Synology Active Backup Surpasses 20M Devices Protected
Synology Active Backup Reaches 20 Million Devices and Accounts Protected
Synology has reached a significant milestone: its Active Backup suite now protects over 20 million devices and accounts worldwide. This achievement reflects the platform’s growing adoption across businesses of all sizes, from small offices to global enterprises. The milestone underscores how organizations increasingly depend on automated, scalable, and secure backup solutions to safeguard their critical data in a world where threats like ransomware, human error, and system failures are all too common.
Active Backup’s widespread use highlights its flexibility and power as a unified protection platform. With support for physical machines, virtual environments, SaaS applications, and cloud workloads, it has become a cornerstone of enterprise data protection strategies and a key reason many organizations achieve continuity and resilience in the face of disruption.
Why 20 Million Devices Is a Meaningful Milestone
Reaching 20 million protected endpoints is more than a numerical achievement; it represents the trust that businesses place in Synology’s approach to data protection, backup orchestration, and recovery. Active Backup’s growth reflects several core strengths:
1. Broad Platform Coverage
Active Backup supports comprehensive protection for physical servers, endpoints, virtual machines (VMware and Hyper-V), Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and file servers. This wide coverage eliminates the need for fragmented backup tools, reducing complexity and cost.
2. Centralized Management
A unified dashboard gives IT teams visibility into all backup jobs, health status, and recovery readiness from a single pane of glass. This centralized view streamlines monitoring and makes compliance reporting simpler.
3. Strong Security Posture
Active Backup includes features such as snapshot-based recovery, immutable backups, role-based access control (RBAC), and encryption, all essential for safeguarding against evolving cybersecurity threats.
4. Scalability and Performance
From small business setups to enterprise deployments with thousands of endpoints, Active Backup scales efficiently. Its deduplication, compression, and smart retention policies help reduce storage footprint and cost.
These strengths help explain why so many organizations have adopted Active Backup as a primary tool in their continuity strategies.
Active Backup’s Role in Enterprise Data Protection
In today’s digital landscape, data protection is not just about backing up files; it’s about ensuring business continuity and compliance. A ransomware attack, accidental corruption, or prolonged outage can be disastrous if recovery isn’t fast and reliable. Active Backup helps organizations:
Automate backups across platforms
Reduce recovery time objectives (RTOs)
Maintain long-term retention aligned with policies.
Support compliance frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO
By consolidating backup workflows into one platform, businesses eliminate the need to manage multiple point solutions, reducing operational overhead and increasing reliability.
Key Features Driving Adoption
Snapshot and Versioned Recovery
Active Backup leverages point-in-time snapshots, enabling the restoration of individual files, entire systems, or application data rapidly, minimizing downtime.
Built-In Deduplication and Compression
These features help control storage costs by reducing duplicate data and optimizing available space without compromising protection.
Multi-Tenant and Role-Based Controls
Large enterprises and MSPs benefit from advanced RBAC and segregated views, improving security governance and operational delegation.
Seamless Cloud Integration
Whether protecting local servers or SaaS workloads like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, Active Backup ensures seamless integration into hybrid IT models.
Why This Matters for Businesses Today
Growing data volumes, regulatory compliance requirements, and escalating cyber threats underscore the importance of enterprise backup platforms that are both robust and easy to manage. Achieving 20 million protected devices indicates that organizations trust Active Backup to:
Handle diverse workload types.
Deliver consistent performance at scale.
Provide fast, reliable recovery during incidents.
Support strategic continuity planning.
This level of adoption demonstrates confidence in Synology’s technology and its ability to address evolving business needs.
Synology Active Backup in Context
Synology Active Backup is part of a broader ecosystem that emphasizes hybrid cloud architecture, centralized management through Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM), and scalable storage infrastructure. Alongside tools like ActiveProtect, Synology C2 Cloud, Snapshot Replication, and Hybrid Share, Active Backup helps form a comprehensive data protection strategy for modern enterprises.
Synology continues to enhance these tools with improved automation, security integrations, analytics, and user experience enhancements—making it easier for organizations to protect, restore, and manage business-critical data in a unified framework.
How Epis Technology Enhances Synology Active Backup Deployments
While Active Backup delivers powerful out-of-the-box protection capabilities, many enterprises benefit from expert deployment and optimization support. Epis Technology specializes in implementing scalable and secure Synology backup architectures tailored to your business’s needs. The team begins with a thorough assessment of your IT environment, regulatory requirements, continuity objectives, and performance expectations.
Epis Technology then designs and configures Active Backup policies, retention strategies, and hybrid cloud integrations that align with your operational goals. They also integrate security hardening, automated monitoring, disaster recovery planning, and compliance reporting workflows. With ongoing optimization and support, Epis Technology ensures your Synology backup infrastructure remains resilient, efficient, and aligned with your strategic continuity framework—so you can focus on delivering value to your organization without backup headaches.
Best Practices for Leveraging Active Backup
To maximize the value of your Synology Active Backup deployment:
1. Automate and Standardize Policies
Define retention, frequency, and versioning based on regulatory needs and business SLAs.
2. Pair Local and Offsite Protection
Use hybrid cloud strategies such as integrating Synology C2 to create off-site redundancy.
3. Test Recoveries Regularly
Scheduled restore tests build confidence and verify recovery workflows work under real conditions.
4. Harden Security Controls
Implement RBAC, encryption, multi-factor authentication, and network segmentation to protect backup infrastructure.
5. Monitor and Report Continuously
Use dashboards and alerts to stay ahead of capacity, performance, and compliance risks.
Synology’s Active Backup surpassing 20 million protected devices and accounts is a testament to its reliability, scalability, and relevance in today’s data-driven enterprise landscape. As businesses confront greater complexity and higher expectations for continuity, having a unified and powerful backup solution has never been more important.