TAIPEI, TAIWAN – March 14, 2014 — /BackupReview.info/ — QNAP® Systems Inc. today announced a partnership with Microsoft® to provide QNAP users with Windows® 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 Windows 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 Windows 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 Windows 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.

“Windows Azure provides scalable, durable cloud storage, backup, and recovery solutions for all sorts of data,” said Maria Wastlschmid, Windows 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. Windows 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. Windows Azure was released on February 1, 2010.

About QNAP
QNAP Systems, Inc., as its brand promise “Quality Network Appliance Provider”, aims to deliver comprehensive offerings of cutting edge network attached storage (NAS) and network video recorder (NVR) solutions featured with ease-of-use, robust operation, large storage capacity, and trustworthy reliability. QNAP integrates technologies and designs to bring forth quality products that effectively improve business efficiency on file sharing, virtualization applications, storage management and surveillance in the business environments, as well as enrich entertainment life for home users with the offering of a fun multimedia center experience. Headquartered in Taipei, QNAP delivers its solutions to the global market with nonstop innovation and passion.

Media Contact
QNAP Systems, Inc.
Edward Lin
886-2-2641-2000
marketing@qnap.com
www.qnap.com

Source: QNAP Systems, Inc.

 

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