NaviSite Developing New Managed Hosting Service and Flexibility

📅 June 1, 2001 - NaviSite Inc. (navisite.com 👉 Total Reviews: 1
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NaviSite's Instant Capacity and Instant Availability services will provide customers with the ability to provision servers on-demand, allowing them to immediately respond to surges in Internet traffic without the need for extensive prior capacity planning. These offerings will allow companies to reduce capital expenditures by removing the need to build infrastructure for peak demand, and can minimize or eliminate disruptions to web operations when server problems occur.
"Enterprise customers faced with planning for unanticipated fluctuations in traffic are looking for more flexible managed service offerings that provide the ability to increase capacity on demand," says Ted Chamberlin, senior analyst at Gartner. "NaviSite's Instant Capacity and Instant Availability services are intended to specifically address this challenge by allowing customers to handle variations in traffic through near-instant provisioning of web servers. This can virtually eliminate concerns regarding capacity and site availability."
"We?re committed to developing innovative ways to better service our customers. These services will provide customers with a cost effective alternative to up-front costs for anticipating peak demand," says NaviSite's CEO Joel Rosen. "In addition to the obvious customer benefits, the automatic provisioning of servers will also mean faster recovery times for NaviSite, and therefore will be an important step toward enhancing our operational metrics, including up-time and mean time to repair."
According to NaviSite, enterprise customers with e-commerce sites want to ensure they maintain enough capacity to accommodate fluctuations in customer traffic, particularly around peak selling times, holidays and marketing promotions. NaviSite's Instant Capacity service is intended to save customers both time and money by allowing them to set specific thresholds, such as for site traffic or web server CPU utilization, that determine when to trigger the automatic provisioning of additional capacity.
NaviSite says that another significant concern regarding a company's web operations is how much redundancy to allocate to ensure site availability if server outages occur. NaviSite's Instant Availability service is designed to automatically detect certain hardware and software failures in web servers, and quickly bring new servers online to replace the component causing the outage.
A formal beta program for Instant Capacity and Instant Availability is planned for Summer 2001.