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 2014

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Amazon Posts 20% Revenue Growth, Stock Drops

1/31/2014
Amazon.com and its Web Services unit grew in the fourth quarter of 2013 but not enough to please investors -- Amazon stock dropped 9.5%.
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Open Hardware Is Like Linux: True Or False?

1/31/2014
Examine this analogy closely. Open-source hardware and open-source software involve different processes with different levels of user participation.
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Microsoft Makes Azure Server Design Open-Source

1/29/2014
Open-source hardware movement wins a surprise supporter. Microsoft joins Open Compute project, shares its server design ideas.
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Apprenda 5.0 Eases Cloud Application Scaling

1/28/2014
PaaS enables moving legacy Java and .Net applications to the cloud, brings slider interface to automatically scaling server instances as demand rises and falls.
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Amazon Cuts Cloud Storage Prices, Adds Server Instances

1/23/2014
Amazon Web Services will cut Elastic Block Store prices by up to 50% and Simple Storage Service by an average of 14%, plus add two new M3 virtual servers.
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Microsoft Researchers Seek Performance-Based Cloud Pricing Patent

1/17/2014
Cloud pricing scheme based on performance levels, instead of units of time, would be interesting play against rivals such as Amazon Web Services.
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IBM Bets Big On Global Datacenter Network

1/17/2014
IBM will spend $1.2 billion and build out 40 SoftLayer-based datacenters to deliver enterprise cloud services. Locales range from China to Mexico.
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IBM Stuffs Flash Into Next-Generation Servers

1/16/2014
IBM moves flash storage inside the box -- 12.8 TB of it -- to work alongside RAM and cut data movement latencies.
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Rackspace Names Taylor Rhodes President

1/14/2014
Former chief customer officer aims to shake off investor doubts about Rackspace's cloud service fortunes.
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Dropbox Takes Blame For Cloud Outage

1/14/2014
Post-mortem analysis says Friday's cloud service outage was caused by bad script in routine maintenance update.
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CenturyLink Eases Cloud Foundry Deployments

1/9/2014
CenturyLink embraces Bosh software support from Tier3 acquisition, aims for a greater piece of the PaaS pie owned by Amazon, Microsoft, Google.
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IBM Builds A Better OpenStack Scheduler

1/8/2014
IBM's Platform scheduler uses more efficient resource management to improve on OpenStack's own scheduler operations.
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eLynx Maps Mortgage Docs Move To Public Cloud

1/6/2014
Provider of mortgage documents and digital signatures says banks and mortgage lenders will follow its move to public cloud.
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6 Cloud Upstarts To Watch

1/2/2014
Watch out, Amazon Web Services. These younger cloud companies bring new architectures and provisioning methods to the game.
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