Earlier this week I had the opportunity to speak to OpSource CEO Treb Ryan about OpSource Cloud, the company’s headlong thrust into the enterprise cloud computing space long-dominated by…well, no one to this point.  Until now, OpSource has focused primarily on being a leading delivery platform for SaaS businesses, providing infrastructure, operations, and billing services to companies that, for all intents and purposes, already live in “the cloud.”  OpSource Cloud sets cross hairs on the enterprise (read: corporate) market, which for legitimate reasons has been largely apprehensive about shifting IT assets to the public cloud.

When I first read the OpSource Cloud announcement, I can’t say that the concept moved me to want to shout it from the rooftops; part of the reason is that I spent the first 10 years of my career managing IT infrastructure and I lost my passion for it long ago.  Another reason is that my company, Delivered Innovation, lives in a different part of the cloud “stack” and we leave the management of platforms and databases to our partners such as salesforce.com.  But I’ve followed Treb for the past few years, and I knew that someone with his vision had a grander plan than just building a better Amazon EC2.

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