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Small and Midsize Business IT Services - All Rolled Into One

Build an integrated infrastructure for your networking, collaboration, security, and file storage solutions, minimizing your IT efforts so you can focus on running your business.

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Digital Workplace

Storage Foundation

Networking & Security

File Server

Keep all your files centrally accessible anywhere with built-in data protection. Learn more

  • Centralized management: Seamlessly fits into your IT environment with the support of various file protocols (SMB/AFP/FTP/WebDAV).
  • Granular privileges: Integration with Windows AD/LDAP and granular privileges configurations allow teams and individuals to access files or folders with ACL privileges.
  • Built-in data protection: Avoid human error by restoring data back to a previous point-in-time with the snapshots taken for shared folders, and by configuring RAID arrays for disk fault tolerance.
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File Sharing & Collaboration

Control data governance while keeping your mobile workforce engaged. Read the blog

  • Anywhere file access: Break the limits of traditional file server’s access with web browser and mobile devices, anytime and anywhere.
  • Secure file sharing: Share files externally with your clients by setting up password protection, expiration date, and proper privileges.
  • Content collaboration: Documents, Spreadsheet, and Slides let your team simultaneously edit content while keeping everything on-premises, from inception to launch.
File Sharing & Collaboration

Mail Server

Host your own email server to ensure data safety and free your business from recurring subscription fees. Learn more

  • Seamless migration: Migrate your existing mail service from Google Workspace/Microsoft Exchange to Synology MailPlus with just a few clicks.
  • Enterprise-grade management: Enhanced reliability with the high-availability design during system upgrades and hardware replacement, and various mail security, anti-spam, and anti-virus mechanisms.
  • Value-added collaboration suite: Integrate Collaboration Suite packages such as Calendar and its to-do list, and Chat to boost office productivity.
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Storage for Virtualization

Consolidate file services and virtualized workloads in one storage system, only at a one-time hardware cost.

  • Certified for virtualization: Compatible with all mainstream virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, and OpenStack Cinder), perfectly fitting into your infrastructure.
  • Protect against data loss: Built-in snapshot, backup, and high availability technologies safeguard your business against operational errors, accidental outages, or disasters. No hidden costs.
  • High performance & scalability: A wide array of storage options are available to support different levels of workloads — with the right performance and scalability to accompany you through business expansion.

Data Backup & Business Continuity

Centralize data protection on your Synology NAS, and follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy by having an extra copy offsite – backed by built-in applications. Learn more

  • Back up everything for free: Centrally back up and manage your business data on Synology NAS whether it’s from Windows, Linux, Mac, VMware, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, NAS, portable hard drives, or 20+ cloud services.
  • Restore what you want easily: Fast and reliable recovery methods prevent you from data loss, while snapshot technology can easily restore files to a previous state prior to ransomware attacks.
  • Maximize storage efficiency: Saving storage costs with the advanced technologies, such as deduplication, compression, and incremental backup.
File Sharing & Collaboration

Wi-Fi & Network Security

Setting up Wi-Fi in the new office? With the latest mesh technology, you can create a large Wi-Fi network in ten minutes, directly from your smartphone.

  • Whole-office Wi-Fi coverage: Flexibly deploy up to 7 (wireless) or 13 (wired) Wi-Fi points to blanket every corner with strong signal. Enjoy seamless roaming across all rooms and floors.
  • VPN for remote employees & branch offices: Give your staff secured remote access when they’re on the road. Branches offices can also connect with the headquarters to make cross-site resource sharing easier than ever.
  • Integrated security system: Install additional security layers on your network to protect all connected devices from malicious attacks, and gain insights into what’s happening in the traffic.
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Video Surveillance

Secure your business and staff to minimize loss and maximize revenue.

  • Vast camera support: Compatible with up to 7,000 camera options from 120 renowned brands, flexibly fitting into your existing setup.
  • Easy-to-use interface: Plug in and find your camera with ease, and start navigating a variety of functions on PCs or mobile devices.
  • Smart surveillance: Integrated with various video analysis techniques to get real-time alerts and retrieve the desired data in a timely manner.
  • Instant notifications: Get notified of any suspicious events via SMS, emails, or mobile push notifications.
File Sharing & Collaboration

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Backup Solution Guide

Introducing backup solutions in different user scenarios

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  • Active Backup for Google Workspace
  • Active Backup for Microsoft 365

