Profile of Charles Babcock

Editor at Large, Cloud Member Since: 11/15/2013
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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.

CA Upgrades System Management Products

10/30/2009
CA upgrades four system management products, giving each greater authority over the virtual domain as well as physical assets.
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RightScale Refreshes Cloud Management Platform

10/30/2009
It has expanded its line of server templates suitable for configuring a workload to be sent to Amazon's EC2 public cloud.
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Benioff Discloses All In 'Behind the Cloud' Except...

10/29/2009
Five copies of "Behind the Cloud" have arrived at my desk, two intended for fellow IW staffers and three for me, an embarrassment of riches. It's Marc Benioff's book on how Salesforce.com was created and built into a successful company. I am reading it avidly… but some disclosures will apparently have to wait for the sequel.
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TV Web Site Opts For Cloud Servers

10/29/2009
To handle extreme spikes in Web traffic, a popular television show's servers were ditched in favor of Rackspace cloud hosting.
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Catbird Monitoring VMs In Amazon EC2

10/29/2009
A version of Catbird's vSecurity Cloud Edition is available as an app in Amazon's EC2-approved catalog of application services.
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IBM Integrates Dev Tools With Tivoli

10/28/2009
The integration of testing and asset management tools enables software developers to more cleanly automate deployment of new apps.
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Ubuntu Server 9.1 Adds Cloud APIs

10/28/2009
Canonical's Linux operating system includes built-in means of accessing Amazon's EC2 with a compatible set of APIs from the Eucalyptus open source project.
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CA Offers Integrated Management Console

10/27/2009
A single console monitors realtime application performance of both distributed systems and mainframe applications.
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EnterpriseDB, Postgres Maker, Raises $19 Million

10/27/2009
IBM, Red Hat, and NTT are backing the open source database maker.
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VMware Workstation 7 Supports Windows 7

10/27/2009
Workstation 7 supports virtual machines and takes advantage of enhanced 3D graphics and other features of Microsoft's latest OS.
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Is Cloud Bigger Than The Advent Of The Personal Computer?

10/26/2009
Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, says "the cloud" is a phenomenon that is bigger than the advent of the PC. I think he's almost got it right. Cloud is bigger than the PC Revolution, but it's big in part because it incorporates and extends the PC revolution to Internet server clusters. The cloud owes more to the PC than Eric acknowledges.
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Adobe, Salesforce Put Flash In Cloud

10/23/2009
Salesforce.com and Adobe Systems are teaming up to put interactive, rich user interface applications in the cloud ahead of Microsoft's Azure launch.
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Teradata Offers Free Software

10/23/2009
Free data warehouse software is available for two x86 setting: Amazon EC2 and VMware Player.
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VMware 3Q Revenues Slow

10/22/2009
Overall revenue growth was only 4%, but software maintenance and service revenues were up 33%.
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Sun Plans To Cut 3,000 Jobs Over the Next 12 Months

10/22/2009
Sun disclosed Tuesday in regulatory filings that it plans to cut 3,000 jobs from its workforce, as it awaits the go-ahead on its takeover by Oracle. It's cut 7,600 workers in three rounds of layoffs over three years, according to SEC filings. Will this mark the end of the downsizing?
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Oracle Patches 36 Bugs

10/21/2009
Three of the fixes with the highest vulnerability rating are for the core Oracle Database Server itself.
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BMC To Acquire Tideway

10/21/2009
Systems management supplier BMC Software is buying the data center infrastructure mapping software supplier. Terms were not disclosed.
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Avoid Trap Of Proprietary Cloud Tooling: Use Simple API

10/21/2009
What's the first thing you should do if you're thinking of developing software for cloud computing? At ZendCon, Zend Technologies user group yesterday, three members of a five member panel answered the same way: adopt Simple Cloud API, the open source cloud services interface.
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SpringSource Upgrades Java Framework

10/21/2009
Version 3.0 of the automated Java programmer platform and a Developer Edition of Spring tc Server are the latest offerings from Springsource.
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Zend, RightScale Put PHP Apps In Cloud

10/20/2009
Developers can deploy PHP applications on Amazon's EC2 cloud and monitor them via RightScale's Cloud Management Platform.
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IBM Announces VM Management System

