Application-Optimized NaviCloud Platform Allows Applications to Run Across Multiple Data Centers

Application optimization is at the core of NaviCloud. Unlike traditional in-house IT organizations, which must continue to support architectures for a wide range of legacy applications, NaviSite has been able to use best-of-breed hardware and software components for its state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure. The result is both a flexible architecture that facilitates the rapid on-boarding of customer applications, and an agile platform that ensures reliability and accommodates dynamic application requirements.

Scalability

The NaviCloud platform allows applications to run across multiple data centers. The distributed footprint ensures that the application and the associated data are delivered efficiently to a dispersed user base. NaviCloud also adapts to changing application requirements. When applications need more servers or additional memory, NaviCloud scales automatically to ensure that mission-critical applications have the resources they require – when they require them.

Management automation is the key to NaviCloud’s ability to scale. NaviCloud monitors and application events, and ties them to specific pre-defined workflows. When, for instance, an application requires more memory, the event triggers an automatic workflow that makes the additional resources available to the application. NaviCloud creates real-time, seamless links between the application, the cloud infrastructure, and the provisioning engine.

High Availability

NaviCloud has been built to support mission-critical applications. It has been designed for high availability. The Cisco UCS has two fabric interconnects configured as cluster peers, allowing both an active and standby instance of the UCS manager to run on the fabric interconnects. If the primary instance fails, the standby instance immediately assumes the role of primary. In addition, the N+1 server architecture ensures hardware availability.

Reliability

Disaster recovery is integral to NaviCloud. With a state of the art operations center and a highly-resilient service delivery infrastructure spanning multiple data centers, NaviCloud minimizes the risk of application downtime.

Security

NaviCloud employs a comprehensive approach to ensuring and enforcing the security, privacy, and integrity of enterprise applications and data. NaviCloud data centers are compliant with SSAE-16 requirements for physical and logical security. In addition, NaviCloud provides all of the security measures associated with traditional hosting environments, including:

IT is always in control of the applications running on the NaviCloud Platform through NaviSite’s secure and stateful Web-based self-service cloud Management Console called AppCenter –