Earlier this week, NaviSite joined the multitude of data center service providers that offer cloud-based IT services. The Andover, Mass.-based company’s new cloud computing services include infrastructure, applications and messaging for North American customers.
As with most public-cloud providers, NaviSite’s cloud customers can either pay on a per-usage basis or commit to using a certain amount of compute power at a time. The second option also includes the ability to “burst,” or scale the capacity up or down, based on need. The provider determines the base level a customer commits to, using statistics of their usage of the cloud over the first 90 days.
“Today marks the first phase of our application-focused, cloud-based enterprise services strategy and is rooted in the belief that enterprise cloud services require a deep knowledge and understanding of the complexities of managing and running enterprise business applications,” NaviSite President Brooks Borchering said in a statement.
The provider is going after mid-market and enterprise-level customers, who range in size from $250 million to $2 billion, said Claudine Bianchi, NaviSite’s Chief Marketing Officer. The offering’s availability is currently limited and the company expects to announce full general availability in June.
Bianchi said infrastructure that supports NaviCloud is currently housed in three data centers, located in Andover, San Jose, Calif., and London. The first customers – of whom there are currently about 12 – have been deployed in the Andover and San Jose facilities.
The NaviCloud is powered by Cisco’s Unified Computing System compute and network hardware, IBM storage and VMware hypervisor technology.
This marks the most recent step in NaviSite’s adjustment of its business strategy by shifting focus away from providing pure colocation services (the company has been selling off its colocation data centers) and concentrating more on hosting, managed services and cloud.
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