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When you effortlessly scroll through tens of thousands of photos in Synology Photos or share project images with team members, the experience feels seamless. But have you ever wondered how the backend system works to deliver such smooth performance? Think of Synology Photos' backend as a sophisticated factory, with its core being an efficient pipeline called the "Task Center." Every second, thousands of tasks flow through this pipeline: phone backups, photo similarity calculations, file information processing, thumbnail generation, face and object recognition, geographic location updates, and more. In such a busy and complex system, how does Synology Photos ensure precise

At Synology, we rely on MailPlus to support over 1,500 employees and handle more than 170,000 emails each day. We closely monitor its uptime to ensure it delivers the reliability we demand in a production environment. Over time, MailPlus has consistently delivered 99.99% service uptime. For comparison, a typical SLA of 99.9% allows for up to 43 minutes of downtime per month, while 99.99% reduces that to about 4 minutes per month, or less than 1 minute per week. This level of availability is the result of deliberate engineering decisions, especially the implementation of MailPlus High Availability (HA). Unlike traditional

To capture your child's brightest smile, you might press the shutter ten times in a row. To achieve the perfect sunset tone, you may save five filtered versions. While modern photography allows us to record beautiful moments, it also makes our photo albums cluttered and hard to manage. This scenario is familiar to us all. But an interesting question follows: when we talk about "organizing similar photos," what exactly defines "similar"? Is it a series of sunset shots from the same scene with slightly different sun positions? Is it the same composition with one person added or removed? Or is

In the digital world, not all letters are created equal. You've likely felt this, even if you couldn't name the problem. Perhaps you're a designer putting the final touches on a masterpiece in macOS. You name it something perfectly descriptive, like Project Árvore - Final Proposal (ü).psd. You copy it to a USB drive or upload it to a generic cloud folder to share with a client using a Windows PC. Then you see it—the filename distorted beyond recognition, or worse, duplicated into near-clones—and a quiet panic creeps in, and you wonder, did I do something wrong? The answer to the

Incremental backups are a fundamental component of efficient data protection strategies, allowing organizations to conserve bandwidth and compute resources by capturing only the changes made since the last backup. While this methodology is widely implemented, the approach to storing these incremental changes plays a critical role in determining the overall efficiency, reliability, and performance of a backup system. Traditional methods Conventional backup solutions, such as Veeam, typically operate by establishing an initial full backup followed by a sequence of incremental backups. During a restore operation, the system must reconstruct the recovery image by merging the full backup with each subsequent

Time to back up your Windows PCs before updating to Windows 11 as Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 10 support is coming to an end on October 14, 2025. Protect against software vulnerabilities and the risk of ransomware by upgrading your systems and backing up data stored on your Windows PCs. When upgrading to Windows 11, there might be potential issues that arise during or after the upgrade. Windows 11 comes with specific hardware requirements. If a company uses older PCs that do not meet Windows 11 requirements, they might not be able to upgrade their operating system successfully.

In the face of growing data security concerns, organizations are now turning to data protection solutions to protect mission-critical data. As Synology’s Active Backup for Business (ABB) is easy to use and can be used to perform backups and recovery efficiently, it is the primary solution for a number of small and medium-sized enterprises. As businesses grow and the size of their data increases, companies must find a way to manage multiple backup servers as well as data stored across locations. At the same time, companies need to meet the challenges of cybersecurity and regulatory compliance which require implementing advance

In the world of storage, the hard drive is often seen as a commodity. It's easy to assume that any drive with the right interface and capacity will "just work" in a NAS. But after decades of supporting millions of Synology systems across home, SMB, and enterprise environments, we’ve learned otherwise. The hidden cost of unrecognized or incompatible drives Behind every reliable storage deployment lies a finely tuned chain of interdependent elements: hardware, firmware, operating systems, and workload behavior, all working in harmony. But what happens when that integration is missing? We've seen it firsthand through years of customer support

Japanese consumer electronics company Casio recently fell victim to a ransomware attack, causing widespread outages across the company. Casio’s company systems were down for a week, and employee and customer data were leaked. As these types of cyber incidents occur with alarming frequency, organizations are becoming aware of the importance of data security and implementing preventative measures. From an IT perspective, protecting every piece of data is a mammoth task. Daily maintenance of corporate data can be a pain, combining various hardware and software solutions can be inconvenient, the security posture might not meet audit requirements, and companies may be