Case Study: Al Anba Newspaper achieves scalable high-availability backups and centralized surveillance with Synology Inc.

Al Anba Newspaper - Customer Case Study

Al Anba Newspaper, a major daily political paper in Kuwait, faced chaotic, manual backups (DVDs, tape drives, older NAS and SAN) for roughly 15 TB of data and lacked a centralized surveillance system for its Axis cameras. To address this, they adopted solutions from Synology Inc., including RS2414RP+ and RS3614xs+ NAS units, Hyper Backup, Synology High Availability, and Surveillance Station.

Synology Inc. built a high-availability cluster with two RS2414RP+ units and configured Hyper Backup to replicate data to an RS3614xs+ Disaster Recovery site, delivering complete hardware and data redundancy and multi-version backups. They also deployed Surveillance Station and the DS cam app to centrally monitor and record cameras with motion-triggered recording to reduce storage. The result: simplified, scheduled backups replacing DVDs/tapes, secure storage expansions handling about 20 TB of archive and current data across production and DR sites, uninterrupted service, and remote access for managers.

Al Anba Newspaper

Atif Ibrahim Bebal

IT Manager