SoftNAS Cloud® Essentials supports Veeam Synthetic Full backups to S3 and provides files services for object storage, lowering the overall storage cost of "cool" secondary data for cloud backup storage, disaster recovery and tape-to-cloud archives -- all with dedicated and predictable high performance. KEY FEATURES INCLUDE: NFS, CIFS, AFP and iSCSI support with POSIX-compliant file access, 360-degree Encryption™ (at rest and in transit) with customer controlled encryption keys, Active Directory / LDAP integration, compression, deduplication, and thin-provisioning.