NaviSite to Launch Cloud Service in the next Quarter
NaviSite, a well known provider of managed hosting and application service solutions has recently announced the launch of the NaviCloud in the coming quarter. NaviCloud is the company’s own brand of managed cloud services. NaviSite has already introduced the NaviCloud platform in October of last year but the company plans to market it only this year. It is going to be made available to global clients.
NaviCloud is NaviSite’s proprietary on-demand utility platform. It is going to be delivered to client businesses in the form of a scalable solution that adopts the pay-per-use service. The plan caters to large enterprises and SMBs that require production-level infrastructure such as compute, storage, networking and bandwidth to be placed in the cloud. This will also cover the same level of management, uptime, redundancy, disaster recovery PCI compliance, security and network management that is typical of other NaviSite service offerings.
The company has forged a partnership with Cisco for the launch of NaviCloud on the former’s UCS platform. The NaviCloud platform is also going to use virtualization technology by VMware, XIB by IBM for storage and the Nehalem series of processors by Intel.
NaviSite operates and manages 15 data centers. Many of these facilities are located across the UK and the US where more than 1500 clients are served.
The NaviCloud offering is going to be mapped out based on the requirements of large enterprises, says Sumeet Sabharwal, managing director and CEO of NaviSite India.
For clients in India, the NaviCloud will still be hosted out of three data centers in the US and the UK. The company does not plan to host the platform in a data center in India because the service is going to cater to companies looking to expand globally.
