NaviSite Launches NaviCloud Director Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Platform

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NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company, today announced thelaunch of NaviCloud Director — a VMware vCloud(R) Powered IaaSplatform that uses VMware vCloud Director(R) 5.1, and is designed toprovide cloud-based businesses a more flexible, customizable,enterprise class, production-oriented hybrid cloud environment.

NaviCloud Director further enhances NaviSite’s public cloud portfolioby offering businesses an IaaS platform designed for trulyvirtualized applications. To build the new platform, NaviSite tookinto account its extensive experience in cloud services in additionto industry needs, upcoming trends and feedback from its customersand partners…

NaviCloud Director will give customers access to VMware APIs anddeveloper community. In addition, customers will be able to customizetheir networking architecture to map specifically to their technologyphilosophy. Advanced users, such as those with in-house vCloudDirector experience, will have the ability to access the nativevCloud Director user interface for further user flexibility.Additional key features include:

–Easy access through AppCenter, vCloud Director, and APIs
–Mix & match billing models for fixed costs or pay as you go
–Flexible network architectures allowing for optimal application
configuration or regulatory compliance
–Ability to access and integrate with other NaviCloud and NaviSite
Managed Services to accommodate complex applications and business
needs

"VMware has partnered with NaviSite to integrate NaviCloud solutions onvCloud Director(R)," said Geoff Waters, senior director, CloudService Provider Programs, VMware. "We are proud to partner withNaviSite as they continue to deliver innovative cloud solutions forits enterprise customers, powered by vCloud Director."

"NaviSite has always designed its solutions to meet customer needs,and introducing NaviCloud in 2010 was the first step to taking ourcustomers to the cloud," said David Grimes, Chief Technology Officer,NaviSite. "Today we recognize that customers are more savvy aboutcloud computing, so we’re excited to offer them a solution that willgive them a truly user-defined cloud environment, but with thesupport of NaviSite’s Army of Experts should they need it."

For more information about NaviSite and its NaviCloud Directorsolution, visit www.navisite.com.