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QNAP® Systems, Inc. announced today a partnership with TappIn™, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of GlobalSCAPE (NYSE MKT: GSB), a leading innovator of secure information exchange solutions for businesses and consumers. TappIn by GlobalSCAPE’s secure content mobility solution will be available to QNAP’s customers using the storage vendor’s popular NAS devices. TappIn provides a secure, integrated service for customers to receive on-the-go access to digital contents stored on a QNAP Turbo NAS device from any web-browser, tablet, or smartphone, including Apple iOS®, Google® Android™, Windows Phone 7®, and Kindle Fire. QNAP customers simply register for TappIn and begin accessing their contents on any Turbo NAS device via a TappIn web application or mobile apps.
According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), the volume of digital information may balloon from 2.7 zettabytes this year — the equivalent of filling 2.7 billion of Apple® Inc.’s priciest desktop iMacs to capacity — to 8 zettabytes by 2015. The explosion of digital content is paralleled by the proliferation of devices on which people can access it. As this market’s demand continues to increase, QNAP’s integration of TappIn by GlobalSCAPE into its NAS devices will provide a solution for its customers that allows comprehensive local storage, and enables simple and secure content mobility, helping QNAP to continue its trend as one of the top providers of NAS and unified storage devices in the industry.
“As mobility increasingly makes every facet of our lives available at the touch of a screen, QNAP customers are looking for solutions that not only allow them to securely store their data, but access it anytime, anywhere,” said Jérôme Jaussaud, product manager of QNAP. “By partnering with TappIn, QNAP can now offer its customers secure access to the digital content they store on our Turbo NAS devices from any remote computer or mobile device, without the hassle or expense of moving or syncing that content to the cloud.”
With TappIn by GlobalSCAPE, users can safely access data directly from most operating systems, platforms, and mobile devices. TappIn’s innovative secure cloud pathway eliminates the need to upload, sync, or pay for additional cloud storage. With the TappIn service, QNAP Turbo NAS customers can securely access and share files of any size with encryption to safeguard content.
TappIn free edition is available for 1 user account for thirty days, and additionally, the TappIn Standard Edition subscription will be available to QNAP customers for a special $17.99 price annually or a $1.50 monthly charge.
“QNAP has made it its mission to provide customers with the highest level of functionality and the widest array of options to meet a variety of storage needs,” said Chris Hopen, president of TappIn, Inc. “The integrated QNAP/TappIn offering empowers mobile users to easily and securely store and access digital content contained on QNAP Turbo NAS devices while adding little cost to their bottom line. This partnership highlights TappIn’s ability to bring our partners and their customers the secure, versatile access that today’s mobile world demands.”
Availability
TappIn by GlobalSCAPE is now available on all QNAP Turbo NAS units installed with NAS firmware version 3.6 onward.
For more information please visit: http://www.qnap.com
About GlobalSCAPE and TappIn, Inc.
San Antonio, Texas-based GlobalSCAPE, Inc. (NYSE Amex:GSB) is a leading provider of software and services that enable customers to access and share information quickly, securely, and reliably. Beginning in 1996 with its CuteFTP® product, GlobalSCAPE has been helping businesses and consumers—including 15,000 companies in more than 150 countries—facilitate cost-effective, secure information exchange. With its 2011 acquisition of Seattle-based TappIn, Inc., GlobalSCAPE also offers customers the ability to access and share documents, pictures, videos, and music—anytime, from anywhere—easily and securely, without the need for uploading, syncing, or paying for cloud storage. For more information, visit www.globalscape.com or follow the blog and Twitter updates.
About QNAP Systems, Inc.
QNAP Systems, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 2004 and is dedicated to bringing world class NAS storage, professional NVR video surveillance, and network video players to consumer, small/medium business, and entry level enterprise market segments. QNAP leverages not only hardware design but also a growing core competency in software engineering that is precisely focused on bringing to market products that offer the highest available performance coupled with outstanding reliability, scalability, and ease of installation and use. QNAP is a multi-national company with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, and subsidiary offices in China and the United States.
