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Taipei, Taiwan, December 05, 2011 – QNAP^® Systems, Inc. today announced its new generation Turbo NAS TS-1079 Pro, designed for high-end SMBs, has received an “Outstanding IT Application & Product” award from TCA (Taipei Computer Association). The award is the highest honor for IT products in Taiwan, with awards given to those that are considered outstanding in their categories. The Turbo NAS TS-1079 Pro was chosen from hundreds of entries due to QNAP’s dedication to continuous innovation.

The Turbo NAS TS-1079 Pro provides powerful performance, seamless cross-platform data sharing, economic cloud backup solutions and reliable virtualization deployment for SMB environments. The Turbo NAS TS-1079 Pro features an Intel^® Core™ i3 dual core processor and 10 Gigabit network capability. With an outstanding data transfer rate of over 1,000 MB/s data throughput and 100,000 IOPS, intensive business applications and concurrent tasks can be easily fulfilled.

The Turbo NAS TS-1079 Pro offers class-leading system architecture matched with 10 GbE networking performance, which will greatly increase the speed of data transmission in a virtualized environment via NFS and iSCSI protocols. It is VMware^® Ready, Citrix^® Ready for XenServer 6.0, and Windows^® Hyper-V compliant. The Turbo NAS TS-1079 Pro is equipped with two eSATA, four USB 2.0 ports and two USB 3.0 ports. The USB 3.0 ports provide high speed backup to external hard drives. EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, and HFS+ file systems are supported to ensure compatibility with Windows, Mac^® OS X, and Linux operating systems.

The Turbo NAS TS-1079 Pro comes with the newest V3.5 firmware, providing Windows AD (Active Directory), an LDAP-based directory service, RTRR (Real-time Remote Replication) and iSCSI LUN Snapshot/Backup for a robust data protection solution.

“As the data value and volume of business data continue to rise, enterprises need high-performance storage solutions which are secure, reliable, and easy to manage. The Turbo NAS TS-1079 Pro, which serves as both IP-SAN (iSCSI) and NAS, can be easily utilized for different business and enterprise applications such as central data backup, disaster recovery, file sharing, virtualization, and video editing storage,” said David Tsao, product manager of QNAP.

The Turbo NAS TS-1079 Pro was launched in September 2011. Find out more about this product at www.qnap.com.