NaviSite said that it offered a customized service that included a combination of the cloud computing platform, AppStructure and dedicated managed services to meet the hybrid infrastructure requirement of ConnectEDU.

The service also included database administration and storage management services which eventually increased ConnectEDU’s performance by over 200%, added NaviSite.

Ed Carnes, senior manager of operations at ConnectEDU, said: NaviSite’s AppStructure provided us with a comprehensive, tightly integrated and highly adaptive virtualized environment that allowed us to easily scale up or down the computing resources to meet our changing infrastructure needs. The infrastructure design changes using AppStructure have reached and exceeded any performance expectations. We are extremely pleased with the outcome and look forward to working with NaviSite in the future.

Mark Clayman, senior vice president of hosting services at NaviSite, said: NaviSite’s latest offering – AppStructure – virtualizes the computing resources, offers the Web 2.0 tools for facilitating collaboration and integrates applications and information to create a seamless technology environment. We are excited that we were able to solve the challenges faced by ConnectEDU by providing them solutions tailored to their requirements.