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Skytap, Inc., a provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, has launched Skytap Groups, a new capability that enables companies to model their organizational structures quickly and easily within Skytap.

Skytap officials believe that this new capability will enable managers to create multiple user groups and assign role-based permissions to each user or user group and also gain the highest level of visibility and control over cloud operations.

"This release represents another milestone in our quest to make Skytap the most configurable virtual data center solution available," Brad Schick, vice president of engineering at Skytap said.

"Businesses want to manage their virtual data center environments and access policies based on how their teams are structured internally - by groups, projects, and roles. Skytap Groups enables customers to configure their Skytap environments for their unique needs, making our cloud an extension of their physical data centers," Schick said.

Skytap Groups enables businesses to model their organizational structure in the cloud. With this, businesses can now use one cloud platform for multiple user groups such as development, test, training, sales engineering and IT operations and assign role based permissions to govern cloud usage.

In addition, Skytap has also enhanced its user-based permission model to include more granular access limits with the addition of Account Roles and Project Roles. The Account Roles feature allows administrators to define specific access limits. The Project Roles feature enables owners of individual projects to further limit the access at a project level with roles specific to the project.