Synology Active and C2 Backup Reaches 20 Million Milestone

Synology, Inc. announced a milestone for its backup solutions, Active Backup and C2 Backup.

Over 20 million SaaS user accounts, endpoints, servers, and VMs have been secured with firm’s on-prem and cloud-powered backup services. In 2023, compared to the previous year, Active Backup Suite saw a 31% increase in newly-protected Microsoft 365 accounts and an 82% growth in newly-protected edge systems.

Since its introduction in 2017, Active Backup has been at the forefront of on-prem backup solutions, offering deployment versatility and ease of management across Windows, macOS, Linux, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and NetApp systems. The software suite extends backup capabilities to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace accounts, ensuring a spectrum of data and IT services are protected.

“With over 70% of business decision makers expressing doubts about their IT defenses vs. ransomware or similar threats, the need for manageable, cost-effective backup solutions has never been greater,” stated Joanne Weng, director of international business. “Our solution distinguishes itself by simplifying the entire sizing, deployment, and long-term management life-cycle of backup systems. This is important for IT departments as they grapple with limited budget, insufficient training, or staffing in a constantly changing environment.“

Company’s backup solutions have been highly rated by both businesses and public sector organizations, with Active Backup receiving a stellar 4.7 out of 5-star rating on the Gartner Peer Insights platform¹ Additionally, C2 Backup has been recognized as a Leader by G2, achieving a 4.6 out of 5-star rating.²

Active Backup Suite: centralized protection for scattered data
Active Backup Suite is a collection of enterprise backup and recovery software that is available on Synology’s range of business-level servers. With centralized management and monitoring, alongside flexible recovery options, it enables businesses to protect physical, virtual, and cloud data and restore critical systems near-instantaneously. Notably, firm’s business model, which combines their backup software suite with hardware architectures, eliminates the need for per-device or account software licenses, thereby reducing users’ total cost of acquisition.

Active Backup for Business, one component of the Active Backup Suite, facilitates backup for on-premises platforms, such as Windows, macOS, VMware, Hyper-V, file servers, and more. Another tool available is Active Backup for Microsoft 365/Google Workspace, which supports backing up email, drive files, team repositories, contacts, and more.

Active Backup Suite integrates with Synology’s other DR tools, including Snapshot Replication and Hyper Backup, allowing organizations to backup data to other company’s NAS and cloud services. In the event of a service outage, these tools enable businesses to minimize downtime and quickly recover critical systems from an offsite server.

Customer story: Western Reserve Academy
Western Reserve Academy, a top boarding school in Hudson, OH, uses Active Backup to protect over 2,00 cloud accounts alongside VMs and file servers. Teacher and student accounts across Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 are backed up via Active Backup Suite to their primary backup server. For an added layer of protection, the academy utilizes Snapshot Replication to copy data from their primary server to a secondary NAS for quick recovery in case of disaster.

Brian Schwartz, director of network administration, Western Reserve Academy, remarks: “I used to always be worried about problems with our backups. With Synology I can walk away and not worry about it – and that speaks volumes.“

Academy’s centralized backup solution ensures the availability of essential data, while also saving the academy IT effort and resources. They can retain student accounts and records long after graduation without facing perpetually rising costs.

Case study: Western Reserve Academy

¹ As of March 21, 2024, Synology has an overall rating of 4.7 out of 5 in the enterprise backup and recovery software solutions market, based on 80 reviews on Garter Peer Insights.
² As of March 21, 2024, C2 Backup is listed in the top-right quadrant, identified as a Leader by G2 on the G2 Grid for PC Backup.