Rapid Provisioning
The NITC Cloud services offer virtualized instances of software, servers and storage that can be deployed for the customers within a very short period of time. In addition, virtualized environment supports rapid elasticity.

Predictable Cost Model
NITC Cloud service helps customers eliminate capitalexpenditure and improve operating efficiencies by using a multitenant hosting environment. Various standard and premium options and templates are offered to meet unique customer demand.

Customer Service
NITC offers dedicated account teams and 24x7 monitoring and expert technical support to ensure customers can focus on their core business without worrying about IT infrastructure.

NITC Cloud Services

NITC offers a broad range of Cloud services using virtualized, multi-tenant operating environments to offer several Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) services. NITC Cloud services offers:

• Rapid elasticity
• Scalable, pay-as-you-go pricing
• Monthly billing and predictable cost
• Periodic hardware refresh
• 99.99% availability
• Independent audits for OIG, A-123 and inheritable controls

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): NITC IaaS enables customers to select from secure, standardized Operating System images that are configured to meet actual processing requirements. Each IaaS offering is fully managed and maintained by NITC. Control over specific aspects of a customer’s environment can be provided for development and testing of applications.

Current IaaS Offerings

• Windows ™
• Linux ™
• AIXTM
• Network
• Tiered Storage
• Web Accelerator
• SolarisTM

Platform as a Service (PaaS): NITC PaaS offerings build upon IaaS offerings to provide customers with robust, fully managed platform solutions that include respective software licensing. By utilizing cost-effective platform solutions that are configured and licensed to meet actual application processing requirements, customers need only focus on the development and deployment of their business applications.

Current PaaS Offerings

• WebSphere ™
• WebSphere Portal™
• JBoss™
• JBoss PortalTM
• DrupalTM
• Oracle WCMTM
• AlfrescoTM
• Google™ Web Search
• SQL Server™
• Oracle™
• MySQL™
• Web Content Management
• Document Management

Future PaaS Offerings

• DB2™
• Cognos™ BI
• ESRI™ GIS
• Enterprise Service Bus

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

Download the Why NITC page from the NITC Service Catalog.

 
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Last Modified: 04/03/2012