NaviCloud Session at Cloud Expo

Cloud Computing Expo - NaviSite, a leading provider of cloud-enabled enterprise hosting and application services, announced its next-generation cloud-computing platform.

NaviSite Managed Cloud Services (NaviCloud), based on VMware vSphere 4 and VMware vCloud and the Cisco Unified Computing System, is an innovative, enterprise-class infrastructure platform that provides high-performance, scalable, on-demand, usage-billed IT infrastructure.

Targeted at enterprise IT-hosting and application-service needs, NaviCloud is a flexible and customizable platform that adapts to changing customer requirements, enabling businesses to use resources more efficiently, while reducing capital and operating costs.

NaviSite's virtualized infrastructure is deployed as multiple highly-secure infrastructure clouds, hosted in NaviSite's SAS 70 Type II-certified data centers in the U.S. and the U.K.

These cloud complexes allow customers to buy compute, memory and storage from the underlying resource pool and configure them for use in either self-managed or fully-managed modes. In self-managed mode, customers can create virtual machines (VMs) and configure them with a choice of operating systems and other software.

In managed mode, customers can select a range of monitors to be applied to VMs, groups of VMs and environments that then feed into NaviSite's system-wide monitoring and management systems. Functional management of the resources and VMs is provided by the NaviCloud customer portal, which has been designed by NaviSite to facilitate the different use modes, and to provide full transparency for resources, trending and service levels.

"VMware vSphere(TM) 4 and the VMware vCloud(TM) initiative transform IT infrastructure, enabling service providers to offer IT as dynamic services to customers who can increase or decrease compute capacity on demand to save time and money," said William Shelton, Senior Director of Product Management, VMware. "NaviSite's new Managed Cloud Services offering delivers on this promise and will enable customers to focus less on infrastructure maintenance and more on initiatives that help grow their businesses."