Profile of Charles Babcock

Editor at Large, Cloud

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Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for InformationWeek and author of Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, a McGraw-Hill book. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digital News, former software editor of Computerworld and former technology editor of Interactive Week. He is a graduate of Syracuse University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism. He joined the publication in 2003.

Articles by Charles Babcock
posted in January 2011

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Electric Cloud Automates Private Environment For Developers

1/31/2011
ElectricCommander 3.8 converts private clouds into automated development environments.
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Verizon To Buy Terremark For $1.4 Billion

1/28/2011
With the acquisition of the supplier of secure and government-oriented cloud services, Verizon is repositioning itself as a broad technology supplier.
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Oracle Rolls Web 2.0 Features Into WebCenter Suite

1/26/2011
In integrating the best communication features of different portals, Oracle gives project teams a common means of information sharing across its product set.
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IBM To Build Massive China Cloud Data Centers

1/26/2011
The 6.2-million-square-foot campus near Beijing will include offices, call centers, restaurants, and living spaces, as well as at least seven enormous data centers.
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Java Under Oracle: Unity, But No Apache Vitality

1/25/2011
While Oracle has imposed order and unity in a contentious Java community, at what price has it come?
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Integration In The Cloud, The Sleeper Issue

1/21/2011
It won't be enough to just move workloads into the cloud; it'll still be necessary to integrate with other apps residing there.
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With Cloud, What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

1/20/2011
Inevitably, cloud announcements, like Amazon's introduction of Elastic Beanstalk, sound good, but there are limits.
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Private Clouds Taking Off

1/14/2011
Evidence is accumulating that as public clouds gain strength, enterprises are increasingly interested in building their own clouds in the data center.
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4 Companies Getting Real Results From Cloud Computing

1/13/2011
These companies are way past testing the cloud. They've seen the shortcomings, and still are looking ahead to what's next.
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Microsoft Needs A Wider Cloud Strategy

1/11/2011
Bob Muglia, the departing president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, crafted a limited cloud approach based on the hand he was dealt. Here's what his successor should do.
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Virtualization Makes Smartphones Into Laptop Surrogates

1/6/2011
The Motorola Altrix is the first phone to market with Citrix Systems' Nirvana environment able to present virtualized desktop apps.
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Cloud Database Maker Clustrix Gets $12 Million Investment

1/4/2011
The firm has now raised $30 million in venture capital to expand development of its fully relational NoSQL database and appliance products.
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