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. ..

Infratel, a provider of call center products and general telephony services for the small and midsize business, announced the market launch of a cloud–based service that is engineered to make it easy and inexpensive for midmarket businesses to employ advanced voice solutions.

"Cloud computing has created an amazing opportunity for SMBs to immediately level the playing field when it comes to accessing phone systems equivalent to the ones used by their larger competitors," said Jim Southwell, general manager of Infratel’s North American operations. "We’re currently selecting top Web hosting firms to partner with us in distributing the service and hope to make a major impact in the market during 2012."..

Parallels, a provider of virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing, stated that U.K. cloud services provider Cobweb is now one of the fastest growing Hosted Exchange providers on its platform.

According to Parallels, its Automation for Cloud Infrastructure is a turnkey, scalable cloud computing solution that makes it easier than ever for service providers to profitably deliver cloud computing services to SMBs. The infrastructure comes packed with virtualization, automation, billing, and customer self-service capabilities…