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.

Data Center Services

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.

Download the Why NITC page from the NITC Service Catalog.

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