Synology DSM 4.1 Beta

W dniu jutrzejszym Synology oficjalnie zaprezentuje nowe oprogramowanie DSM 4.1 do serwerów Synology. Wersja Beta ma wprowadzić dużo zmian, poniżej lista, którą otrzymaliśmy bezpośrednio od firmy Synology:

Funkcje biznesowe XS+ 

• 2 devices: RS3413xs+ and RS10613xs+
• Ivy Bridge Intel Xeon Cores rated at 3.1 Ghz
• Support of SATA III and SAS hard drives plus SSDs acting as caches
• 8GB ECC RAM, expandable to 32GB
• 4GBit Ethernet LAN plus two optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet LAN interfaces using PCIe-Cards
• Reaching a performance of more than 2.000 MB/s and 200.000 IOPS
• RS34… using Infiniband to connect expansion devices, RS106… using double SAS connections (double for failover)
• -> Maximum capacity of more than 400TB
• Passive CPU cooling
• Power, network and cooling redundant
• High Availability function to completely mirror two XS+ devices. If one fails, the other one will take up all services without interruption using VLAN mechanisms; synchronisation of data on block level
• Raid Groups to put one volume on top of multiple Raids
• Global Hot Spare drives which will replace any failing hard drive whenever needed immediately
• Support of VAAI hardware acceleration to speed up virtualisation performance
• Advanced Ressource Monitor which now includes logging of used ressources
• SNMPv3 support
• better Mail Station including SMTP Relay, Auto Reply and Forward, statistics on send and received mails, a second spam filter system, alias-adresses and more
• Quality of service (QoS) to limit bandwith of certain applications based on TCP-port
• Bandwith control also on user basis which means you can limit WebDAV, FTP and File Station transfers based on user/group (no SMB so far)
• Advanced Syslog server able to log up to 3000 logs per second, with advanced notification and logging
• Cloud Station to support synchronisation among multiple users and there might be a Linux client coming!

Surveillance Station 6

• Visual Station 240HD coming, able to display HD material
• new UI (especially new color scheme)
• „Virtual barrier” which you can put e.g. at your door and it will alarm if somebody crosses that
• Object count e.g. to see how many people went into a building
• No-Idle-Zone to detect objects which went into an area and stayed there (e.g. parking cars in emergency areas to be kept free)
• Independent time server to use with cameras
• Surveillance Station API
• more flexible layouts to view cameras

DSM 4.1

• new Video Station to organize all videos you have on your NAS
• importing Meta data from International Movie Database
• able to record TV through USB DVB-sticks (they said they only tested DVB-T sticks yet)
• DS video app to use Video Stations functions on the go
• Photo Station now with „Timeline”-function to display images across folders by year
• Photo Station supporting face recognition
• Audio Station with new UI
• personal Audio Station coming, comparable to personal Photo Station
• Synchronised Playback across multiple AirPlay-devices
• lyrics on Audio Station
• connecting to internet via proxy server
• new web app packages (probably through package center; mediawiki, moodle, osticket, joomla, drupal, phpBB, sugarCRM, osCommerce, magento)
• synchronisation of folders with consolidation of multiple sources
• IT-self service including paste bin accessible by every user and easy sharing through QuickConnect using the Synology gofile.me service
• SFTP support
• FXP support for ftp server
• Samba update to version 3.6
• Offline mode of iOS DS audio
• new UI for Android DS audio and ability to edit playlists
• broad Windows Phone 7 support also with apps DS audio and DS photo+
• DS download app for Download Station (first iOS, Android to be added later)
• unpacking zip files with Download Station including password
• faster creation of preview pictures used for Photo Station and others
• Media Server supporting indexing of external drives
• iTunes supporting more formats through transcoding

Premiera DSM 4.1 została przesunięta na 10 lipca !!!