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Construction:

In the construction industry, huge amount of data are being accessed, stored, and backed up every day. A high performance and reliable storage system is required. QNAP NAS features large storage capacity, high-speed file transfer across platforms, and secure RAID data protection. The NAS can be easily set up and managed in the IT environment. It is also an all-in-one server, which supports FTP server, web server, remote replication, file server, and more. QNAP NAS is an ideal and affordable solution which enhances collaboration with partners and increases productivity.

Benefits of QNAP NAS

• Ease of use and data management
• Data protection with automatic schedulable backups
• Remote access with secured authentication
• Enhanced partners' collaboration

Ease of use and data management

QNAP NAS provides enterprise-grade functionalities and features an intuitive user interface which is easy to use and operate as well as complete online user manual and help so there is no required knowledge or learning curve to start using it.

Data protection with automatic schedulable backups

QNAP NAS offers complete data protection through automatic schedulable backup to your choice of internal or external storage media. To prevent physical damage it also allows you to replicate your valuable data to other remote locations for emergency disaster recovery. At the end of the day you can be sure this large amount of data is safe and secure at all your remote sites.

Remote access with secured authentication

Data and file contents stored on QNAP NAS can be easily set up for remote access from virtually anywhere whenever they are needed. Besides all the data traffic is encrypted using the industrial standards which make it impossible for unauthorised people to view the information travelling across the network.

Enhanced collaboration with partners

QNAP NAS supports full standard network protocols you can facilitate partner collaborations by sharing files across platforms and geographical locations. Account creation for your partners can be done within a few seconds and individual access rights can also be assigned at the same time without complicated procedures.

Education:

Information technology has been widely implemented in education in most developed countries nowadays to encourage more efficient and interactive knowledge sharing, teaching, learning, research, and communication. While the governments have highly encouraged the introduction of IT in education, many schools may find the IT resources insufficient and the cost of hardware maintenance too high. QNAP NAS is a high performance, cost-efficient, easy to install and maintain storage solution with value-added server features to them.

Benefits of QNAP NAS

• Ease of use
• A full-featured web server: Built-in Apache + MySQL + PHP
• Virtual learning environment: E-learning
• Convenient information sharing and exchange

Ease of use

QNAP NAS provides all-in-one features such as file server, FTP server, printer server, access right control with Windows AD support, user account management, and so on. It takes the least IT effort to set up and maintain the server. Even if your school lacks an IT department, you can manage the system and use the features with the user-friendly web interface without hassles.

A full-featured web server: Built-in Apache + MySQL + PHP

QNAP NAS is the perfect fit for primary to tertiary educational institutions to set up their web server using the Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP features. You can build a website for your school easily to publish the school news and interact with your teachers, students, parents, and the public.

Virtual learning environment: E-learning

By hosting the virtual learning environment or course management systems on QNAP NAS, you can provide online classes and distant teaching to local and overseas students.

Convenient information sharing and exchange

Knowledge grows when it is shared among the people. QNAP NAS provides a shared platform to allow your students, staff, and the public to exchange the news, information, and research data over the network. The shared folder aggregation (DFS) is also offered for convenient access to multiple shared folders on the campus network from a portal folder on the NAS.

Geology and Petrophysics:

The geological and petrophysical industry requires storage solutions that provide large capacity and efficient file-sharing for the huge amount of graphical and work data. QNAP NAS supports mass storage (up to 16TB), RAID data protection, Windows AD, secure and high-speed data transfer over the company network, which effectively improves work efficiency. The built-in functions such as FTP server, remote replication, and so on, are offered for convenient data access and backup.

Benefits:

• Cross-platform sharing for enhanced collaboration
• Built-in FTP server for large files sharing
• Secure protection and backup of your petrophysical and geological data

Cross-platform sharing for enhanced collaboration

QNAP NAS supports full standard network protocols you can facilitate partner collaborations by sharing files across platforms (Windows, Mac, UNIX, Linux) and geographical locations. You can create user groups and user accounts with specified access permission to the share folders on the NAS without complicated procedures.

Built-in FTP server for large files sharing

Sending large files by email is not a solution and most of time impossible in your industry. You can use the built-in FTP server of the NAS to exchange data with your partners. Secure FTP feature and access control are supported.

Secure data protection

QNAP NAS is designed with excellent hardware protection against power loss and network failure. The RAID protection (RAID 1/ 5/ 5+hot spare/ 6/ 6+hot spare) protects the data from hard drive failure. Moreover, you can use the secure remote replication for scheduled data backup to a remote location, or back up the data to external storage devices.

Government:

Today the amount of digital data is growing rapidly and the demand for network storage is increasing in almost every government sectors or departments. QNAP NAS is an ideal storage solution which can be integrated with the IT-based projects of the government to bring extra values to the working environment. The NAS supports convenient file transfer and sharing across departments to increase productivity and work efficiency. Multiple built-in applications such as FTP server, web server, remote replication, and file server, can be easily maintained without extra cost and professional IT knowledge.

Benefits of QNAP NAS:

• Easy integration with IT projects
• Low solution costs
• Secure data access control
• Data backup

Easy integration with IT projects

QNAP NAS supports full standard network protocols and can be integrated as the primary or secondary storage. The server requires the least IT resources for setup and maintenance. All-in-one server features such as FTP server, printer server, web server, file server, backup server, and so on are built-in and they can be managed via the web-based interface without professional knowledge.

Low solution costs

QNAP NAS can be utilized as the shared storage of VMware virtualization environments and Windows cluster servers. Compared to Fibre storage systems, the NAS is a more competitive and reasonably-priced network storage solution.

Secure data access control

Industry-class data encryption is provided by QNAP NAS to enhance data security. Individual access rights can be assigned at the same time without complicated procedures. The NAS also provides a comprehensive log system for your IT administrator to keep track of the system events and connection history from different network protocols.

