Category: Industry

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect almost 10 years ago and has since been enforced more strictly across the European Union. Companies need to comply with GDPR to meet regulatory requirements and safeguard user data. With large companies such as Amazon, Meta, and Google all being fined for GDPR noncompliance, failing to protect user data is no longer an option. Till date, more than €2.7 billion in fines have been issued across Europe for GDPR violations. The GDPR is a European law that mandates how organizations should collect, use, and store personal data in the EU. GDPR

With the rise of sophisticated cyber threats, the Network and Information Systems 2 Directive’s (NIS2) purpose is to protect critical services and infrastructure and hold EU corporations to higher standards, as cyber attacks have risen to 46.5% in EU countries. NIS2 aims to strengthen cybersecurity for network and information systems across the European Union and builds on the NIS1 Directive. NIS2 expands the scope of the original directive, covering a wider range of industries and sectors and applying to more than 100,000 entities across the EU. It classifies businesses into Essential and Important entities and imposes stronger security requirements and

Microsoft Teams is widely used for organizational communication, supporting everything from project collaboration and file sharing to daily conversations. As a result, the data generated within Teams is now critical to business operations. Teams consist of multiple services that are designed for various collaboration needs, including public team channels and private 1:1 chats or group chats. However, many backup solutions focus on team channels, while private chats often go unsupported. This isn’t because chat data is unimportant, but because backing it up introduces significant technical challenges. The hidden complexity behind Teams 1:1 chat backup Although backing up private chats may

As we begin the new year, let’s take some time to reflect on 2025 and take a look at the year ahead. In 2025, businesses faced a wide range of challenges related to data protection, especially IT teams responsible for safeguarding corporate data. As market trends leaned towards strategies such as the 3-2-1-1-0 backup policy and disaster recovery to cyber recovery (DR to CR) methods, we introduced Synology ActiveProtect in 2025 as a way for businesses to consolidate and simplify data protection. ActiveProtect is an integrated, purpose-built backup appliance that unifies data management, security, and scalability so that businesses can

Authored by Rex Huang, Director at Synology Enterprise Application Group behind solutions such as Synology Drive, Office, MailPlus, Calendar, and Chat. It’s been ten years since we first released what would become Synology Office. Back in 2015, the package launched as Spreadsheet, a real-time collaborative spreadsheet tool. As part of DSM 6.0, we soon added documents and then slides, and the suite evolved into what you know today as Synology Office. Since then, we’ve been steadily adding capabilities: new formulas, pivot tables, APIs, AI integration, and dozens of smaller enhancements. Through it all, we’ve stayed true to the original promise:

Authored by Jia-Yu Liu, Executive Vice President at Synology and head of the Application Group behind solutions such as ActiveProtect and Synology Drive. Almost a year ago, we introduced Synology ActiveProtect with a clear vision: simplify data protection through an integrated appliance that unifies management, security, and scalability. That vision was recently validated when ActiveProtect was recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Enterprise Backup Storage Appliances. For us, the recognition underscores what we set out to achieve: helping enterprises move past fragmented tools, unpredictable licensing, and growing ransomware threats. Today, thousands of ActiveProtect appliances

In a 24/7 NAS environment, caching SSDs face relentless random I/O workloads that consumer-grade benchmarks fail to represent. Unlike desktops or client systems, NAS caching involves continuous small-block read/write activity under concurrent access, placing heavy demands on both sustained performance and endurance. To meet these challenges, Synology M.2 NVMe SSDs are designed not only for performance consistency, but also for enterprise-grade endurance and seamless system integration, ensuring reliable cache acceleration across long-term deployments. Uncovering true SSD performance and longevity Despite these real-world demands, SSD product datasheets often highlight impressive peak performance figures and high TBW ratings. The problem is that

With many backup options in the market, some users might select to implement specific backup software from companies such as Veeam. Veeam Backup and Replication is a software-based backup and recovery solution that allows you to protect a wide variety of workloads, allowing you to automate, schedule, and monitor your backups on one platform. It is typically paired with a hardware appliance that would act as a backup repository to store backup data.  As Veeam Backup & Replication platform is not tied down to any particular storage option, users can select a backup repository of their choice, provided that it

When you search for something and the results appear almost instantly, you might find yourself wondering, "How did they do that?" Achieving low-latency response times for what can seem like an endless array of possibilities is no simple task, but it's something that our software engineers strive to accomplish every day. Let's take a closer look at what makes Synology Drive function with such efficiency and how it provides you with lightning-fast results. Building a Foundation for Scale and Reliability Before an application can be fast, it must be built on a solid foundation. In the software world, this means

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