10/19/2009
VMControl seeks to combine management of virtual machines on servers with virtualized storage and virtual networking.
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Microsoft Readies Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

10/19/2009
The revamped developers' toolset will be available to Microsoft Development Network members Wednesday.
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Oracle VM 2.2 Supports Faster Chips

10/16/2009
The updated virtual machine hypervisor takes advantage of Intel's Nehalem and six-core Opteron processors from AMD.
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Oracle Enterprise Manager Minds The Data

10/16/2009
A car rental chain is using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g to monitor 400 database systems, taking the burden off its DBAs.
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Jitterbit Expands Data Integration Tools

10/16/2009
More management features have been added to Version 3.0 Enterprise MX, Jitterbit's open source data integration system.
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Ellison Details 'Next-Gen' Oracle Tech Support

10/15/2009
At OracleWorld, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison discussed Web-based technical support and introduced a surprise guest: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Benioff, Dell Link Arms: Here Comes Hybrid Cloud

10/14/2009
Marc Benioff set aside his duties as master of ceremonies at the death of software Tuesday and announced on-demand applications and on-premises applications could work together. His venue was a Yerba Buena Center theater in San Francisco next to Oracle OpenWorld. He still took a swipe at enterprise software, but his talk was titled, "The Best of Both Worlds."
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Dell: IT Can Create $200 Billion In Efficiencies

10/13/2009
Virtualization could take a large chunk out of the $1.2 trillion spent on IT in North America each year, Michael Dell said at OracleWorld.
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Oracle, Sun Claim Fastest Database

10/12/2009
Oracle OpenWorld highlighted an Exadata database machine with flash memory that's become the transaction processing leader, the companies say.
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Oracle Execs Detail App Integration Strategy

10/12/2009
At Oracle OpenWorld, Safra Catz and Charles Phillips, Oracle's presidents, pledged full integration of Sun hardware and software.
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Univa Puts Oracle E-Business Suite In Cloud

10/9/2009
The software maker will demonstrate, at Oracle OpenWorld, how Oracle's enterprise apps can be run remotely, in the cloud.
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Ingres Goes After Sun's Customers

10/9/2009
The open source database maker offers a migration path for Sun customers with its latest release, Ingres 9.3.
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IBM Offers DB2 On Unix Rack Mount Servers

10/8/2009
DB2 pureScale is intended to compete with Oracle Real Application Clusters and other scalable database systems.
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IBM Updates BPM Suite v7

10/8/2009
Addition of the ILOG JRules business rules engine enhances the enterprise business process management tool.
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Google, Amazon Top Public Cloud Surveys

10/7/2009
IBM and VMware are the vendors most dedicated to creating private clouds, analysis of developer surveys shows.
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Terracotta Adds Ehcache Cache Management

10/6/2009
The move meshes Terracotta's distributed Java caching system with popular stand-alone open source caching product, Ehcache.
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IBM Launches iNotes In The Cloud, More To Come?

10/6/2009
IBM is wading into online email service, a space where Google, Yahoo and Microsoft already have big presences. Is IBM staging a kamikaze run, giving itself one more place where Lotus Notes will show it's got difficulty competing? Is there a method to this madness? Why does IBM have its head in the clouds?
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Citrix Offers Desktop Virtualization Flexibility

10/6/2009
With XenDesktop 4, Citrix says IT managers will be able to configure virtualization options for various sets of end users.
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VMware Updates Disaster Recovery Offering

10/5/2009
Site Recovery Manager 4 can be used to supply multiple recovery systems for an enterprise with more than one data center.
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Cloudera Launches Desktop Interface

10/2/2009
Cloudera is trying to make Hadoop, used by Google, Amazon and Yahoo for data analysis, useful as a business intelligence tool.
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Microsoft Touts Hyper-V Live Migration

10/1/2009
Virtual machine live migration is the top new feature of Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft says.
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Red Hat Asks Supreme Court To Nix Software Patents

10/1/2009
"Our patent system is supposed to foster innovation, but for open source and software in general, it does the opposite," said a Red Hat lawyer.
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