QNAP® Systems, Inc. today updated QTS  4.0, Turbo NAS operating system, for its business-class Turbo NAS models,  featuring advanced functions for SMB users, including 400TB scale-up solution, intelligent Storage Manager, flexible volume  management with thin-provisioned volume supported, SSD cache, SMART data  migration, VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX support and more, and greatly enhancing  the efficiency in storage management, expansion, data process, and management  in virtualization environments.   

"Our  previous release of QTS 4.0 for home-class Turbo NAS models has been a great  success with tremendous positive feedback from our users," said Tony Lu, product  manager of QNAP. "Now we are pleased to bring forth the QTS 4.0 for QNAP’s  business-class Turbo NAS models that we believe will greatly benefit business  applications of the Turbo NAS," added Lu.   

400TB scale-up  solution
      The newly launched QNAP RAID expansion enclosures,  REXP-1200U-RP and REXP-1600U-RP, are designed  to expand the Turbo NAS  storage capacity over 400TB raw capacity  to cope with the growing data of businesses. "The  storage expansion solution is economical and it helps businesses invest only for the storage capacity needed at initial setup, and have the flexibility to expand  the storage capacity on demand,”  said Lu.   

Flexible volume management
      QTS  4.0 introduces the Storage Pool that allows IT administrators to aggregate multiple RAID  groups of different levels as a big storage pool to flexibly utilize the  storage capacity as a whole. In the Storage Pool, multiple volumes can be  created, coupled with features including block-level iSCSI LUN, online capacity  expansion, thin-provisioned volume, and space reclaim. Through the intuitive  graphical interface, provided by QTS 4.0 Storage Manager, IT administrators can  easily manage storage systems on a centralized platform.

Proactive data protection
      QTS 4.0 provides enhanced features to secure important  business data, including RAID Hot Spare and Global Hot Spare drives, SMART data  migration, Time-Limited Error Recovery and Error Recovery Control, and advanced RAID read error recovery  technology. The proactive data protection makes  the Turbo NAS a reliable storage for businesses’ mission-critical needs.       

New virtualization  experience
      QNAP  business-class Turbo NAS is a virtualization-ready storage solution supporting  VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. Advanced hypervisor  offload features are supported, including VMware VAAI for iSCSI and NAS, and  ODX in Microsoft Windows Server 2012. These hypervisor offload features brought by QTS 4.0 highly   increase performance in the virtualization environment. Moreover,  QNAP vSphere Client plug-in and QNAP SMI-S provider for Microsoft System Center  Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) remarkably increase management productivity and  efficiency.   

Performance acceleration 
     QTS 4.0 supports  SSD caching, which can greatly boost IOPS performance of volumes, and 10GbE  network bandwidth, increasing operation efficiency for intensive database  environments that require fast data transmission, such as data center or a virtualized  IT environment.

    The support of SMB 2.0 improves Microsoft  Networking performance. Windows users will  enjoy faster transmission speeds and read performance even though there are  multiple concurrent users or in a high latency network environment such as VPN  between two offices.       

A well-rounded NAS system
      Apart  from these enhanced business features, QTS 4.0 provides versatile functions  such as file synchronization with Qsync utility, cross-platform file sharing, comprehensive  backup solutions with QNAP NetBak Replicator utility, Apple Time Machine support, Real-Time  Remote Replication (RTRR), rsync and cloud storage support, and advanced  privilege settings with Windows AD/ACL and LDAP, performing as a powerful and  comprehensive Turbo NAS system.   

Availability   

The updated QTS 4.0 with advanced business features is available for the following  Turbo NAS models:   

TS-EC1679U-RP,  TS-1679U-RP, TS-EC1279U-RP, TS-1279U-RP, TS-1270U-RP, TS-EC879U-RP, TS-879U-RP,  TS-870U-RP, TS-1079 Pro, TS-879 Pro, TS-1269U-RP, TS-869U-RP,  TS-469U-SP, TS-469U-RP, TS-869 Pro, TS-669 Pro, TS-569 Pro, TS-469 Pro,  TS-269 Pro   

REXP-1200U-RP  and REXP-1600U-RP are available for TS-x79 series and TS-x70U series.   

SSD caching function is not available for TS-x69 series.

For more information, please visit www.qnap.com