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QNAP Supports Free Microsoft Azure Cloud Backup
Taipei, Taiwan, March 12, 2014 – QNAP® Systems Inc. today announced a partnership with Microsoft® to provide QNAP users with Microsoft® Azure cloud backup support. The Azure Storage app is available from the QTS App Center on Turbo NAS units with QTS 4.0 or newer versions. Users can easily install the app and start backing up their NAS data to the Microsoft Azure cloud storage for disaster recovery and archiving.
“Turbo NAS offers users a range of cloud backup solutions to safeguard their data, and we are pleased to provide an additional alternative by partnering with Microsoft that offers Microsoft Azure for secure cloud storage,” said Jérôme Jaussaud, product manager of QNAP. “It is also beneficial for existing Microsoft users to utilize QNAP Turbo NAS as a centralized storage solution and to back up their NAS data to Microsoft Azure cloud storage for easy data restoration.”
By using the Azure Storage app, Turbo NAS users can quickly set up multiple accounts, create scheduled jobs to automate the backup, and restore any folders from the backup data. The Azure Storage app advances data protection by supporting client side encryption, effectively preventing data breach even if the user's cloud storage account is compromised. Other supported functions include incremental backup, restoring deleted data, multi-threaded upload, extensive file type filtering options, configurable error recovery options, and more.
“Microsoft Azure provides scalable, durable cloud storage, backup, and recovery solutions for all sorts of data,” said Maria Wastlschmid, Microsoft Azure Product Manager of Microsoft Germany. “We are pleased to offer the great solution to QNAP users.”
Availability
The Azure Storage app is now available as beta version for business and home Turbo NAS models upgraded to QTS 4.0 NAS OS or newer version.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. Microsoft Azure was released on February 1, 2010.
About QNAP
QNAP (Quality Network Appliance Provider) is devoted to providing comprehensive solutions in software development, hardware design and in-house manufacturing. Focusing on storage, networking and smart video innovations, QNAP now introduce a revolutionary Cloud NAS solution that joins our cutting-edge subscription-based software and diversified service channel ecosystem. QNAP envisions NAS as being more than simple storage and has created a cloud-based networking infrastructure for users to host and develop artificial intelligence analysis, edge computing and data integration on their QNAP solutions.
