Oracle (News - Alert) has the world’s largest market share in database management software. Oracle attained this lofty position by producing and maintaining one of the most powerful, scalable, and versatile relational database management systems (RDBMS) in existence.

Recently, NaviSite (News - Alert), Inc., a premier provider of complex hosting, application management and managed cloud services for the enterprise market, has begun to use a combination of Oracle's Sun servers and Oracle software to run its mission-critical systems.

Boasting more than 1,500 customers in 10 datacenters across the US and UK, NaviSite wanted to expand its virtualization platform in order to address the burgeoning infrastructure demands of its customers. The company also wanted to deliver high quality performance and availability.

NaviSite deploys a combination of Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise servers running Oracle Solaris and Oracle's Sun Fire x86 clustered systems   running Oracle Enterprise Linux, along with Oracle software, including Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters as its integrated and optimized technology platform. By doing so, NaviSite provides its global customers with highly reliable, scalable and cost-effective solutions.

The company uses Sun SPARC Enterprise servers for applications that demand a high-level of performance, reliability and security. Perfect for virtualized application    environments, Oracle's Sun x86 blade servers deliver excellent performance and superior energy efficiency. In addition, they also reduce datacenter costs and complexity.

According to a release, NaviSite also runs many of its internal systems, including Oracle E-Business Suite Financials and customer portal, on the same Oracle platform.

Thanks to Oracle, NaviSite has improved the flexibility of its service offerings, decreased the time to provision the computing platform for managed applications and gained the ability to scale application environments as business grows.

NaviSite's managed application services aids customers to reduce costs while delivering high service levels. The company claims that typically, customers benefit from at least a 20 percent cost reduction, higher application availability and 20 percent better application performance all while lowering IT costs when compared to managing their applications internally or outsourcing to another provider.