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What is QNAP?

QNAP Systems, Inc. is a private Taiwanese company, which originally existed as a department within IT services provider IEI Integration Corporation. In 2004, QNAP Systems Inc. was spun off and became an independent company. It specializes in network-attached storage devices used for file sharing, virtualization, storage management, and surveillance applications.

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Its NAS division is characterized by making models also focused on domestic consumers and SMEs, whose needs and possibilities are very different from what large commercial clients may need. Thus, ordinary people can have a NAS with which to store their files massively and securely in their homes, and access them from anywhere in an increasingly interconnected world.

Its NAS runs on the QTS and QTS Hero operating system, which run under the linux kernel, with what they are Linux distros. QTS is the version of the QNAP operating system focused on home users and SMEs, while its Hero version is made so that large companies with IT teams can monitor usage much better, with larger cybersecurity additions focused on maintaining security. integrity of the large systems they need.