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QNAP Expands QPKG for Turbo NAS Customers

QNAP Systems, Inc., has announced 4 new QPKG add-on applications and 3 updates to the original QPKGs for its NAS customers. The company states that these QPKGs give users a versatile NAS covering their need from web applications such as Gallery, to media servers and download utilities consisting of PS3 Media Server, pyLoad, and Transmission.

"These applications improve a QNAP NAS by enabling it not only as a pure storage server, but also a powerful yet energy-efficient downloading machine, multimedia sharing center to game consoles with transcoding capability, IP TV streaming, online photo sharing server, and an all purposed web server with advanced manageability.

"QNAP’s QPKG applications are free to download and convenient for end users to install. 'The QPKG platform is a great feature for users to explore unlimited possibilities of what a QNAP NAS is capable of,' said James Wu, Product Manager of QNAP. 'With over 20 QPKG apps now available to help create and manage databases, run websites, implement ecommerce, enjoy multimedia files, and much more”. QNAP strives to stay ahead of consumer needs by providing innovated add-ons to make today's data-heavy society a more user friendly world."