Synology and Wasabi Technologies have announced a new partnership to make enterprise data protection easier to manage and more cost-predictable, particularly for organizations facing growing data volumes, tighter compliance requirements, and increasingly aggressive ransomware threats.
The collaboration brings native support for Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage into Synology’s ActiveProtect line of enterprise backup appliances, allowing organizations to extend on-premises backup environments directly into the cloud without adding new tools or management layers. Instead of relying on separate consoles or complex integrations, IT teams can now handle local and cloud backups from a single interface, reducing operational overhead while improving visibility across environments.
At the center of the integration is ActiveProtect Manager, Synology’s centralized backup platform. With Wasabi now available as a built-in S3-compatible destination, organizations can quickly set up off-site backup copies for disaster recovery, long-term retention, or immutable storage. This approach is designed to reduce friction in cloud adoption, especially for teams seeking to strengthen resilience without introducing unpredictable costs or architectural complexity.
As ransomware incidents continue to rise, regulatory expectations around data retention and recovery are becoming more demanding, and storage footprints are expanding faster than many organizations anticipated. The combined Synology and Wasabi solution looks to address these challenges by giving IT teams flexibility in where and how data is protected, while keeping day-to-day management straightforward.
Wasabi’s cloud storage offering focuses on simplicity in both usage and pricing. Its model avoids egress fees (charges for moving data out of the cloud) and API request charges, which are often noted as barriers to effective cloud backup planning. By pairing this pricing structure with Synology’s backup appliances, organizations can plan long-term retention strategies with fewer cost surprises and less need for constant optimization. Security and compliance capabilities, along with global availability, are built into the platform to support a wide range of enterprise workloads.
This integration also supports modern backup frameworks such as 3-2-1-1-0, which emphasize multiple copies of data, off-site storage, immutability, and regular verification. This makes it easier for organizations to maintain recoverable backups, even in ransomware or accidental data loss scenarios, while ensuring those backups remain accessible when recovery is required.
Key features of the joint solution include centralized backup management across on-premises systems, SaaS platforms, and cloud targets, as well as native off-site replication to Wasabi for redundancy and disaster recovery. Immutable cloud storage adds protection against tampering, while flexible tiering and long-term retention options help organizations balance on-premises capacity with cloud scalability. The predictable cost structure of Wasabi’s storage model enables financial planning without hidden charges for data access or movement.
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