s surveillance servers with Hailo-8 M.2 AI acceleration modules for boosted AI recognition performance.

To meet the requirements of surveillance backup retention policies, QVR Recording Vault app provides a central backup solution for long-term retention, allowing for backing up video footage even with metadata or facial recognition information. Administrators can access the video backups through computers or mobile devices with QVR Pro Client for seamless browsing, playback, or file searching.

Multi-device, multi-site, multi-cloud backup solutions
Hybrid Backup Sync is the firm’s backup solution for facilitating 3-2-1 backup strategies. To overcome the challenge of managing hundreds of NAS backup jobs, the company introduces Hybrid Backup Center that centralizes management of large-scale, cross-site NAS backup jobs of Hybrid Backup Sync in a single platform – with a topology widget to simplify a vast scope of backup management.

The company continues enhancing cloud services and here unveils its own brand cloud ‘myQnapcloud One’, aiming to streamline users’ hybrid backup plans from on-prem Qnap NAS to Qnap’s cloud. myQnapcloud One offers an array of solutions to protect various types of data and keep them available at all times, facilitating hybrid backup strategy for organizations and individuals. Besides allowing full protection during the processes of backing up, transferring, and storing data, myQnapcloud One services can be integrated with the firm’s Hybrid Backup Sync, Hybrid Backup Center, HybridMount, and more.

NDR switches, network virtualization premise equipment, and system-level HA
As networks continues growing in both size and complexity, organizations are tackling challenges in managing not only network hardware but also cybersecurity. The company proposes the affordable ADRA network detection and response (NDR) solution that can be deployed on an access switch, allowing the broadest network-level security coverage for all connected end devices in LAN environment against targeted ransomware.

Meanwhile, the firm also proposes the concept of transforming traditional IT rooms into a revolutionary, software-defined IT infrastructure. With QuCPE network virtualization premise equipment QuCPE-7030A, featuring up to 10 cores/20 threads and OCP 3.0, that utilizes VM/VNF/Container technology to replace dedicated network hardware, organizations can build a virtualized, resilient IT room and even remotely manage IT rooms at multiple locations without being on-site. QuCPE further supports system-level high-availability to achieve minimal downtime for service availability.

Petabyte-scale storage solutions
Exponential data growth requires reliable storage with scale-up flexibility. Visitors can expect to see the company’s petabyte-scale storage solutions, constructed with robust ZFS-based QuTS hero NAS systems and PCIe interface SATA JBOD storage enclosures (the TL-Rxx00PES-RP series including 12, 16, and 24-bay). The firm also partners with Seagate to offer petabyte-level solutions by making NAS support select models of Seagate Exos E series JBOD systems. These scalable and cost-effective solutions offer organizations future-proof data storage to tackle mass capacity challenges.

The availability of the aforementioned new products will be announced separately.