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Taipei, Taiwan, January 15, 2013 – QNAP, Inc. is proud to announce that its flagship NAS TS-EC1279U-RP has been honored the 2013 Technology of the Year Award from InfoWorld.com, one of USA's most visited and popular tech media websites.

The reviewer, Paul Venezia, pointed out that the TS-EC1279U-RP "boasts dual 10G Ethernet interfaces alongside 1G copper interfaces, redundant power supplies, and 36TB raw capacity with 3TB SATA drives". He also concluded that "For the small-to-medium workload, that's plenty of bang for a street price under $5K (without disk)."

"We are proud to receive this award from InfoWorld.com, and feel excited about the honor as it represents a solid endorsement on QNAP products' quality and performance," noted Ivan Hsu, Product Marketing Director of QNAP, Inc. "QNAP takes pride to provide the best and most reliable network storage solutions to the worldwide market. We are confident that the TS-EC1279U-RP delivers outstanding performance to SMBs optimizing business applications in file sharing, backup and storage virtualization as this award recognizes."

The TS-EC1279U-RP is a full-scale business class network-attached storage which incorporates an Quad-core Intel^® Xeon™ E3-1225 3.1GHz Processor, 4 GB DDR3 ECC RAM (expandable RAM, up to 8GB), and can house up to twelve hot-swappable and lockable 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch SATA hard drives, or SSD. The TS-EC1279U-RP features 10GbE ready providing over 2,000 MB/s and 200,000 IOPS, and delivers ultra-high performance suitable for high-end SMBs and data center environments demanding efficient and large capacity storages and continuous up-time for mission critical applications.

The TS-EC1279U-RP features versatile applications for file storing, sharing, backup and virtualization solutions, paired with top-notch hardware specifications. It supports many critical business functions, including Windows AD/LDAP Directory Service, Windows ACL, iSCSI/IP-SAN and NAS unified storage solution, encrypted remote replication, Real-Time Remote Replication (RTRR), cloud storage backup, and more.