Case Study: Aerial Applications achieves 400% processing boost and 75% faster provisioning with Navisite’s Azure Migration and Management Services

Aerial Applications Ascends to Greater Success with Navisite’s Azure Migration and Management Services

Aerial Applications is a drone-based GIS mapping and photogrammetry company that helps disaster-response agencies, utilities and telecoms rapidly survey and model large areas of infrastructure. As demand grew, their Jacksonville data center and mobile deployments—and early tests on Google and AWS—couldn’t deliver the bandwidth, GPU capacity, throughput or support SLAs needed to process massive datasets (the team targets ~400 sq. miles/day), leaving the CTO spending excessive time managing hardware instead of scaling the business.

Navisite, an Azure Expert MSP, ran a proof-of-concept, migrated Windows and Linux workloads to Azure, built resilient networking, and now manages their environment. The move delivered near-instant scalability, a 400% boost in GPU processing capacity, a 75% reduction in provisioning time, and high-throughput transfers for terabytes of data—enabling richer, faster analysis, reliable demos at scale, and better outcomes for Aerial’s customers, backed by personalized support.

Aerial Applications

Nathan Sullivan

Chief Technology Officer