Active Backup for Google Workspace

  • Supported on x64 Synology NAS servers
  • Management
    • Centralized management interface to monitor Google Workspace My Drive, shared drives, mails, contacts and calendars, backup status, storage consumption, and historical transmission
    • Account discovery allows newly created users on Google Workspace to be automatically detected and selected for backup
    • Shared drive discovery allows newly added shared drives on Google Workspace to be automatically detected and selected for backup
  • Backup
    • Supported services
      • My Drive and shared drives: back up files, file sharing permissions, and corresponding metadata, including last modified time, folder color, and file description
      • Mail: back up data stored on Mail along with their attachments
      • Contacts: back up data stored on Contacts
      • Calendar: back up data stored on Calendar along with their attachments
    • Supports backing up Google online applications, including Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Drawings, Apps Script, and Jamboard
    • Allow all or selected users within a domain to be backed up in a task
    • Supports multi-domain backup
    • Supports backup policies: schedule, manual, and continuous backup mode
    • Supports retention policy: keep versions for a specified number of days or forever
  • Restoration and export
    • User privilege
      • All backup users can log in to Active Backup for Google Workspace Portal
      • Users with admin privilege can restore or download all users' backup data
      • Users without admin privilege can only restore or download their own backup data
    • Data restoration
      • My Drive and shared drives: supports restoring a single file or folder at a time
      • Mail: supports restoring multiple mails at a time
      • Contact: supports restoring multiple contacts at a time
      • Calendar: supports restoring multiple calendar events at a time
    • Data export
      • Drive: supports exporting a single file or folder at a time
      • Mail: supports exporting multiple mails in eml or multiple attachments at a time
      • Contact: supports exporting multiple contacts in csv at a time
      • Calendar: supports exporting multiple calendars events in ics at a time
    • Data and metadata can be restored to any user’s My Drive and shared drives
      • File sharing permissions of My Drive can be restored to any user’s My Drive
      • File sharing permissions of shared drives can be restored to any shared drives
    • Backup data preview
      • Mail: supports previewing content of email with attachments
      • Contact: supports previewing a contact’s information
    • Content search
      • Mail: supports filtering email data by sender, receiver, subject, keyword, date, and content within attachments
      • Contact: supports filtering contacts by email address
      • Calendar: supports filtering calendar events by creator, title, and location
  • Storage efficiency
    • Single instancing is supported on Btrfs file system. Files containing identical content will only be transferred once and stored on your Synology NAS with only one copy
    • Block-level deduplication enables files stored in Btrfs volumes to be deduplicated with their previous versions
  • Notifications
    • Provide notifications when backup tasks are canceled, failed, completed, or partially completed, and when there is no sufficient space for backup
  • Log
    • Offer logs for backup and restoration events

Active Backup for Microsoft 365

  • Supported on x64 Synology NAS servers
  • Supports Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Germany, and Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet
  • Supports Microsoft 365 Business, Enterprise, Education, and Exchange Online plans
  • Supports multi-factor authentication
  • Backup
    • Supported services:
      • OneDrive for Business: back up files, file sharing permissions, and corresponding metadata, such as the last modified time stored on OneDrive for Business
      • Mail: back up data stored on personal, room, equipment, and shared mailboxes, along with their folders, folder structures, and attachments
      • Contacts: back up data stored on Contacts
      • Calendar: back up data stored on A106Calendar along with their attachments
      • SharePoint: back up document libraries and lists stored on Sites and My Sites
    • Allow all or selected users within a tenant to be backed up in a task
    • Supports multi-tenant backup
    • Supported backup policies: schedule, manual, and continuous backup mode
    • Supported retention policy: keep versions for the number of days or forever
  • Restoration and export
    • User privilege:
      • All backup users can log in to Active Backup for Microsoft 365 Portal
      • Users with admin privilege can restore or download all users' backup data
      • Users without admin privilege can only restore or download their own backup data
    • Data restoration
      • Drive: supports restoring multiple files or folders in a directory at a time and restoring file sharing permissions
      • Mail: supports restoring multiple mails or a single mail folder
      • Contact: supports restoring multiple contacts at a time
      • Calendar: supports restoring multiple calendar events at a time
      • Site: supports restoring multiple document libraries or lists at a time
    • Data export
      • Drive: supports exporting a single file or folder at a time
      • Mail: supports exporting multiple mails in eml or multiple attachments at a time
      • Contact: supports exporting multiple contacts in csv at a time
      • Calendar: supports exporting multiple calendars events in ics at a time
      • Site: supports exporting multiple document libraries at a time
    • Backup data preview
      • Mail: supports previewing content of email with attachments
      • Contact: supports previewing a contact’s information
    • Content search
      • Mail: supports filtering email data by sender, receiver, subject, keyword, date, and content within attachments
      • Contact: supports filtering contacts by email address
      • Calendar: supports filtering calendar events by organizer, title, and location
      • Site: supports filtering document libraries, lists, or files by title, description, or content
  • Management
    • Centralized management interface for monitoring real-time and historical protection of backup services, storage consumption, as well as data transmission history
    • Enabling account discovery for any of the four services allows newly added users with that service enabled on Microsoft 365 to be automatically detected and selected for backup
    • Enabling site discovery for site or my site allows newly created Sites and My Sites on Microsoft 365 to be automatically detected and selected for backup
    • Supports deleting service backup data of each user from Synology NAS
  • Storage efficiency
    • Single instancing is supported for OneDrive files, Mail/Calendar attachments, and SharePoint files. Files containing identical content will only be transferred once and stored on your Synology NAS with only one copy
    • Block-level deduplication enables files stored in Btrfs volumes to be deduplicated with their previous versions
  • Notifications
    • Provide notifications when backup task are canceled, failed, completed, or partially completed, and when there is no sufficient space
  • Logs -Provide logs for backup, restoration, account discovery, and setting changes
  • More information regarding Active Backup for Microsoft 365 can be found here

Notes:

  1. Please note that the figures marked in asterisks are derived from the Synology lab by using high-performance client computers with optimized network settings, and could vary in different environments.