NaviSite, a provider of enterprise-grade cloud hosting and application management services, has enhanced its desktop-as-a-service offering to accommodate businesses that don’t have the budget for a dedicated environment.

With the addition of remote desktop services and a remote application delivery tool, the platform allows customers to adopt multi-tenancy without compromising on performance or security. Admins can set access controls at the desktop level, or enforce corporate policy at the application layer to simplify provisioning. NaviSite says that this functionality enables organizations to meet the needs of remote and mobile workers that require rapid access to cloud resources.

Other selling points of the the DaaS solution include business hour support, off-hour critical support, and a pay as you go model that charges for the concurrent sessions consumed rather than the number of users in a deployment.

Chris Patterson, the company’s vice president of product management, commented, “NaviSite understands that users have different needs and requirements, which requires different access to applications. For this reason we wanted to deliver a DaaS solution that was easy to manage, allowing users to work in environments that could be updated on demand with minimal time required by the IT department.”

This week’s update comes on the heels of NaviCloud Director, a vCloud Direction-based IaaS service designed to “advanced applications.” The newly launched solution offers tight VMware integration, compatibility with other NaviCloud solutions, and flexible network configurations that aim to simplify regulatory compliance.

NaviSite CTO David Grimes said that the solution addresses enterprise adoption of hybrid cloud solutions, a growing trend that has also caught the attention of Red Hat. The open source titan recently unveiled three JBoss-based PaaS services that simplify integration between cloud apps and back-office processes.