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.

6 Big Questions For Private Cloud Projects

10/28/2011
Cloud Technology Partners execs share advice on avoiding common traps as you move from legacy enterprise infrastructure to the private cloud.
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5 Cloud Lessons Learned From Finance Industry Gurus

10/27/2011
The advantages of private clouds and the lack of good IT talent gets Boston members of the Wall Street Technology Association talking.
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Dell's Boomi Lets Apps Talk Via Cloud Hub

10/25/2011
Latest release of AtomSphere helps you build a connected business process, using lightweight rule engine to govern how applications update each other's data.
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When SaaS Apps Don't Connect: One Answer

10/24/2011
MuleSoft puts its enterprise service bus in the cloud with SaaS connectors, other supporting services.
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Will Dell Lead The x86 Data Center Market?

10/21/2011
Can Dell's vStart virtualized rack systems that integrate servers, switches, and storage lead a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars?
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Oracle Social Network To Challenge Salesforce Chatter

10/21/2011
Oracle add social networking collaboration features to Oracle Cloud.
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Zend Launches PHP Development Cloud

10/19/2011
Popular Web development community gets free sandbox on Amazon that enables multi-cloud application deployments.
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Clouds Vs. Outsourcing: The Next Battleground

10/19/2011
Clamor for private cloud services from infrastructure-as-a-service providers threatens traditional outsourcing firms like HP and IBM.
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Virtualization's Next Wave Of Problems

10/19/2011
As companies push virtualization to more--and more essential--systems, things are getting complicated.
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Windows 8: Ballmer Shows Off 4 Features

10/14/2011
At Dell World, Steve Ballmer gave attendees a look at some interesting changes in Windows 8 and Windows 8 server. Here's what they saw.
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Dell World: Boomi's Reach Expands

10/13/2011

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Dell World: Maritz Shares Automation Vision

10/13/2011
"Oracle clearly wants you to enter the Oracle universe and never leave," VMware chief tells Dell World audience, as he pushes vision of automated cloud computing.
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Dell World: Kundra Shares Federal CIO Lessons

10/13/2011
Dell World attendees get an inside look at the challenges of being a federal CIO--and at the numbers involved.
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Michael Dell Playing Enterprise Game To Win

10/13/2011
A confident Michael Dell took the stage at Dell World Thursday to tout his company's services, virtualization and data center offerings--and asserted that the future of business tech isn't about Apple.
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Dell World: Big Hopes To Woo HP Customers

10/13/2011
At a time when HP's customer confidence has waned, Dell launches a new event in Austin, Texas: Dell World.
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Microsoft Azure Named Top Cloud Performer

10/7/2011
Google ranked second, Amazon Web Services sixth in Compuware's CloudSleuth monitoring tests; methodology is likely to be debated.
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How Oracle's Public Cloud Is Different

10/6/2011
By building its public cloud on Exadata and Exalogic appliances and implementing monthly subscription-based pricing, Oracle seeks to challenge Amazon, Rackspace.
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Oracle Takes Plunge Into Public Cloud Computing

10/5/2011
CEO Ellison announces Oracle's move to infrastructure as a service at OpenWorld conference, where most of the emphasis has been on in-house, high end hardware appliances.
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Benioff, Denied OpenWorld Keynote, Mounts Podium Anyway

10/5/2011
Salesforce.com CEO claims he was ousted after tiff with Oracle CEO over critical Facebook posting. Oracle owes Salesforce $1 million, he says.
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Do's And Don'ts Of API Development

10/5/2011
In a sidebar to Oracle OpenWorld, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Salesforce execs say simple, well-documented APIs are key to business expansion.
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Michael Dell Draws Closer To Oracle At OpenWorld

10/4/2011
Dell's appearance supplied ample testimony to how hard Oracle is trying to become a hardware company.
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Will Management Tool Make IT Want More Oracle?

10/3/2011
Enterprise Manager 12c, announced at OpenWorld, lets IT use one console to manage Oracle products running in data center or cloud.
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Oracle Appliance Gets Tools To Work With NoSQL

10/3/2011
Exalytics can load sorted data out of Hadoop for advanced analytics, business intelligence.
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