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Thecus was founded in 2004 and released their first SMB NAS, the N4100, at CeBIT 2005 in Hannover, Germany. Thecus is a relative newcomer, having released only about two dozen NAS and related devices.
In 2006, Thecus released the World's first 5 bay NAS.
Thecus is an Intel Storage Community Member and is counted among Intel's 20 largest worldwide strategic partners, which also includes Cisco, IBM, HP, EMC, Hitachi, and Sony. They operate from four locations worldwide, including their headquarters in Taipei and three branches in the United States, the Netherlands, and China.
Thecus had their Initial public offering on November 26, 2010 with a net revenue of $19.5 million in 2011 and current assets valued at $9.1 million.
In September 2014, Thecus launched the World's first Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials NAS product line.
In March 2015, the 5-bay N5810PRO NAS was launched. Containing a Built-in Mini-UPS, as a contingency power supply.
In December 2015, their latest operating system, the ThecusOS 7.0 was launched.
In May 2016, Thecus was formally acquired by Ennoconn Corporation and thus became part of the Foxconn IPC Technology group.
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In December 2016, they added (Scale out) functionality to ThecusOS 7.0, enabling storage scalability without limit.
In March 2017, Thecus added Window Storage Server 2016 to their Windows rackmount NAS product line.
In March 2017, Thecus announced their new 4-bay N4910U series, 1U rackmount architecture.
In March 2017, Thecus unveiled their new budget-friendly 2-bay NAS, the N2350.
In late 2019 they stopped shipping to the United States. By the second quarter of 2020 Thecus products in the US not available. Inquiry to the sales department have gone unanswered.
From Wikipedia’s article on Thecus, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
