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Veeva Systems introduced Veeva Network today to over 700 industry leaders at the Veeva Global Customer Summit, being held this week in Philadelphia, PA. Veeva Network is a cloud-based customer interaction repository (CIR) that spans all sales and marketing channels, standard data formats supported by the leading multichannel marketing companies and complete service offerings from the life sciences industry’s leading business consultants.

Powered by the very latest in cloud computing and big data technology, Veeva Network provides the customer interaction data required to better analyze the return from multichannel investments. It’s already being characterized by pharmaceutical leaders as ‘revolutionary’ for its promise to easily capture, store and disseminate consistent data across life sciences companies and their outsourced partners and agencies…

Red Hat celebrated the 10th anniversary of its flagship Enterprise Linux product, but reaffirmed the decision to shift focus to cloud computing, pledging that open-source roots would be key to success in the new business venture.

The company plans to release Enterprise Linux 7 in in late 2013, but offered little during a Tuesday press conference on what to expect. What may play a large part in the new release is a focus on the cloud. For all intents and purposes, Red Hat believes Linux is in the past and the cloud is the future…

The UK is the number one market for the future growth of cloud computing services having lagged behind the US for many years, according to leading executives at Netsuite.

Speaking at the firm’s SuiteWorld event on Tuesday, Netsuite European managing director Paul Auffermann said the UK market had taken longer to reach mass adoption because most major vendors were reluctant to talk about cloud computing before they had systems in place to sell.

"If you look at the incumbents – Sage, Microsoft, SAP and Oracle – it was not a message they wanted to propagate because they didn’t have a solution they could put behind the message."

However, chief executive Zach Nelson added that because all vendors had become cloud enthusiasts over the past few years, UK businesses were now ready to move fast…

Amazon Web Services, or AWS, a cloud computing service that allows companies to borrow servers from Amazon.com instead of buying such expensive network equipment, has entered the Korean market.

Companies can save on computer facility investment through the service. For instance, an online game developer had to purchase high-priced equipment to service its games. Unable to forecast how many users it will have, the company just bought servers to accommodate hundreds of gamers.

AWS comes in handy for such companies. The service charges a company for usage by users who have played games. This is beneficial to companies because they need not make an excessive investment…

In this article, we’ll discuss the importance of leveraging cloud to greatly simplify and standardize your enterprise IT service offerings, and why it’s important to design from the beginning with this goal in mind.

When describing cloud computing benefits, we often talk about improved business agility and cost savings. One of the most profound and impactful ways to achieve these benefits across the enterprise comes from the pursuit of IT standardization and simplification, which is an important cloud computing objective that deserves more attention.

Think about the hundreds or thousands of different IT technologies and processes that exist within an enterprise IT organization today. If you inventory just one enterprise data center, you’ll see scores of hardware vendors, platforms, and operating systems assembled in unique combinations to support a sprawling assortment of heterogeneous apps.

The time and cost to manage this complexity is tremendous, and the chaos it creates places a significant burden on those charged with keeping IT running smoothly. In addition to support, there are redundant costs and waste associated with building solutions on top of this complex ecosystem including different overlapping tools, platforms, and processes. That’s one reason why enterprise IT budgets tend to follow an "80/20 rule", where 80% is consumed in maintaining the status quo, and just 20% goes to new projects that directly add business value.

UK-based IT services provider, Kelway has rolled out its cloud services portfolio, Kelway ServiceWorks, offering customers a compute platform, email and backup services.

An increasingly popular buzzword among business owners in Chicago, cloud computing is essentially describing a service, not a product. Similar to other professional service vendors, cloud computing companies are trusted partners who can be relied upon to manage the most sensitive and critical of your business operations.

“When we talk with Chicago business owners about cloud computing,” says Daniel Wang, Owner of Jexet Technologies a Chicago based cloud service provider, “There is this idea that you just set it up and it runs all by itself. But in reality, our cloud clients depend on our service department all the time for a wide variety of assistance, from simple email issues to complex software deployments.”…

GPU Technology Conference – NVIDIA today kicked off the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by unveiling its third industry-shaping innovation since its founding 19 years ago — technologies that accelerate cloud computing using the enormous computing capabilities of the GPU.

Five years in the making, NVIDIA’s cloud GPU technologies are based on the company’s new Kepler GPU architecture, designed for use in large-scale data centers. Its virtualization capabilities allow GPUs to be simultaneously shared by multiple users. Its ultra-fast streaming display capability eliminates lag, making a remote data center feel like it’s just next door. And its extreme energy efficiency and processing density lowers data center costs…

Knowledge Consulting Group (KCG), the leading provider of cybersecurity services to the federal government and commercial organizations, today announced that it has been accredited as a Third Party Assessment Organization (3PAO) under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). As a FedRAMP accredited 3PAO, KCG is authorized to perform security assessments for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) seeking FedRAMP provisional authorization.

"Cloud computing enables the federal government to realize cost savings and economies of scale but requires greater diligence by both the federal government and cloud providers in securing the critical information assets," said Dusty Wince, Chief Executive Officer of KCG…

Majority of SMBs say that disaster preparedness improved with server virtualisation

Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are increasingly adopting technologies like virtualisation, cloud computing and mobility for improved disaster preparedness, according to a new survey by Symantec.

The survey, which surveyed 2,053 organisations worldwide, found more than one-third of the respondents are now taking advantage of mobile devices for business use.

Symantec senior vice president of worldwide marketing for SMB and .Cloud Steve Cullen said SMBs cannot afford lengthy downtimes so the ability to quickly recover from a disaster is critical…