Synology has launched the DP5200, a compact 1U ActiveProtect appliance designed to give growing organizations and remote offices enterprise-grade backup, centralized management and AI-enhanced cyber protection.

The DP5200 offers up to 36 TB of usable storage and includes the full capabilities of ActiveProtect Manager (APM).

“Businesses today struggle to find data protection that scales to their exact needs without compounding cost and complexity,” said Jia-Yu Liu, executive vice president of Synology’s Data Protection Group.

The appliance supports a wide range of workloads, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows and Linux servers, Windows PCs, macOS, Microsoft 365, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and SMB, NetApp, and Nutanix file servers. Future APM 2.0 updates will add support for Azure VM, Amazon EC2, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, and Google Workspace.

The DP5200 can run as a standalone backup server or serve as a centralized management platform capable of protecting up to 120,000 workloads and monitoring 1,000 servers across multiple locations.

For cyber resilience, the appliance combines multi-factor authentication with immutable WORM storage, logical air gaps, and version-based tiering to meet the 3-2-1-1-0 backup standard.

With the upcoming APM 2.0 update, Synology said the platform will use AI and machine learning to detect backup anomalies and scan for malware, helping ensure restored data remains clean.