At COMPUTEX 2024, Synology has announced the launch of its new ActiveProtect appliances, a data protection lineup designed to offer centralized management and a scalable architecture, enhancing ease of use for organizations of all sizes.
“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 of Synology. “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 data protection policies, tasks, and appliances, providing a unified management and control plane. This comprehensive coverage includes endpoints, servers, hypervisors, storage systems, databases, and Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace services, significantly reducing IT blind spots and the need for 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, Executive Vice President at Synology. “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.”
Key Features of ActiveProtect:
Easy Deployment and Management: IT teams can deploy ActiveProtect appliances in minutes and create comprehensive data protection plans via global policies using a centralized console. The intuitive design of ActiveProtect reduces operational overhead by streamlining the implementation of immutability, air gapping policies, and recovery procedures.
Scalability: ActiveProtect appliances can operate in standalone or cluster-managed modes. Storage capacity can be tiered with Synology NAS/SAN storage solutions, C2 Object Storage, and other ActiveProtect appliances within the cluster. Existing Synology Active Backup for Business deployments are manageable from the unified interface, offering high deployment flexibility.
Efficiency: The purpose-built ActiveProtect appliances leverage incremental backups with source-side, global, and cross-site deduplication. This ensures fast backups and replication with minimal bandwidth usage. ActiveProtect is up to seven times faster at backing up, with a typical deduplication ratio of over 2:1, significantly reducing operating costs.
ActiveProtect will be available through Synology distributors and partners later in 2024. For more information about Synology’s data protection appliance series, visit Synology’s ActiveProtect page.
