Synology Japan targets enterprise push with November 11, 2026 event

Synology is a Taiwan-based maker of NAS and enterprise storage, backup and related hardware. At its November 11, 2026 press conference, the company framed AI adoption as a data problem rather than a model problem. Joanne Weng noted that as data volumes surge, management and protection challenges grow with them.

Lai Yongling, the company's sales and marketing head, pointed to data silos, unstructured data, data gravity and security and AI governance as the barriers. She argued that AI models are already capable enough, but many organizations are not prepared in terms of data quality. She also said that moving all data to the cloud is unrealistic for cost, privacy and regulatory reasons, and that high-value data tends to stay on-premises, a phenomenon she called data gravity.

She also flagged security risks: attackers using AI to find unknown vulnerabilities and automate attacks, and the need to guard against internal AI agents destroying critical data. In Japan, Synology says manufacturing customers are its most common adopters, with healthcare adoption increasing recently. Both industries share a need for reliable storage and protection of critical data and safe data sharing.