Synology ActiveProtect Appliances for Scalable, Centralized, and Streamlined Business Data Protection

Synology, Inc. announced ActiveProtect appliances, a purpose-built data protection lineup that combines centralized management with a highly scalable architecture for best-in-class ease of use.

“The launch of ActiveProtect reflects Synology’s unceasing commitment to empowering our users with the tools to manage their most valuable asset-data,” said Philip Wong, chairman and CEO. “In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses face unprecedented challenges in safeguarding their data. With the new ActiveProtect offering, we aim to empower organizations of all sizes to address cybersecurity challenges head-on.“

ActiveProtect centralizes organization-wide data protection policies, tasks, and appliances to offer a unified management and control plane. Coverage for endpoints, servers, hypervisors, storage systems, databases, and Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace services dramatically reduce IT blind spots and the necessity of operating multiple data protection solutions.

“Organizations are tasked with maintaining overly complex and costly data protection strategies, and we aim to solve all the challenges at once with ActiveProtect,” stated Jia-Yu Liu, EVP. “ActiveProtect is the culmination of extensive research, development, and experience working with our customers. We are confident in delivering a solution that will exceed modern businesses’ expectations.”

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Easy to deploy and manage
IT teams can deploy ActiveProtect appliances in minutes and create data protection plans via global policies using a centralized console. From implementing immutability and air gapping policies to performing recovery procedures, ActiveProtect is designed to be intuitive, significantly reducing operational overhead.

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Scalable for any organization
Each ActiveProtect appliance can operate in standalone or cluster-managed modes. Storage capacity can be tiered with the company’s NAS/SAN storage solutions, C2 Object Storage, and other ActiveProtect appliances in the cluster. Additionally, existing Synology Active Backup for Business deployments are manageable from the unified interface, providing high deployment flexibility.

Fast and efficient
Purpose-built ActiveProtect appliances leverage incremental backups with source-side, global, and cross-site deduplication to ensure fast backups and replication with minimal bandwidth usage. ActiveProtect is up to 7x faster at backing up with a typical de-dupe ratio of over 2:1, reducing operating costs.

ActiveProtect appliances will be available through the company’s distributors and partners later in 2024.