Synology continues to impress in the small business space, but it honestly has value in larger organizations where simplicity and value are valued. Simply, Synology is an on-premise storage solution that can be used in many ways. In today’s modern era where our processes and applications increasingly scale in the cloud, and on-premise infrastructure has become more and more costly and challenging. The disaster recovery strategies to support these deployment realities has become of bit of a gut punch in the cloud to cloud backup space. Enter Synology Active Backup. It has a suite of backup connectors, and ultimately creates the reverse topology of what we used to do before cloud; where we sent our backups off-site across the internet or WAN links, where their recovery in the event of a physical catastrophe were possible. This has made our premise networks and data-centers valuable candidates for being our cloud off-site backup target. And with low-cost resilient storage arrays like Synology, backing up Office365 and AWS hosted applications is possible, and offers incredible peace of mind for astonishing budget comparatives. When considering the total cost of ownership of your entire infrastructure strategy, an on-premise disaster recovery plan may be the savings to inspire your decisions.