Office of the Chief Information Officer

United States Department of Agriculture

Data Center Services

NITC Enterprise Solutions

The NITC Enterprise Solutions are developed utilizing government and industry standards and best practices. Our Level IV data center facilities utilize state-of-the-art, enterprise class infrastructure technologies to deliver optimal yet cost-effective solutions.

NITC has a diverse and dedicated staff of Information Technology professionals who are proficient in systems architecture and integration, infrastructure management and operation, and disaster recovery. They work with customers to deliver secure and highly available solutions. The NITC secure IT infrastructure consists of virtualized mainframe and midrange platforms as well as virtualized network and storage infrastructure.

The systems and applications managed by NITC are national in scope, mission critical, and essential for the operations of the United States government.

  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): The NITC Infrastructure as a Service provides standard virtualized operating platforms to securely host customer applications. NITC uses server virtualization technologies, strict standards, and economies of scale to enable rapid delivery of cost-effective, fully managed operating platforms with expanded inheritable security controls. NITC also offers three tiers of IaaS storage that are available to customers on demand.
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS): The NITC Platform as a Service builds on the IaaS to provide customers with environments where they can develop, test and deploy customer-created or acquired applications. Currently, NITC offers various PaaS services including database, web portal, web server etc. The PaaS services include software license management and essential professional services for the products included in the service.
  • Managed Hosting: For extremely large or unique applications that require dedicated hardware, NITC will manage customer provided servers up through the operating system (OS) in a secure operating environment including systems installation, engineering, administration, and support.
  • Professional Services: NITC can provide the professional services required for integrating and administering enterprise-class business applications and databases, project management, and planning for technology advancements and disaster recovery.

Contact Us

NITCServiceDesk@ocio.usda.gov
888-USE-NITC or 816-926-6660