Press Release

Wasabi Partners with QNAP to Offer High Efficiency and Exceptional Performance for Hybrid Cloud

January 8, 2020

Boston, MA - December 18, 2019 - Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company, today announced its integration with QNAP® Systems, Inc. (QNAP), a leading computing, networking and storage solution innovator into several QNAP solutions, including HybridMount, VJBOD Cloud, and Hybrid Backup Sync 3 (HBS 3). QNAP NAS users can now use a cloud object storage service that offers simple pricing, great cost efficiency and uncompromising high performance.

Wasabi hot cloud storage is an enterprise class, tier-free, instantly available cloud storage solution that allows storing infinite amounts of data affordably. Wasabi provides an S3-compliant interface to use with storage applications, gateways, and other platforms. Wasabi brings all cloud storage services under one tier to reduce complexity and increase cost predictability for companies and enterprises featurning no fees for egress or API requests.

“The integration of QNAP’s backup and cloud storage gateway software with Wasabi hot cloud storage creates an affordable pathway for businesses to build a highly efficient hybrid cloud solution with easy and affordable pricing,” said David Friend, co-founder and CEO of Wasabi.

HybridMount is QNAP’s file-based cloud storage gateway solution for accelerating access to major cloud storage services, such as Wasabi. The VJBOD Cloud block-based cloud storage gateway allows QNAP NAS users to accelerate cloud object storage access with additional local data storage, further enhancing availability and reliability. HBS 3 is the latest version of QNAP’s data backup/restore/synchronization solution to assist users with disaster recovery plans. HBS 3 can back up and synchronize data to supported cloud storage services. For these solutions, users can now select Wasabi as their cloud storage and enjoy versatile benefits including low cost and high performance.

“By supporting the popular Wasabi hot cloud storage service, we’re giving QNAP NAS users more choices to freely build a hybrid cloud solution that is fast in response, high in cost efficiency, and flexible in expansion,” said Josh Chen, product manager of QNAP.

About Wasabi:

Wasabi is the hot cloud storage company delivering disruptive storage technology that is 1/5th the price of Amazon S3, faster than the competition with no fees for egress or API requests. Unlike first generation cloud vendors, Wasabi is solely focused on providing the world's best cloud object storage service. Created by co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi is on a mission to commoditize the cloud storage industry. Wasabi is a privately held company based in Boston, MA. Follow and connect with Wasabi on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and our blog.

About QNAP Systems, Inc.:

QNAP Systems, Inc., headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, provides a comprehensive range of cutting-edge Network-attached Storage (NAS) and video surveillance solutions based on the principles of usability, high security, and flexible scalability. QNAP offers quality NAS products for home and business users, providing solutions for storage, backup/snapshot, virtualization, teamwork, multimedia, and more. QNAP envisions NAS as being more than "simple storage", and has created many NAS-based innovations to encourage users to host and develop Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning solutions on their QNAP NAS.

Wasabi PR Contact:

Lindsay Levitts

Kel & Partners

+1.617.519.6551

lindsayl@kelandpartners.com