IT decision-makers are increasingly tasked with achieving more despite constrained and, often, dwindling resources. Their roles demand simplicity in processes while ensuring the continuous security of their most valuable asset - data.
Traditionally, cybersecurity and data protection were prioritized above all else, often at the expense of added complexity and resource strain.
IT teams now face a perfect storm of challenges. The threat landscape is expanding, with ransomware attacks becoming more frequent and sophisticated. Simultaneously, they must optimize budgets, improve efficiency, and simplify technology infrastructure. While this may seem all well and good in theory, in reality, it’s a lot to ask.
This balancing act often forces compromises in data protection strategies. Many organizations struggle to implement comprehensive backup solutions due to budget constraints, limited resources,, or overly complex systems. Consequently, critical vulnerabilities remain, exposing enterprises to potentially devastating data loss or breaches.
"After collaborating with clients of different sizes and industries, we found that organizations are indeed limited by many real-world factors in the process of protecting data, making it difficult to cover all operational aspects comprehensively," said Liu Jiayu, deputy general manager of Synology's Backup Products.
"This means that organizations may still be exposed to cybersecurity risks, which is an area that Synology has long been focusing on and eager to provide strong assistance."
Simplifying robust data protection for modern enterprises
Understanding these challenges is crucial for developing effective data protection strategies. IT teams need solutions that address the immediate threats and also streamline the overall data protection process, making it easier to manage and maintain. Solutions must be robust, yet simple enough to deploy and operate without requiring extensive resources or specialized expertise.
Understanding the multifaceted needs of modern enterprises, Synology has developed ActiveProtect to address the most pressing data protection challenges efficiently and effectively.
By integrating advanced technologies and user-friendly management interfaces, ActiveProtect ensures data protection without the typical complexities or high costs associated with traditional solutions. It sports several key features that translate into significant operational advantages for IT professionals, enabling them to safeguard their data while optimizing performance and reducing overheads.
ActiveProtect offers many benefits:
- All-in-one solution: ActiveProtect integrates hardware and software into a single, pre-configured package. This ensures optimal performance and reliability, saving IT personnel the effort and uncertainty of assembling various components from different vendors.
- Rapid deployment: Setting up and completing a full data backup can be done in as little as 15 minutes with ActiveProtect. This deployment significantly reduces the time and effort needed, allowing IT teams to focus on other critical tasks.
- Centralized management: ActiveProtect offers a single interface for monitoring and managing the entire backup architecture. This centralization simplifies data protection, enabling IT personnel to manage backup policies, monitor local and offsite data, and perform restorations from a unified platform.
- Advanced deduplication: Multi-level deduplication mechanisms save storage space and reduce transmission traffic. By comparing data at the source and performing global deduplication across platforms, ActiveProtect optimizes storage costs and enhances efficiency.
- Scalability and efficiency: Features such as data tiering and encrypted replication make ActiveProtect a scalable and cost-effective solution. Enterprises can define data tiering rules, moving older data to more economical storage solutions without compromising accessibility.
Simplicity, confidence, and cost reduction
Traditional solutions often require extensive configuration and ongoing maintenance, which can be resource-intensive. Synology streamlines this process through its pre-configured nature and centralized management interface. IT teams can monitor and manage backups effortlessly, ensuring that all critical data is consistently protected.
These solutions allow IT personnel to deploy a complete data protection architecture in minimal time. By eliminating cumbersome deployment steps, ActiveProtect ensures that data backup is completed quickly and efficiently. This rapid deployment is crucial in today's fast-paced business environment, where downtime can have significant repercussions.
The rapid growth of data and increased audit requirements necessitate long-term data retention, often leading to escalating storage costs. Synology addresses this issue through advanced deduplication and data tiering technologies.
Transmitting only changes or different files during backups and performing global deduplication can significantly reduce storage space usage and transmission bandwidth.
Moreover, enterprises can set data tiering rules to move older data to more cost-effective storage solutions. This approach can reduce costs as well as ensuring that data can be retrieved when needed from a single management interface. Combining these technologies enables ActiveProtect to help organisations build a cost-effective and scalable data protection architecture.
Delivering what IT professionals deserve
Synology’s solutions are next-generation data protection tools that place the customer at the center. They offer streamlined management and outstanding performance, addressing the challenges of
As cybersecurity threats become more severe, these solutions give enterprises the confidence to tackle various risks and significantly enhance their operational resilience.
By adopting ActiveProtect, enterprises can achieve robust data protection without the usual trade-offs. Synology's innovative approach ensures that data security is no longer a drag or drain, allowing IT decision-makers to focus on confidently driving forward their organizations.
Learn more about the new data protection experience from Synology here.
