Another gear

Two fresh moves at Datum Corp., an IT services firm with a multifaceted business model, illustrate how fast the company has recently expanded — and the pace of growth to come.

One move is more of a prediction: Datum CEO Tom Frost says the firm aims to hire a full-time, in-house training coordinator by early 2015.

Based out of an office in a Lakewood Ranch corporate park, Datum has about 80 employees, up from 60 in the middle of 2013, and has multiple openings in several departments. The company utilizes a technology as a service model, where it does everything from IT to software consulting for a monthly fee. Datum lays cable and fiber optic lines for clients, and it also develops and installs point-of-sale systems. The firm, with clients that include First Watch, Beef 'O' Brady's and Roy's Hawaiian Fusion, performs IT services in nearly 3,500 client locations that support more than 145,000 employees.