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QNAP Systems, Inc. () is a Taiwanese corporation that specializes in network-attached storage (NAS) appliances used for file sharing,
QNAP primarily produces Network-Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. The company also produces Network Video Recorders (NVR) and a series of networking equipment.
* QTS – an
QNAP Blog
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virtualization
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, storage management and surveillance applications. Headquartered in Xizhi District
Xizhi () is an inner city district in eastern New Taipei City in northern Taiwan, and is located between Taipei City and Keelung City. Compared to most districts in eastern New Taipei, which are very sparsely populated, Xizhi is one of the mor ...
, New Taipei City
New Taipei City is a special municipality located in northern Taiwan. The city is home to an estimated population of 3,974,683 as of 2022, making it the most populous city of Taiwan, and also the second largest special municipality by area, be ...
, Taiwan, QNAP has offices in 16 countries and employs over 1000 people around the world.
QNAP has been a member of the Intel
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''Intelligent Systems Alliance'' since 2011.
Company history
QNAP originally existed as a department within the IEI Integration Corporation, an industrial computing service provider located in Taiwan. In 2004, QNAP Systems Inc. was spun off into a separate company.
Company milestones
* July 2020 – QuTScloud c4.5.1 is released. * October 2020 – QTS 4.5.1 is released. * November 2020 – QuTS hero h4.5.1 is released.Product overview
QNAP primarily produces Network-Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. The company also produces Network Video Recorders (NVR) and a series of networking equipment.
* QTS – an operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also in ...
for NAS devices
* QES (QNAP Enterprise Storage)
* QuTS hero – an operating system similar to QTS that implements ZFS
ZFS (previously: Zettabyte File System) is a file system with volume management capabilities. It began as part of the Sun Microsystems Solaris operating system in 2001. Large parts of Solaris – including ZFS – were published under an open ...
* QuTScloud
* QNE
* QSS
* QuRouter
* The QNAP QHora-301W supports high-speed Wi-Fi 6 and 10GbE connections, while also providing an enterprise-grade SD-WAN VPN to allow multi-site VPN deployment via the cloud.
Vulnerabilities
While QNAP NAS appliances may suffer from very serious vulnerabilities, the company does not usually react to them in a rapid manner. For instance, in 2020, a complete device takeover was discovered by SAM security group, and after they reported to QNAP, the company took more than five months to take care of it. By that time, the vulnerability had already been made public. In April 2021, critical vulnerabilities such as having hardcoded admin passwords in the firmware, or force installing a vulnerable version of a backup application, led to a massive ransomware attack named "Qlocker" which compressed all files smaller than 20 MiB into 7z files using 7-Zip with a 32 character long password. In order to retrieve the password, users had to access an.onion
.onion is a special-use top level domain name designating an anonymous onion service, which was formerly known as a "hidden service", reachable via the Tor network. Such addresses are not actual DNS names, and the .onion TLD is not in the I ...
webpage and pay 0.01 BTC. This caused losses of more than $300,000 for the users.
In 2022 and on going as the item added in August 2022, a lot of users got hit by deadbolt due to systematic vulnerability of QNAP. The company did nothing for the users.
Achievements
2019 *TS-1677X named Best NAS Device of European Hardware Awards 2019 2018 *Received the COMPUTEX Best Choice Award 2018 2017 *TS-451+ named Best NAS Device of European Hardware Awards 2017 2016 *Received the COMPUTEX Best Choice Award 2016 2014 *Received ISO 27001:2013 certification in information security management *Received 2014 iF Product Design Award * Featured in PCWorld's 50 Best Tech Products of 2013See also
*List of companies of Taiwan
Taiwan maintains a stable industrial economy as a result of economic growth and industrialization during the late 20th century, being dubbed as one of the Four Asian Tigers along with Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea. It is a member of both ...
References
External links
* *QNAP Blog
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