QuTS hero – beyond your expectations!
From storage management to collaborative media workflows, QuTS hero streamlines your business-critical tasks.
Small-to-medium sized businesses without dedicated IT staff
In small office environments, centralized data storage with easy management is essential to streamline everyday file creation and sharing. However, small businesses may lack the requirement or budget for dedicated IT staff...
You may encounter these problems:
- It’s hard to centralize and easily manage data storage
- No unified and reliable backup and recovery plan
- Setting user authentication is tedious - especially when employees come and go
QuTS hero enables efficient multi-user access management and more business tasks
A NAS provides centralized data storage, and with QuTS hero it allows cost-effective, fast, near-limitless snapshots for a single LUN/shared folder without using excessive storage space. This enables fast offsite backup for recovery planning while also mitigating ransomware threats. QuTS hero also supports JumpCloud®’s cloud-based LDAP service that greatly simplifies user management and authentication for secure access to NAS-based files. The easy-to-use JumpCloud® allows end users to self-serve even without the help from IT staff, making it ideal for small-scale business or workgroups with a small user base.
Time-sensitive collaborative media editing
When it comes to storing and sharing media files, it is incredibly important for editors in studios and TV stations to have stable file access and the ability to edit and share media files simultaneously with their group members.
You may counter these problems:
- Unexpected corruption to RAW images during file editing
- Team members cannot access the NAS and edit media files concurrently and smoothly in a collaborative workflow
- How to quickly find specific files within a massive media collection?
QuTS hero inline data compression and deduplication enhances smooth video editing
Featuring high performance, high capacity, and scalability, QNAP NAS presents the ideal solution for storing high-resolution media files. QNAP also provides NAS with 5GbE, 10GbE and Thunderbolt™ connectivity as well as PCIe expansion for 10GbE/ 25GbE/ 40GbE connectivity to meet diverse application needs. With QuTS hero’s self-healing capabilities, data integrity is ensured by automatically detecting and correcting silent data corruption. Inline data compression and deduplication can assist in optimizing the amount of data to be written, while the ZIL can improve write speeds of data from video editing workstations. Even if there are four to eight people simultaneously editing and transferring videos, collaborative workflows remain streamlined and smooth. QNAP’s powerful NAS-optimized Qsirch search engine also assists in tracking down specific files within huge storage arrays.
Enterprises that require reliability, efficiency, and flexibility
The amount of data generated by modern enterprises is staggering, providing a serious challenge for IT staff. Enterprises require storage systems with uncompromising reliability and stability to empower their growth and day-to-day operations while satisfying demands in operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Common IT challenges for large enterprises:
- Reliable data storage to secure mission-critical data and applications
- Future-proofed backup and disaster recovery planning
- Agile and cost-efficient data storage architecture
- Simplified user and authentication management
QuTS hero empowers high-performance VDI and future-proofed disaster recovery planning
With a focus on data integrity, QuTS hero reduces the risk of data corruption caused by data write errors or system power failures. Its unique RAID Z configuration further realizes a more flexible storage capacity implementation with ensured data protection. Inline data deduplication and compression greatly improve storage efficiency, while also notably increasing VDI application performance. Organizations can build their disaster recovery plan using the efficient snapshots and SnapSync for remote snapshot backups to secure data and uninterrupted business operations. For cross-region branches, IT teams can utilize Azure AD®’s cloud-based identity and access management service to work productively for user management with access to various applications, devices, and networks; and use cloud gateway services to connect local applications to public cloud storage for centralizing the data generated from different regions. This not only allows members across the board to access the same data, but also acquires double protection with cloud backups.
Enterprise -grade data centers
Server virtualization has become common in enterprise environments, and virtualized applications demand adequate storage with business-ready features. Database servers that process data-intensive and high-speed applications can be constructed in a Fiber Channel SAN environment.
Major considerations for deploying large-scale data centers:
- Flexible deployment and management in virtualization environments
- Performance requirements for virtualized applications
- Data security for mission-critical applications
QuTS hero emphasizes data security, supports virtualization, and cloud integration
A QNAP NAS with QuTS hero prioritizes data security and system stability while supporting virtualization, making it ideal for data centers running mission-critical applications. It supports VMware® vSphere®, Microsoft® Hyper-V®, Windows Server®, Citrix® XenServer®, and Veeam® virtual platforms. It can also host multiple virtual machines to operate large server applications. With SSD caching enabled, IOPS performance in virtualization applications can be greatly improved. Block-level inline data deduplication and compression help realize cost-efficient storage while instant snapshots and SnapSync can be the cornerstone of an effective disaster recovery plan. QuTS hero also supports Fibre Channel (FC), allowing organizations to deploy QNAP NAS as a cost-effective SAN storage device to meet the needs of high performance and backup in SAN environments.
Notes
- QuTS hero requires a NAS with at least 8GB memory.
- Inline Data Deduplication requires a NAS with at least 16GB memory (at least 32GB memory is recommended for optimal performance).
- QuTS hero is not supported by dual-controller NAS systems.
- As QTS and QuTS hero use different file systems, the NAS system must be re-initialized before switching between QTS and QuTS hero. Users must back up their data and system settings beforehand.
