Synology Launches DSM 6.0 Long-Term Beta and New Hardware

We had the opportunity to attend the Synology 2016 Conference in San Francisco last month. The event gave us quite a bit of insight into what Synology has lined up for the market over the next 6 months or so. The conference dealt with three main topics - Synology NAS units in a business environment, multimedia aspects for home consumers and backup / disaster recovery solutions enabled by the DiskStation Manager (DSM) OS. Synology also took the opportunity to launch the long-term beta for DSM 6.0 and gave us a sneak peek at the new hardware in store for the next couple of quarters.

A few slides from the presentations at the conference are reproduced below along with our comments on how the proposed features fare against what the competition has to offer in this market segment.