Searchlight Solutions Ltd. announced that its subsidiary Linux Labs International Inc. has upgraded its proprietary NimbusOS for use as the Operating System for its High Performance Cloud Computing (“HPC2”) service.

Linux Labs International is a hybrid engineering firm that specializes in technologies that optimize high performance supercomputing. Linux Labs designs and builds high-performance supercomputers utilizing their proprietary NimbusOS…

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced it will soon be launching a free, publicly accessible registry that documents the security controls provided by various cloud computing offerings. 

The new initiative, called the CSA Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), is intended to encourage transparency of security practices within cloud providers. The  registry will help users assess the security of cloud providers they currently use or are considering contracting with, CSA says.  CSA STAR will be online in Q4 of 2011…

Savtira Corp., an e-commerce servicing firm currently based in Ybor City, announced this week that it plans to hire “at least” 265 new employees over the next 18 months.

The company seeks writers, designers, engineers and other professionals to help it expand its cloud computing offerings. The new positions will pay an average wage of $81,448, a statement from Savtira says…

Hotlink Corporation emerged from two-and-a-half-years underground the other day clutching a check for $10 million from a couple of VCs in one hand and a "super-hypervisor" in the other.

The start-up’s got a way to make VMware’s vCenter manager natively support Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Citrix’s XenServer and Red Hat’s KVM hypervisors all at the same time without vCenter even knowing those outlanders aren’t its own ESXi…

Some of the benefits of cloud computing have been highlighted by an industry expert, who noted that the biggest positive is that business do not have to set the system up themselves.

Stuart Hibbert, chief executive of icomplete.com – a service that brings big business resources to smaller enterprises that may not have been able to do so because of price or experience restrictions – explained that firms do not even have to own their own servers…

The shift towards Cloud Computing will lead to half of all organisations needing to revise their privacy policies by the end of 2012, according to research firm Gartner.  

But for the hard pressed ICT professional or privacy officer, the challenge is going to be how to balance the legitimate concerns and requirements around security and privacy due to their high profile, with not getting carried away unnecessarily and neglecting other responsibilities. ..