*Update* - Since I recorded and edited this video (both times!) a little more information has arisen about ActiveProtect and the DP series (regarding ActiveBackup, Pricing, and Scope). There will be a follow-up video on this one next week and it will be a very special video! In the meantime, you can watch the full summary video on the Synology 2024 event I made yesterday here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wC_gtEGRDJY.html
Good thing you started working with so many other brands. The 4 comments so far pretty much sums it up how many people care about enterprise stuff on RU-vid. At least another 10-15 years before enterprise decision makers are coming to RU-vid for research. Mostly boomers in those positions right now and they aren't watching RU-vid to buy equipment for their large business.
Synology appears to be forsaking the bread and butter users, the masses that made Synology what they are. In stead, they are courting the Enterprise market now, seeking the massive profits that come with that market sector. Synology need to be careful here. The optics of losing interest in the home/prosumer/SMB market will come back to bite them if users feel abandoned and ignored.
I'm sure Synology is aware of people waiting for updates of the 15xx, 16xx and 18xx models. Why not give them any insight about their plans or even a heads up on when new models can be exepected without further details. I can only think of one reason, but I really hope I'm wrong.
Data Protection! Muahahahahaha hahahahahahaha! We'll see how long until that "data protection" security is broken and / or circumvented. Just another thing to sell to businesses.
We have several 12-bay racks units for O365 backups. Synology gimps themselves with "enterprise" business decisions soft-locking units to their disks which in enterprise terms is a common practise. However even filling up half a 12-bay with high capacity HDDs you hit a brick wall by not having bigger NVME drives for metadata and caching. These drives are at best prosumer quality with sub-par write endurance for the price. We had to swap the SSDs to higher capacity Samsung drives with real enterprise performance and use the db unlock script to get rid of the alarms. The DP segment makes sense but the hardware has to catch up to be a credible option.
