CLOUD STORAGE & BACKUP
WHAT IS NAS
NAS (Network Attached Storage) is an intelligent storage device connected to your home or office network. You can store all your family and colleagues’ files on the NAS, from important documents to precious photos, music and video collections. By using a web browser or mobile apps, you can access files and use various services provided by the NAS via the Internet.
WHY DOES YOUR OFFICE NEED ONE?
Businesses with 50 or fewer employees need to store ever-increasing amount of data. They also require affordable solutions to back up data, share files, and collaborate on a single file at the same time. However, very few have the luxury of dedicated IT support.
What Can Synology NAS Do for Your Business?
Next-gen file server
Traditional file-sharing practices are fraught with inefficiency. Some businesses use email attachments to share files and eventually face file size limit and version control issues. Synology NAS, as an on-premises centralized storage device, can fulfill the needs of modern file sharing and collaboration.
Seamless file sharing
Drive supports the SMB local access as well as the web portal and mobile app for remote access. By simply selecting a DSM account, you can share files internally with notifications. External file exchange can be done via Share File Links or Create File Requests.
Easy collaboration to boost productivity
Synology NAS also made collaborating with colleagues and sharing projects with customers efficient. Office enables your team to work simultaneously and interact by leaving comments. Chat allows your team to have quick discussions and never miss notifications. MailPlus allows for a private mail server and a web-based mail client to boost productivity.
Centralized backup
Centralized backup made easy for small businesses
Backing up data scattered across PCs, servers, and VMs is always challenging - remote offices and employees can make things even more complicated. Active Backup for Business makes backup easy through a unified, intuitive console without license fees. For PC backup, it supports bare-metal recovery to restore the OS, settings, applications, and data; your employees can have instant, self-service recovery without bothering IT admins.
Secure backup for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
For small businesses relying heavily on Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, purchasing space for data archiving or auditing is expensive. We also suggest opting for a backup protection. That’s why you need Active Backup for Microsoft 365/Google Workspace, which allows you to easily back up email, contacts, Drive and calendar from My Drives or Team Drives on Google or Microsoft accounts to a Synology NAS, without worrying about accidental deletion, while achieving disaster recovery, satisfying data retention needs — without license fees.
Service Continuity
Benefits of High Availability (HA) for small businesses
If you can’t tolerate outages such as server or storage failures, then you need a High Availability (HA) solution to ensure employee access to data and services at all times. Two Synology NAS can form a HA cluster. All services and data requests are handled by the active NAS and mirrored to the standby, passive NAS in real time. If the active NAS malfunctions, the passive unit will take over in seconds, meaning your employees can continue to access files and services.
Why Synology HA is perfect for small businesses
Compared to traditional solutions, you can set up and maintain Synology HA without extensive technical knowledge. Where traditional solutions require expensive hardware, Synology HA is affordable even on a budget-friendly 2-bay NAS.