NaviSite Announces Alliance With Intel
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NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), a leading provider of application
solutions and managed services, announced today an alliance with Intel
Corporation to offer a suite of managed services sold through Intel’s
value added reseller (VAR) community. The Hosting Service offered
through Intel will provide resellers with a comprehensive menu of
services to market under their own brands and satisfy the growing demand
for such services in the small and medium business (SMB) segment. In
addition, NaviSite will assist the resellers in making the business
transition to becoming managed service providers by providing the
necessary delivery, technical, marketing, and sales support.
The portfolio of reseller services provided by NaviSite includes hosted
email services with filtering and archiving, hosted collaboration suite
for online information-sharing, online backup, and remote monitoring and
management services for all IT assets, including client servers and
network devices. Not only will the program allow resellers the
flexibility to select the right service combination to meet their
customers’ needs, they will also have the
added benefit of dealing with a single provider in NaviSite, thus
avoiding compatibility and resolution issues for their customers.
"We are very excited about our alliance with
Intel,” said Arthur Becker, Chief Executive
Officer at NaviSite. "The Hosting Service
offered thorough Intel and enabled by NaviSite will tap into Intel’s
extensive VAR network to offer the broad suite of managed services
offered by NaviSite—extending and deepening
the relationship of the VAR to its customer from that of a traditional
break/fix vendor to that of an ongoing service provider.”
NaviSite was tapped by Intel to enable its managed service offering,
based on NaviSite’s deep expertise and
capabilities in providing managed services and application solutions to
the SMB and Mid-Market companies for more than 11 years through its
network of 18 state-of-the-art data centers in the U.S. and the U.K.,
along with innovative technologies and a suite of services specifically
designed to serve this market segment.
For resellers who have previously been unable to tap into this
fast-growing market, this program presents a unique opportunity to
extend their business into managed services. "Resellers
have been asking us for a firm blueprint to enter the services area,”
said Steve Dallman, Vice President of Intel’s
Sales and Marketing Group and General Manager of Intel’s
Worldwide Reseller Channel Organization. "They
want to minimize the unknowns, lessen the upfront investment and lower
the risks. We have listened to our channel partners and are empowering
our channel partners to become solution providers,”
he said.
The market for managed services among SMBs represents the largest area
of growth in this segment. Tier 1 Research1,
the independent research and consulting firm covering public and private
companies within the IT industry, reports that managed hosting remains
the largest segment within this sector and will continue to grow at a
rate of 24 percent. According to Tier 1, SMBs and Mid-Market enterprises
are fueling this growth in hosting services.
About NaviSite
NaviSite is a leading provider of application solutions and hosting
services. More than 1,500 customers depend on NaviSite for application
development, implementation and management on its web infrastructure
platforms in 18 state-of-the-art data centers supported by more than 700
professionals. NaviSite provides customized and scalable solutions
leveraging its broad range of application development capabilities,
packaged software implementation expertise, deep portfolio of best in
class technologies and a full suite of web-hosting and internet
infrastructure options. For more information, please visit www.navisite.com.
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1 Source: Tier-1 Research 2008
