We are pleased to showcase the latest and greatest QNAP NAS solutions at the annual GITEX Technology Week, said Alvin Wu, Sales Manager of Middle East and Africa of QNAP. Visitors can expect to see versatile NAS solutions tailored for home users, small-and-medium, businesses, and enterprise storage centers with excellent hardware and innovative software technologies. There is also a demonstration of joint storage solutions with Seagate (IronWolf) and WD (WD Red) drives.

Backup& Restoration to Ensure Business Continuity

QNAP ensures effective business continuity and data security with well-rounded backup and disaster recovery solutions, including RTRR, rsync, VM backup solution and cloud storage backup. The block-based snapshot function is enhanced with greater management of dedicated snapshot space and snapshot replication, providing dependable methods for mitigating the growing threat of ransomware.

24/7 Security with Professional NAS Video Surveillance System

QVR Pro provides a professional, scalable and cost-effective network surveillance solution for 24/7 security. The next-generation QVR Pro integrates comprehensive video surveillance features into QNAP NAS, ensuring a dedicated recording environment with the advantages of storage scalability and flexible management.

QNAP NAS as VM Hosts to Enhance IT Efficiency

QNAPs Virtualization Station is a full virtualization solution for x86-based QNAP NAS with virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V) that allows users to operate and manage multiple virtual machines on the same NAS with highly-anticipated snapshot protection. Virtualization Station can help organization to consolidate server applications and to reduce the cost of managing physical servers.

QIoT Solution Partners

QNAP provides secure private storage along with the value-added Container Station and QIoT Suite Lite for greater possibilities in IoT applications.ORing (Booth: Zabeel Hall, Stand Number Z-13) focuses on industrial applications and continues to develop new applications such as smart medical care and street lights.OPCOM Farm (Booth: Hall 8, Stand Number D8-20) provides intelligent indoor hydroponics farm for different application such as education, home, commercial and green factory. OPCOM Farm cloud system with QIoT cloud storage technology, the OPCOM farm indoor hydroponic system can leverage high-capacity QNAP storage and data analysis capabilities.

“Backing up and restoring data at anytime, anywhere is a basic requirement of IT management,” said Norman Tsai, Product Manager of QNAP, adding “Hybrid Backup Sync incorporates commonly-used network protocols and cloud services with a user-friendly interface to provide a flexible and productive tool for businesses and individuals to simplify backup and restoration tasks.”

As a hybrid cloud solution that leverages storage of private and public storage, Hybrid Backup Sync provides multiple ways to create customized job plans for data preservation, including backup from an external device to a QNAP NAS, or from one NAS to other local, remote and cloud storage for double protection. Options for data backup and synchronization include USB one-touch backup and remote synchronization via RTRR, rsync, FTP or CIFS/SMB.

Hybrid Backup Sync supports various cloud services for real-time sync or scheduled backup of data, including Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, Dropbox, Dropbox Business, Amazon Drive, Yandex Disk, Box, hubiC, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, HiDrive, Backblaze B2, HKBN and Amazon S3/OpenStack Swift/WebDAV compatible services.

The powerful 8-bay, quad-core TS-831X includes two 10GbE SFP+ ports to fully support 10GbE high-speed networks at a budget price with maximized ROI. The TS-831X provides versatile all-in-one functionalities and unique features including VJBOD (Virtual JBOD), which introduces an economical way to utilize unused NAS storage space for expanding the storage capacity of other QNAP NAS, and Container Station, which allows you to rapidly develop and deploy Internet of Things (IoT) apps. The TS-831X is a cost-effective storage solution designed for growing businesses looking for backup, restoration, private cloud, storage for virtualization, and to future-proof their IT infrastructure for 10GbE networks.

Key features:
• 10GbE readiness, SSD cache, and hardware-accelerated encryption engine
• VJBOD allows using the TS-831X to expand the storage capacity of other QNAP NAS
• Enjoy containerized virtualization and IoT app development with Container Station
• Build a private cloud to centrally organize & manage files and backup tasks
• Secure access with VPN Server & VPN Client
• Quickly find files using a real-time, natural search with Qsirch
• Scalable design with 2 QNAP expansion enclosures UX-800P for total storage capacity of up to 24 drives

QNAP and Redington Gulf signed a distribution agreement for dealership in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region on October 5th, 2016 in BurJuman Arjaan, Dubai, and Redington Gulf is now an authorized partner for full-spectrum QNAP NAS products.

“We are delighted to cooperate with QNAP to develop the Middle East market and bring comprehensive NAS solutions and versatile applications to both home and business users,” said Jeetendra Berry, Vice President of Volume Division of Redington Gulf.

“The demand for NAS is booming in the Middle East market, and QNAP will strive to gain a dominant market share through widespread channels and localized customer service. The Middle East is one of the key target markets for QNAP sales penetration, and we are honored to have such a strong and renowned partner like Redington Gulf. We are looking forward to a win-win situation with notable market growth together,” said Tim Chen, GCC Territory Sales Manager of QNAP.

Qget is a convenient, easy-to-use download management app for QNAP NAS. Its support for DDNS and CloudLink makes it easy to connect to the NAS, and users can directly add BT, HTTP, FTP, and Magnet link download tasks to Download Station with the built-in web browser as well as setting up download schedules. Qget also supports RSS feeds for users to subscribe to desired contents and to automatically download files.

“We are happy to introduce Qget for iOS devices to allow users to experience this handy, useful app for flexibly managing downloads at anytime and anywhere, and to enjoy an enriched entertainment life with their QNAP NAS,” said Dylan Lin, Product Manager of QNAP.

Qget supports iOS devices with iOS version 7.0 (or newer). To enjoy the full functionality of Qget, QNAP NAS users should upgrade their firmware to QTS 4.2 (or newer) and install Download Station from the QTS App Center.

The Qget iOS app is now available on the App Store