Profile of Charles Babcock

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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 2013

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Amazon Expands Video Conversion As A Service

1/31/2013
Amazon Elastic Transcoder allows users to use the AWS cloud to convert video into formats for Macs, PCs, iOS and Android devices.
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Amazon E-Retail Down For Hour On Thursday

1/31/2013
Amazon offers no explanation. Amazon Web Services continued functioning, with all services apparently available.
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OVF 2.0 Takes On Cloud Lock-In Worries

1/30/2013
DMTF standards body updates its vendor-neutral virtual machine file format. The goal: Make it easier to leap from cloud to cloud.
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Judge Won't Triple $1.05B Verdict Against Samsung

1/30/2013
In patent battle, Apple had sought "willful infringement" decision in motion following August jury trial; more wrangling ahead.
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Amazon Profits Fall Despite Rising Revenue

1/29/2013
Amazon reports fourth-quarter sales of $21.27 billion, but heavy capital expenditures led to a decline in net income in quarter and an overall $39 million loss for 2012.
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IBM Expands Enterprise Cloud Services

1/29/2013
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ can host SAP, other enterprise apps, and offer uptime rates of 99.7%.
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VMware 2012 Earnings: The Microsoft Story

1/28/2013
At the close of trading Monday, VMware will hold its fourth quarter 2012 earnings call. Revenues are expected to come in on the high side of its range.
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Amazon Startup Contest Winners Strut Stuff

1/25/2013
Amazon Web Services challenge spotlights companies using AWS as a mobile application development environment.
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Indiana University Expands SDN Research Lab

1/25/2013
InCNTRE, the first test bed for OpenFlow and other software-defined networking products, brings Fortune 500 companies and researchers together to advance the protocol.
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VMware Invests $30 Million In Puppet Labs

1/23/2013
VMware reaches deeper into the data center with support for popular open source configuration management firm. But there's a string attached.
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Oracle Offers Subscription Pricing For On-Premises IaaS

1/18/2013
Oracle will configure and charge monthly for familiar infrastructure-as-a-service appliances, rather than requiring a large upfront purchase.
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Herrod To Leave VMware, Join Venture Capital Firm

1/17/2013
Steve Herrod has resigned as CTO of VMware to become managing partner of General Catalyst and share his startup experience.
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Microsoft Enhances System Center For Hybrid Cloud Work

1/15/2013
With System Center's new service pack and Windows Server 2012, an IT administrator can create Hyper-V virtual machines and deploy them to internal data center, remote hosting service provider or public cloud, such as a Windows Azure site.
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Obama's Developer Brain Trust: Inside The Big Battle

1/14/2013
Tech leaders for the Obama for America team discuss their re-election project -- and a business-like culture clash between free-wheeling nerds and their goal-oriented bosses.
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DropBox Restores Service, Mum On Outage Cause

1/11/2013
DropBox client synching and upload services disappeared mid-Thursday afternoon, came back Friday morning.
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How Centre College IT Prepped For VP Debate

1/10/2013
Small college needed new IT infrastructure to meet the Wi-Fi, cellular, VoIP demands for the U.S. vice presidential debate. Here's how they did it.
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OpenStack Brain Trust Gains $10M In New Funding

1/10/2013
Mirantis, one of the only OpenStack brain trusts outside of Rackspace, lines up backers including Dell and Intel to elevate its prominence in the cloud systems integration business.
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Why Application Performance Management Matters Now

1/8/2013
As we rely more on virtualization and cloud, APM systems keep enterprise applications running at top speed for users. More system mapping, data analytics are among key needs.
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Amazon's Cloud Revenues, Examined

1/7/2013
Two analyst firms upgrade Amazon Web Services for broad growth potential; one factor is a growing number of large customers.
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Amazon's Dec. 24th Outage: A Closer Look

1/3/2013
Amazon Web Services once again cites human error spread by automated systems for loss of load balancing at key facility Christmas Eve.
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Zynga Regroups In Quest For Profit

1/2/2013
Online game maker confirms it eliminated 11 underperforming titles, aims to shore up stock price in 2013.
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