Modern businesses face the challenge of dramatic growth of digital data. Deploying a reliable, affordable and expandable storage center to securely store, share, and back up business digital assets has become an important task for the IT administrators. QNAP Turbo NAS provides an efficient and flexible network attached storage solution with iSCSI services, cross-platform data sharing, and rich business applications. With VMware Ready and Citrix Ready verifications, and proven compatibility with Microsoft Hyper-V environment, the Turbo NAS is an ideal shared storage solution in the virtualized and clustered environment.The Turbo NAS offers the IT administrator flexible server backup solutions, including encrypted remote replication, Real-time Remote Replication (RTRR), and cloud-based storage backup. Windows users and Mac users can use QNAP NetBak Replicator utility and Time Machine respectively to back up data to the Turbo NAS. Furthermore, the Turbo NAS also supports third party backup software such as Veeam Backup and Replication and Acronis True Image.The Turbo NAS can be utilized as the network shared storage of VMware, Citrix virtualization environments and Windows clustered servers. Comparing with traditional SAN (Storage Area Network), the Turbo NAS is a competitive alternative with much lower setup and maintenance costs in an IP SAN.