Bio / Lifestream / Archive
Charles Babcock
Upcoming Events
Live Events
- I Can See Clearly Now - E2 Conference Boston
- Get practical strategies to build a solid plan for profitability and success - Mobile Commerce World - Mobile Commerce World
- Learn how to enage customers through mobility - Mobile Commerce World - Mobile Commerce World
- Learn how to best integrate mobile commerce with your current systems -- Mobile Commerce World - Mobile Commerce World
- How to Choose a SaaS Vendor - E2 Conference Boston
This Week's Issue
Free Print Subscription
SubscribeSpecial Issue
Current Government Issue
In this issue:
Subscribe Now
- The Government CIO 25: These influential and accomplished government IT leaders are finding ways to be cost efficient and still innovate.
- Rethink Video Surveillance: It's not just about networked cameras anymore. New technology provides analytics, automation, facial recognition, real-time alerts and situational-awareness capabilities.
- Read the Current Issue
Featured Whitepapers
Featured Reports
VMware Reveals Hybrid Cloud Details
May 21, 2013
VMware says its hybrid cloud service will offer a "seamless extension" of customers' virtualized on-premises data centers. In a surprise, VMware undercuts Google on price.
Terremark's VMware Cloud Software Story: It's Complicated
May 21, 2013
Terremark CTO John Considine says VMware "is a great partner of ours." But Terremark built its own cloud provisioning software to run its operation.
Rackspace Woos Developers, Fights Sagging Revenue
May 21, 2013
Rackspace adds support for SDKs and APIs to its OpenStack Cloud, hoping to encourage developers to use its service.
Google Compute Engine: Too Little, Too Late?
May 21, 2013
Google must convince enterprise IT managers that its infrastructure-as-a-service offering is a good fit. I am doubtful that Google is ready.
VMware Hybrid Cloud Plans: Time For Amazon Answer
May 20, 2013
VMware doesn't like the degree to which customers and partners have been implementing cloud using its products, and it's taking matters into its own hands. Will it truly compete with Amazon?
Tale Of 2 ServiceNow Users: Problem Solvers
May 17, 2013
ServiceNow users share their experience with the SaaS offering. One uses IT service management for compliance and IT automation; the other has moved beyond IT into business services.
ServiceNow Revamp Stars Cloud Provisioning
May 15, 2013
Cloud Provisioning acts as a virtual machine orchestrator for VMware and Amazon Web Services cloud environments.
Amazon To Cloud Rivals: Try To Catch Us
May 14, 2013
Amazon Web Services VP Adam Selipsky sits down to talk about Amazon.com's DNA and its low-margin approach to cloud services vs. competitors.
3M Uses Azure For Image Analysis Service
May 13, 2013
3M Manager Bill Smyth wanted to launch a new business without plunging into the company's capital budget allocation process. So he used Microsoft's Azure cloud services.
Why IT Is Struggling To Build Private Clouds
May 13, 2013
Think private clouds offer all the flexibility and none of the risk? IT is missing out if it doesn’t prepare for public cloud use.
Google's Cloud Drops Custom Linux For Debian
May 11, 2013
Google cloud workloads have had to use Google's customized version of Linux. Now, Google is moving to a more standard form: Debian Linux.
Amazon Expands Private Cloud-Like Options
May 10, 2013
Amazon Web Services offers more customers Direct Connect private-line access to AWS data centers. Move shows how public clouds can become direct extensions of enterprise data centers.
Boundary Tracks App Performance, Even In AWS
May 09, 2013
Monitoring service uses an analytics engine to detect changes in application performance. It tracks apps inside the data center and those using cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services.
VMware Users Gain Bluelock Recovery Option
May 08, 2013
As VMware prepares for the public cloud market, compatible suppliers like Bluelock add services.
BMC To Go Private: Echoes of Dell
May 07, 2013
Bain Capital and three others will buy management tool vendor BMC, in a move that parallels Dell's effort to go private. Look for focus on cloud and self-service IT tools.
Dell Buys Enstratius, Extends Cloud Reach
May 06, 2013
Dell buys Enstratius to gain ability to deploy workloads to 23 major and secondary cloud service suppliers.
Facebook's Frank Frankovsky: Open Compute Update
May 06, 2013
Facebook's hardware design chief previews his Interop keynote by explaining why he decided to open source the company's data center designs.
Eucalyptus Adds Netflix Tools, Amazon Options
May 02, 2013
Eucalyptus builds Netflix tools into the upcoming 3.3 release of its software for building an Amazon-compatible private cloud.
Amazon Cloud Revenue Mystery Persists
May 01, 2013
Will AWS cloud revenues soon stop appearing under Amazon's "other" column? And are they large enough to finance AWS's future on their own?
Cloud Survey Has Warning For Amazon
April 30, 2013
RightScale's State of the Cloud survey finds Amazon the public cloud leader -- but IT is looking to Rackspace, Google and Microsoft for added testing and experiments.
VMware Adds Interoperability With Ubuntu OpenStack Cloud
April 18, 2013
The next Ubuntu release, coming soon, will include VMware plug-ins for the Quantum networking platform in OpenStack.
Intel Buys Mashery For API Management Expansion
April 18, 2013
Mashery manages APIs for Aetna, Best Buy and The New York Times.
Cloudscaling Updates OpenStack, Supports Amazon APIs
April 17, 2013
Aggressive OpenStack vendor partners with Juniper for virtual networking, declares Amazon "de facto standard."
Red Hat Enters OpenStack Rodeo
April 17, 2013
Red Hat Distribution OpenStack (RDO) comes in free and commercially-supported versions for private cloud builders.
Microsoft Azure Public Cloud Matches Amazon Prices
April 16, 2013
Previously a developer's platform, Microsoft Azure will now compete directly with Amazon Web Services, match it on IaaS pricing.