Multiple research reports on the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market have indicated a similar trend that the NAS market will show continuing growth in the next five years driven by a wide range of uses by consumers, SOHO and enterprises. This is mainly because most users tend to prefer private cloud over free public cloud despite its popularity for data confidentiality and security considerations. As such, cost-effective and highly-integrated NAS remains in high demand.
To meet the expectations by different customer bases including enterprises, SOHO and home users toward premium quality NAS, ASUSTOR is fully committed to the R&D and integration of NAS software, firmware and hardware and thereby continues to introduce new NAS products with higher performance, more add values and better user experiences. At COMPUTEX 2017, ASUSTOR is presenting AS6302T and AS6404T powered by Intel Apollo Lake Celeron processors as well as AS7004T-i5 and AS7010T-i5, new additions to its 70 series. ASUSTOR is also debuting its latest ADM 3.0 operating system at COMPUTEX 2017.
High-performance new models support seamless playback of 4K video
Quote Lin, Chief Technology Officer, Technical Service Division, ASUSTOR pointed out AS6302T and AS6404T powered by processors of the latest Apollo Lake architecture not only provide exceptional overall performance but also more ideally support video output, such as smooth playback of H.265 4K video, compared to previous generation products. Furthermore, they are embedded with the new HDMI 2.0 interface to fully support 4K 60Hz standard, in addition to the popular USB Type-C interface.
It should be noted that the two NAS models lead the market by featuring the Wake-on-WAN function. Users can easily switch on their NAS through the Internet from the office, home and other places. This feature allows users to save energy consumption and also protects the system from random invasions, safeguarding security of private cloud.
ASUSTOR will also unveil its new AS7004T-i5 and AS7010T-i5 at COMPUTEX 2017. They feature quad-core Intel Core i5 processors which enable significant performance improvement over the previous generation models with Core i3 processors in terms of 4K video playback and transcoding, transmission of massive files and operations of virtual machines and Docker containers. In particular, AS7010T-i5 houses 10 hard drives and additionally supports a 10G network card expansion slot so it satisfies storage needs by media professionals dealing with massive multimedia files on a regular basis.
ASUSTOR additionally introduces expansion enclosures, each supporting four drives, for use with all ASUSTOR NAS to provide users with more flexibility and convenience in capacity scalability.
New OS ADM 3.0 provides network capabilities
Lin further said the operating system ADM 3.0 with a whole new look and extraordinary simplicity will make a debut at COMPUTEX 2017. ADM 3.0 includes new highlights that enable the administrator to group desktop app programs together, create shortcuts to frequently-accessed folders or files by dragging and dropping them, and monitor system resources, storage space, online users and important logs through built-in widgets. More importantly, ADM 3.0 supports EZ-Connect, the Internet connectivity function, so users not familiar with network equipment setting know-how can quickly access their NAS via a peer-to-peer connection from an environment outside of the local LAN, bypassing complicated settings on the router, such as port forwarding.
ASUSTOR is also presenting the new Surveillance Center 2.7 beta version, a real-time cloud-based NAS video surveillance solution. It features full support of ADM 3.0's network connectivity and is added with professional surveillance capabilities, including scheduling camera power on/off, importing and exporting camera settings, exporting video recording files directly from the local terminal through HDMI interface, adding digital watermarks to video recording files and providing video forensic tools.
Allen Yen, Director, Sales & Marketing Division, ASUSTOR commented as a subsidiary of ASUSTeK, ASUSTOR can tap into abundant corporate resources to accelerate product promotion and leverage network equipment from ASUSTeK to deliver premium user experiences. Building its R&D on top of the corporation's N+1 core strategy, which aims to provide consumers N+1 return for the cost of N. This is also the thinking behind ASUSTOR's launch of NAS that unshackles itself from the traditional file server concept to provide a platform full of added values. For example, the first ASUSTOR NAS not only had basic storage and backup functions but also beat the industry to support HDMI and embed a media player, with multiple software tools being added to meet the requirements by power users. ASUSTOR is making these efforts for the purpose of creating more potential applications for users.
Lin added that looking into the future, ASUSTOR will hold onto its original design concept and keep developing additional software functions. Smart forward-looking applications including gateways for smart home applications, AI-based data analysis, sorting, and archiving, seamless integration with public cloud, automated and synchronized backup between cloud and local storage, and even tiered data management are all on ASUSTOR's roadmap.
ASUSTOR plans to showcase multiple new high-performance NAS models at COMPUTEX 2017. New operating system ADM 3.0 will also debut at the exhibition, indicated Quote Lin (right), Quote Lin, Chief Technology Officer, Technical Service Division, ASUSTOR. On the left is Allen Yen, Director, Sales & Marketing Division, ASUSTOR.