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 October 2010

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Microsoft Synchs Azure With SQL Server

10/28/2010
SQL Azure in the cloud now synchronizes tables or entire databases with SQL Server on premises, removing a developer headache.
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Intel Spearheads Open Data Alliance For Cloud Users

10/27/2010
Defining cloud services, setting 2011 roadmap and prompting broader adoption are goals of 70-member group.
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VMware Says Automation Critical For Cloud Applications

10/22/2010
VMware's SpringSource unit is evolving the Java framework to offer the firepower required to run apps in public and private clouds. Charles Babcock assesses where they're at.
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WSO2 Launches Eclipse Tool For Carbon Middleware

10/21/2010
Carbon Studio allows developers to test and debug application code inside the familiar Eclipse IDE.
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VMware Reports Q3 Revenue Up 46%

10/19/2010
TriCipher and Integrien acquisitions in the quarter expanded the company's offerings and bolstered its emerging cloud strategy.
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Knowing What You Need From The Cloud

10/18/2010
Forrester's James Staten discusses some of the hurdles that enterprise users face in getting to cloud computing.
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Linux Replacing Windows In Data Centers

10/14/2010
A Linux Foundation survey found increasing preference for the open source operating system in new server deployments.
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VMware Stakes Out Data Center Cloud Leadership

10/13/2010
Not everybody may be ready for the virtual data center, but VMware keeps filling holes in the product line as if one day they will be.
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Virtual Instruments' Thompson New Kid On Virtualization Block

10/12/2010
The former Symantec CEO compares the science of viewing application performance on a virtual machine to the dark art of viewing its SAN I/O.
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Xsigo Doubles Virtualized I/O To 40 Gbps

10/12/2010
I/O Director, previously limited to 20 Gigabits per second, boosts servers' ability to handle increasing numbers of virtual machines.
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Amazon Ups Its Linux And Scalability Options

10/8/2010
Its cloud computing service for businesses continues to expand options.
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Ellison Threatens Cloud More As Friend Than Foe

10/7/2010
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, long a vocal critic, now supports cloud computing, sort of, unless what you're doing falls outside his "definition."
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Assessing Dell's Data-Center Simplification Play

10/5/2010
Viewed through the prism of Dell's recently broadened software management system for virtualized x86 servers, our columnist has kudos for the one-time PC-centric vendor's approach to data center convergence.
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CA Seeds AppLogic Cloud Upgrade

10/4/2010
The first upgrade of AppLogic since CA acquired 3Tera will enable processes to run in the cloud.
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Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Android Phone Patents

10/1/2010
Apple, Oracle and now Microsoft have filed patent suits against Android handset makers or Android's originator, Google.
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Salesforce.com Challenges Oracle CEO's Cloud Account

10/1/2010
Larry Ellison contends virtualization is an essential component of the cloud and, by that measure, Salesforce.com fails, while Oracle's Exalogic Elastic Cloud wins.
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