Synology NAS

Synology is the NAS most small businesses actually use, and it earns its place: solid SMB file sharing, Active Backup for Business for free agent-based backup of Windows machines and VMs, and snapshots that give you a recovery point ransomware cannot touch if they are configured right.

We deploy rackmount RS and desktop DS units, integrate them with Active Directory, and set up an off-site copy so the NAS is not the only backup.

At a glance

What RackLedge does

• AD-integrated file shares with per-department permissions
• Backup design: local snapshots, Active Backup, off-site Hyper Backup to C2 or a second NAS
• Immutable snapshots and WriteOnce for ransomware resilience
• Drive replacement and RAID expansion

How we work

Storage projects begin with an honest capacity and performance baseline: how much data, how fast it grows, what IOPS and latency the applications actually need. That baseline decides between an entry SAN, a unified array, a NAS or a hyper-converged design, and it keeps vendors from selling you the biggest box.

We build the network under the storage as carefully as the storage itself: isolated iSCSI paths or dual FC fabrics, multipathing on every host and a failover test before anything goes live. Backups get an immutable copy and a restore test on a schedule.

Migrations are run as projects with a written cutover plan, a rollback path and a validation checklist. Old arrays are decommissioned with certified data destruction and the documentation is handed over.

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