Self-Service Private and Hybrid Clouds Come to the Enterprise

A few months ago when I interviewed Ross Tisnovsky, vice president of research for Everest Group, about cloud computing, he mentioned an interesting cloud concept he called operations-as-a-service. While software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service seem like no-brainers for many companies, the infrastructure-as-a-service layer of the cloud stack is more problematic, Tisnovsky told me. He said: