Synology has introduced the DP5200, a compact data protection appliance designed to help growing businesses and remote offices protect critical data without adding complexity or increasing IT costs.
The DP5200 expands Synology’s ActiveProtect portfolio with a 1U appliance that provides up to 36 TB of usable storage while combining backup, recovery, and centralized management in a single system. The appliance is designed for organizations with multiple branch offices, as well as managed service providers (MSPs) supporting several customers.
“Businesses today struggle to find data protection that scales to their exact needs without compounding cost and complexity,” said Jia-Yu Liu, executive vice president of the Data Protection Group at Synology. “We designed the DP5200 to give organizations and MSPs a space-efficient, unified solution that deploys effortlessly across branch offices, remote sites, and data centers while delivering maximum value.”
For Philippine organizations, where businesses are increasingly adopting hybrid work, cloud services, and multiple office locations, protecting data across different systems has become more challenging. The DP5200 is designed to simplify backup management by allowing IT teams to secure servers, employee devices, cloud applications, databases, and file servers from one platform.
The appliance supports VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows and Linux servers, Windows PCs, macOS devices, Microsoft 365, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, SMB file servers, NetApp, and Nutanix systems. Synology said broader support is planned with the upcoming ActiveProtect Manager (APM) 2.0 update, including Azure Virtual Machines, Amazon EC2, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, and Google Workspace.
The DP5200 can also scale as organizations grow. It can operate as a standalone backup server for a single site or serve as a centralized management platform capable of protecting up to 120,000 workloads and monitoring as many as 1,000 backup servers across multiple locations through a single dashboard.
Synology said the DP5200 follows the widely recommended 3-2-1-1-0 backup strategy using immutable WORM storage, logical air gaps, and version-based tiering to reduce the risk of ransomware and accidental data loss.
With the planned release of APM 2.0, the company said the appliance will also add AI and machine learning capabilities to detect unusual activity during backups and scan data for malware before it is restored, helping organizations recover clean copies of their data after a cyberattack.