An interview from the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas with Nick Warburton at the Symply Booth. Symply designs and manufactures professional storage solutions spanning disk, tape, cloud, and connectivity. With the industry’s broadest LTO portfolio, high-performance Thunderbolt and NVMe storage, enterprise object storage, NEBULA cloud, and the CENTARA orchestration platform, Symply serves creative, enterprise, and scientific markets worldwide.

Storage costs are rising. Energy bills are climbing. Ransomware attacks are accelerating. At NAB Show 2026, Symply responded with three launches that address these challenges head-on:

CENTARA — an enterprise storage orchestration platform that unifies on-prem and cloud workflows, enabling peer-to-peer file sharing without exposing data to intermediary cloud platforms. Virtual desktop drives, hybrid sync, accelerated encrypted transfers up to 10 Gbps, and centralized management across providers. Three tiers from $25/user/month.

Next-gen SymplyPRO and SymplyDIT — World’s first LTO family with quad-interfaces offering Thunderbolt 5, USB4, SAS, and OCuLink in a single product. OCuLink brings high-speed, low-latency connectivity to any desktop PC via an inexpensive PCIe riser card — no Thunderbolt required. Single or dual drive, desktop or rackmount, LTO-7 through LTO-10 (up to 40TB native per cartridge). New SymplyDIT models feature dual TriMode 2.5” bays accepting NVMe, SAS, or SATA devices up to 128TB, creating a combined ingest and archive workstation that provides versatility for the workflows of today.

SPARK ONE — Repurpose. Don’t Replace. — a portable Thunderbolt 5/USB4 NVMe enclosure with a swappable drive tray accepting M.2 and 2.5” NVMe devices from 2TB to 128TB. Repurpose drives you already own. OCuLink port included. Intelligent adaptive cooling, rugged all-metal design, 145mm × 105mm × 38mm, 545g (5.7in × 4.1 × 1.5, 1.2lbs), 5-year warranty.

The announcements mark Symply’s 10th anniversary — a decade of building storage grounded in engineering quality, sustainability, and the belief that the right technology should solve problems, not create new ones.

Keith Warburton, CEO at Symply: “Ten years ago Symply walked into our first NAB with a simple belief: storage should solve problems, not create new ones. That hasn’t changed — but the world around us has. CENTARA lets organizations share and move data without losing control of it. Our quad-interface LTO puts ingest and archive in one device, because the smartest thing you can do with expensive primary storage is stop filling it with data that belongs on tape. And SPARK ONE puts drives you already own back to work. Practical engineering that respects your budget, your data, and your time — that’s what Symply does.”

For more information please visit: www.GoSymply.com