"More than 80% of Korean corporations use secure on-premises servers for handling sensitive data. Korea is an important B2B (business-to-business) storage market."
Joanne Wong, head of Synology's International Business Division, held a press briefing on the 23rd at Josun Palace in Gangnam, Seoul, and gave this reason for launching the new enterprise server (storage) product "PAS7700." According to Synology, the PAS7700 is expected to be released in the domestic market around the first quarter of next year.
Synology is the world's No. 1 company with a market share of more than 60% in the global network-attached storage (NAS) market. Synology NAS is used in 160 countries worldwide. NAS is a file server with storage devices such as solid-state drives (SSD) or hard disk drives (HDD) attached, a storage system that uses data via internet access.
Wong said, "In the AI era, the need to build ultra-high-speed on-premises servers has grown with increased data use," adding, "The new storage product for building corporations' servers, 'PAS7700,' is a flagship model that achieves a data processing speed of 30 gigabytes (GB) per second." The "PAS7700" is an all-NVMe (built with 100% SSD) enterprise storage product that implements up to 2 million IOPS (the number of input/output operations processed per second) and 30 GB/s throughput with a dual-controller architecture. With controller redundancy, service can be restored within 5 seconds during software updates, and it features no interruption or latency in data processing.
Wong also introduced the company's new product as having strengths in security. Wong said, "With various hacking incidents surfacing at home and abroad recently, security is becoming more important. Security has become a requirement, not a choice," adding, "By supplying scalable and safe storage solutions, we will help corporations prepare for the future data environment and build secure on-premises AI servers."
Because on-premises servers are separated from public clouds that are connected to the outside, they have significant security advantages. On-premises AI servers refer to AI processing systems that corporations or institutions build on internal, in-house servers rather than externally. Synology provides NAS capable of building enterprise on-premises AI servers and a private cloud solution to operate them. The PAS7700, scheduled for domestic release next year, is Synology's new NAS product.
Wong said, "Corporations are facing complex challenges such as expanding use of hybrid clouds (a model that uses public and private clouds together) and ongoing cyberthreats," adding, "An integrated data management platform that ensures security along with fast data processing speeds is needed." According to a recent survey by Synology, one-third of Korean corporations experienced data loss incidents due to ransomware and hacking.
Wong emphasized that Korea is a market Synology considers important. Wong said, "In the first half of this year, B2B sales in Korea increased 20% from a year earlier, and for some high-scalability models, sales rose 60% year over year," adding, "Korea is an important market for us." Wong added, "Since last year in Korea, AI and automation have emerged as top priorities for IT investment, and next year AI workloads will drive data growth," noting, "Demand for building on-premises servers is also expected to increase accordingly."
Meanwhile, Synology also unveiled "Active Protect," a backup-dedicated appliance, as a data protection solution that day. This product integrates backup software and storage computing functions into a single model and can block cyberthreats at the source by implementing a fully isolated environment.