Data backup

QNAP NAS can be configured as the primary and secondary backup centre of the data. The server provides advanced RAID protection against hard drive failure. You can also configure automatic schedulable backup of the data to remote devices. The data can be retrieved more quickly and easily than using traditional tapes.

Manufacturing:

In the manufacturing industry, countless data are stored and exchanged among departments every day. A reliable and high performance storage server is essential. QNAP NAS offers convenient file sharing for cross-department collaboration, advanced RAID data protection, and efficient data transfer. It is the high performance solution to provide mass data storage, efficient data sharing, and rich software applications for your industry.

Benefits of QNAP NAS:

• Enhanced collaboration with vendors and customers
• Data protection and backup
• Ease of management
• Affordable system; large capacity

Enhanced collaboration with vendors and customers

QNAP NAS supports full standard network protocols you can facilitate partner collaborations by sharing files across platforms and geographical locations. Account creation for your collaborators, suppliers, and customers can be done within a few seconds and individual access rights can also be assigned at the same time without complicated procedures.

Data protection and backup

QNAP NAS offers complete data protection through automatic schedulable backup to your choice of internal or external storage devices. To prevent physical damage it also allows you to replicate your valuable data to other remote locations for emergency disaster recovery. The industry standard data encryption feature is also provided to keep your data safe.

Ease of management

You can manage all the settings of the QNAP NAS by the intuitive web-based management interface. Comprehensive logs with automatic alert mechanism are offered for your IT staff to maintain the system more efficiently. The shared folder aggregation (DFS) is also provided for convenient access to multiple shared folders on the local network from one single portal folder on the NAS. Windows Active Directory (AD) is supported for instant import of user accounts from the AD domain.

Affordable system; large capacity

QNAP NAS is a reasonably-priced network storage system with business-class built-in features such as iSCSI service, IPv6, Windows AD and support for VMware and Windows clustered environments. It provides large storage capacity (up to 16TB) and supports virtual disk drives (VDD) which allows the NAS to connect to multiple iSCSI target storages on the network for flexible storage expansion.

Media and Entertainment:

In the media and entertainment industry, tens to hundreds of Gigabytes of high-definition video and image files may need to be accessed and stored daily. QNAP NAS provides large storage capacity and is capable of high performance data transfer by Giga LAN connection (about 100MB/s, depending on the actual network environment) to shorten the waiting time of file access and increase the work efficiency of users. The NAS offers abundant server applications, such as FTP server, web server, remote replication, and file server, which can be managed without extra cost and professional IT knowledge.

Benefits of QNAP NAS:

• Large capacity storage
• Cross-platform accessibility
• Secure backup of digital data
• Advanced data protection
• Instant and convenient information broadcast

Large capacity storage

Nowadays the media files are increasing in size with the growing use of high definition. QNAP NAS provides up to 16TB of storage capacity (8-bay models) for you to store your data safe and sound. You will be able to use this centralized storage to save the giant works (such as the media files created by Photoshop or Premiere) and let your co-workers access the files easily over the network.

Cross-platform accessibility

QNAP NAS is a shared storage for instant access from all your workstations. Whether you are using Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS, you can save the files to the NAS and share the data with your co-workers and customers over the local network and/or the Internet. The shared folder aggregation (DFS) is also provided for convenient access to multiple shared folders on the local network from one single portal folder on the NAS.

Secure backup of digital data

Protecting your creation has never been as easy as using QNAP NAS. You can use the features such as remote replication, scheduled backup, or Time Machine to back up your precious works. Your backup data can be password protected to avoid unauthorised access.

Advanced data protection

QNAP NAS features advanced RAID 1/ 5/ 6/ 5 + hot spare /6+ hot spare which securely protect your data against hard drive failure. Moreover, the UPS feature ensures high system availability and data consistency if an unexpected power outage occurs.

Instant and convenient information broadcast

You can use the Web server and Multimedia Station features of QNAP NAS to create a web site, blog, or forum to publish your company news, pictures, music, and videos, and interact with your users or customers online.

Science Research and Laboratory:

As laboratory automation and experimental techniques advance, the data generated in the laboratory is increasing dramatically in size every day. You may be used to saving the data on the PC or notebooks but will soon realize the storage is insufficient and it is insecure to save your findings due to lack of RAID protection of the hard drives and easy leakage of sensitive data. QNAP NAS is a system with mass storage capacity to meet your storage-hungry environment. Lots of data protection measures are built-in to help you back up the data efficiently and safely.

Benefits of QNAP NAS:

• Data backup and hardware protection
• Secure remote access and control
• Reliable shared storage in virtualized environment
• Research findings publishing

Data backup and hardware protection

QNAP NAS products offer complete data protection through automatic schedulable backup to your choice of internal or external storage media. To prevent physical damage it allows you to replicate your valuable data to other remote locations for emergency disaster recovery. The NAS offers secure RAID 1/5/5 + hot spare/6/6 + hot spare protection.

Secure remote access and control

QNAP NAS supports SSH, SSL, FTPS, HTTPS, WebDAV and so on which allows you to access the laboratory from other remote locations securely. Unauthorised access attempt will be automatically blocked according to your IP filter policy. Individual access rights can be assigned at the same time without complicated procedures. The NAS also provides a comprehensive log system for you to keep track of the system events and connection history from different network protocols.

Reliable shared storage in virtualized environment

QNAP NAS can be deployed as a reliable shared storage on the Windows clustered and virtualized network. No extra setup cost is ever required.

Research findings publishing

You can make use of the built-in web server or install add-ons (popular content management systems such as XOOPS and Joomla!) on the NAS to create a website and publish the findings and research results.