Synology

Synology Inc. designs network-attached storage (NAS) hardware together with its own operating software, working from headquarters in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The company dates from 2000 and today describes its role as managing business data across storage, backup, video surveillance and productivity, though it still sells a home range too. Synology counts over thirteen million installations and works with tens of thousands of channel partners.

Products and services

• NAS and DSM: storage servers on DiskStation Manager, the in-house system that handles files, sharing and private cloud.
• Active Backup for Business: protection for PCs, Macs, physical and file servers and virtual machines, managed from one dashboard.
• ActiveProtect appliances: dedicated hardware that brings business data protection into a single system.
• Virtual Machine Manager: runs Windows, Linux or virtual DSM machines for testing, sandboxing or disaster recovery.
• Video surveillance: network video recorders, including the AI-assisted DVA7400, and the Surveillance365 cloud service.
• Networking and large storage: network gear and very large storage servers reaching petabyte scale, such as the PAS7700.

Clients

Businesses with needs from edge and remote sites to data centres, as well as home users.

Key facts

• Based in: New Taipei City, Taiwan
• Founded: 2000
• Offices: subsidiaries in Bellevue and near Washington D.C., Milton Keynes, Düsseldorf, near Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo