Mirian Lin on enterprise data protection and AI-ready storage

Enterprise data protection is becoming critical as South African organisations adopt AI, expand storage, and defend against ransomware. Mirian Lin, Account Manager at Synology, explains how the company is growing beyond its traditional NAS and SMB base to serve enterprise customers in South Africa. She discusses rising demand across mining, government, manufacturing, media, and education, where secure storage, backup, and data protection are central to digital transformation. The conversation examines data sovereignty, the balance between on-premises infrastructure and cloud services, and Synology’s goal of helping organisations maintain control over their information. Lin also outlines how secure, accessible, and well-managed data provides the foundation businesses need to adopt AI confidently. She highlights common backup mistakes and failing to test recovery plans. The discussion also covers immutable backups, ransomware resilience, enterprise storage, and Synology’s partner expansion across Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, and other South African markets. 0:00 Intro 0:24 Synology’s growth in South Africa 2:41 Moving from SMB to enterprise 3:27 Expanding the local partner channel 6:12 Data sovereignty and on-premises storage 8:48 Building AI-ready data infrastructure 10:45 Backup mistakes and strategies 13:33 Enterprise storage and cyber resilience Follow MyBroadband: X - https://twitter.com/mybroadband Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mybroadband Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mybroadband/ Website - https://mybroadband.co.za/news/ #DataProtection #CyberSecurity #Synology