Synology Solution Exhibition 2024 - Big announcements

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Last week, the Synology Solution Exhibition was held at Taipei Music Center, Taiwan.

It comes with lots of announcements and of course GenAI integration. here’s what they showcased:

Focus on enterprise storage and data protection: Synology unveiled a new line of high-performance storage solutions aimed at enterprise clients. This included the GS Series, a scalable rackmount appliance that can hold up to 96 individual nodes and offers a potential capacity of 20 petabytes.

AI integration: Synology also announced its AI Console, a new platform that allows businesses to manage and deploy AI applications on their Synology NAS.

Enhanced Surveillance Station and Cloud Cameras: Synology unveiled a new line of cloud cameras that integrate with Surveillance Station, their security camera management software. They also showed off a new fisheye camera and an 8MP bullet camera.

New Synology Flash NVMe and HDD Hybrid Rackmount: Still in early development, Synology showed off a new hybrid rackmount storage solution that combines flash NVMe storage with traditional HDD storage.

In this blog, I will list some of the biggest announcements.

Introducing ActiveProtect appliances

Synology Unveiled ActiveProtect Appliances for Scalable, Centralized, and Streamlined Business Data Protection. Read the official announcement from here.

ActiveProtect consolidates organization-wide data protection policies, tasks, and devices into a unified management and control interface. This comprehensive coverage for endpoints, servers, hypervisors, storage systems, databases, and Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace services significantly reduces IT blind spots and eliminates the need for multiple data protection solutions.

ActiveProtect Manager – Source: Synology

Some features regarding ActiveProtect:

Easy to deploy and manage

IT teams can quickly deploy ActiveProtect appliances in minutes and create comprehensive 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.

Scalable for any organization

Each ActiveProtect appliance 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 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 7 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. Please visit this link for more information.

C2 Surveillance Station video surveillance as a service

Synology Surveillance Station provides organizations with a powerful one-stop security solution. Integrating video recording, monitoring, and flexible storage options, Synology’s expanding video surveillance ecosystem also supports multisite and now direct-to-cloud deployments.

AI-powered surveillance cameras

Dedicated AI-powered NVRs

Store and archive on any Synology NAS/SAN system

Dual recording to on-prem or cloud

Direct-to-cloud options available for faster and minimal on-prem installations

C2 Surveillance Station and C2 cameras will support comprehensive privacy and security options. Multi-layer end-to-end encryption from camera to viewer ensures videos are only accessible to authorized users who simultaneously have the encryption key. Edge AI keeps people, vehicles, and intrusion detection fast and localized to the camera.

Synology will launch the standalone C2 Surveillance Station solution later in 2024. C2 Surveillance, an existing hybrid cloud dual recording service for on-prem NVRs, will be renamed to C2 Backup for Surveillance for easier

Synology + AI

Synology AI Console will add GenAI integration to Synology Office Suite, enabling convenient access to the latest LLMsin a controlled manner, preventing “shadow AI”.Per-application and user permissions enable organizations to restrict usage based on roles.

Additionally, built-in deidentification filters help prevent the accidental leakage of personally identifiable information.

Synology AI Console will be made available on both GS and DSM-powered systems later in 2024.GenAI support will be available in Synology Office, MailPlus, and Chat, with initial support for APIs from OpenAI, Microsoft Azure AI, and Google Gemini.