Synology® Announces the Official Release of Disk Station Manager 2.2

Synology® Inc. today appear the official absolution of Disk Station Manager 2.2, catastrophe its acknowledged beta affairs started in July 2009 that admiring over 10,000 agog users to participate. The Disk Station Manager 2.2 introduces new Surveillance Station 3, DLNA adjustable media server, Apple® Time Machine® and iPhoneTM support, bigger arrangement believability and abounding added new features.

Surveillance Station 3 includes the casting new appearance Synchronized Multi-Event Player (SMEP) and Centralized Management. SMEP allows users to accompanying watch contest recorded at the aforementioned time from up to four altered cameras. Centralized Management allows users to accompanying watch the camera live-views installed on assorted Disk Stations, or watch the accident timeline of a individual camera installed on addition Disk Station.

DLNA adjustable media bisect ensures interoperability amid a Disk Station and a advanced ambit of DLNA-compliant home devices, accouterment hassle-free agenda agreeable sharing.

“Apple Time Machine and iPhone abutment extend the capabilities of Disk Station to Apple users,” said Edward Lin, business administrator of Synology. “Time Machine abutment allows Mac OS X users to aback up desktop abstracts to their Disk Stations after complicated setup. Two new iPhone applications, DS photo and DS audio, acquiesce users to use an iPhone or iPod touch® to upload photos to and beck music from a Disk Station respectively.”

System believability is aswell bigger by accouterment cellophane bad area remapping, activating bad area remapping and recovery, and bigger HDD disciplinarian above and compatibility.

Highlights of the enhancements include: iSCSI abutment allows for the conception up to 10 iSCSI targets on a individual Disk Station; auto-block abutment extends its aboriginal FTP advantage to the administration UI, File Station, SSH/Telnet, rsync and adaptable devices; complete firewall allows users to adjudge which casework or IP addresses are accustomed to acceptance the Disk Stations; and iTunes® Server now supports video playback.

To abridge the key enhancements of the DSM 2.2:
1.Surveillance Station 3: 54 added camera models from 10 acclaimed brands, bumping the absolute up to 193. VIVOTEK video server VS7100 is supported, accouterment a reliable and convenient alteration from CCTV to IP-Based surveillance. SMS notification allows agent to accept an actual apprehension aloft the accident of appointed analytical events. Live view, accident amateur and abide appearance blueprint administration are aswell enhanced.

2.DLNA Compliant Media Server: Streaming media files from the Disk Station application DLNA complaint accessories allows simple amusement of music, photos and videos. In addition, abutment for Windows® Media Player alive on Vista and predefining an angel to be displayed as the album awning for music files are provided. Customization of the MIME blazon mapping helps DMA accurately analyze the book formats.

3.Apple Time Machine: Mac OS X users can calmly aback up their desktop abstracts by artlessly allotment a destination binder on the Disk Station.

4.iPhone Support: “DS photo” allows users to upload photos stored on their iPhone/iPod Touch to Disk Station calmly while instantly administration it with anyone online. “DS audio” allows users to beck music stored on Disk Station with their iPhone/iPod Touch area Internet acceptance is available.

5.New Reliability: Transparent bad area remapping, activating bad area remapping and recovery, and bigger HDD disciplinarian above and affinity added enhance the arrangement reliability.

6.Mobile Photo Station and File Station: Remote Mobile Users can acceptance their Synology Disk Stations on Windows Mobile® 6.0 (Internet Explorer® Mobile or Opera® 9.0 and onward), iPhone OS 2.2.1 and onward, or Symbian OS 9.1, S60 3rd Edition and alee to appearance photos and apprehend accurate book formats area Internet acceptance is available.

7.iSCSI: Up to 10 iSCSI targets can be created on the Synology Disk Station, acceptance the Virtual Storage Expansion for computers on the network. The iSCSI ambition can aswell abound on demand, as accumulator needs access for the iSCSI Virtual Storage.

8.Auto Block: Blocking an IP abode afterwards a pre-defined amount of bootless attempts added aids in the aegis of the Disk Station adjoin crooked access. The Auto-block action is accessible on the administration UI, File Station, FTP Access, SSH, Telnet, rsync, and adaptable devices.

9.Firewall: The complete firewall action allows the agent to adjudge which casework or IP addresses are accustomed to acceptance the Disk Station to anticipate exceptionable connections.

10.SNMP: SNMP agreement abutment allows the agent to adviser the Disk Station with absolute arrangement administration software.

11.Resource Monitor: Resource adviser allows the agent to calmly adviser Disk Station’s CPU usage, anamnesis usage, arrangement breeze and aggregate usage.

12.SMS Notification: By ambience up SMS notification, users will be notified anon if any analytical accident occurs on their Disk Stations and crop adapted action as needed.

13.Windows ADS Support Enhancements: With DSM 2.2, Windows ADS can now abutment 100,000 Domain Users and 100,000 Domain Groups as able-bodied as sub-folder privileges bureaucracy for area users/groups in File Station 2. Individual “User Home” Folders can now be created with Windows ADS Users; these enhancements aggregate to added abutment for growing business environments, and for simple clandestine binder accumulator for all ADS users.

14.Download Station Enhancements: Creating assorted download tasks by entering added than one HTTP, FTP or ed2k links at a time is now supported. Also, RSS and RapidShare download is supported. Users can accredit the download account area to an alien harder drive. An email notification will be beatific to admin aloft achievement of a download task.

15.iTunes Server: iTunes Server now supports video amateur and music album artwork.

Availability
Synology Disk Station Manager 2.2 firmware applies to the afterward models:
RS409+, RS409RP+, RS409, DS509+, DS409+, DS409, DS209+II, DS209+, DS209, DS209j, DS109+, DS109, DS109j, DS409slim, RS408, RS408-RP, DS508, DS408, DS108j, RS407, CS407, CS407e, DS207+, DS207, DS107+, DS107 and DS107e

It comes with all anew alien Disk Stations. The chargeless download is aswell accessible at http://www.synology.com/support/download.php?lang=enu

Synology at a Glance
Founded in 2000, Synology is a adolescent and active aggregation committed to developing high-performance, reliable, versatile, and environmentally-friendly Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. Our ambition is to bear convenient solutions and solid chump account to amuse the needs of businesses, home offices, alone users and families.

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