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 2012

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Amazon, Equinix Data Centers Vs. Hurricane Sandy

10/31/2012
As Hurricane Sandy battered the Northeast, Amazon Web Services and Equinix data centers held up for most customers.
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Hurricane Sandy Surge Challenges NYC Data Centers

10/30/2012
As Hurricane Sandy raged Monday night, several NYC data centers had to convert to use of diesel generators--and found unexpected problems as the storm surge roiled backup plans.
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VMware Revenues Show Cloud Worries

10/26/2012
VMware rules the virtualization market and wants to do the same with cloud. Can it pull that off and continue its fast-paced growth?
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Heroku Adds Database Service That Scales Out Easily

10/25/2012
Salesforce.com unit adds 'follower' feature that replicates and scales out production databases to handle heavier website traffic.
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Hadoop Gets Elastic Like Amazon's Cloud

10/23/2012
Serengeti Project additions now enable Hadoop to expand and contract if it's running in virtual machines, explains VMware engineer.
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Amazon Outage: Multiple Zones A Smart Strategy

10/23/2012
Amazon Web Services loses one availability zone Monday at its most heavily used site.
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Rackspace Adds Block Storage, Answers Amazon

10/23/2012
Cloud block storage will help Rackspace compete more directly with Amazon, says CTO.
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Amazon Sells Customers On Long-Term Use

10/22/2012
As more Amazon customers sign up for routine use of cloud services, Cloudyn introduces a calculator to help choose cost-efficient mix of long-term and on-demand servers.
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Apple Vs. The Swiss Railways Patent

10/19/2012
Apple's not been convicted of anything by a jury, even if a clever Swiss attorney could make up a color graphic that makes the two clock faces look exactly the same.
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Did OpenStack Let VMware Into The Henhouse?

10/18/2012
VMware has paid its way onto the board of OpenStack, the open source alternative for enterprise cloud standards. Here's what OpenStack must do now.
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Calxeda Gets $55 Million To Fight Intel Servers

10/9/2012
Austin, Texas, startup wins more venture capital backing to take on Intel's growing dominance of the data center. Calxeda's trump card: low power.
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Akamai Zaps Web Content Delivery Delays

10/9/2012
Akamai services gain new smarts about end user devices and network conditions, to prevent delays that can happen when third-party servers dish up content.
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Modern Manhattan Data Center's Secret: Gas Turbines

10/9/2012
Check out how DataGryd CEO Peter Feldman innovates using cheap, plentiful natural gas at his energy plant serving 240,000 square feet of data center space in the heart of Manhattan.
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VMware Fights Lock-In Fears, Supports Rival Tools

10/9/2012
VMware revamps vCloud Suite management tools to work with Microsoft's Hyper-V, Citrix Systems' XenServer, and open source Xen and KVM hypervisors, and run VMs across public and private clouds, including Amazon's EC2.
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Inside One Amazon Cloud Customer's Zone Defense

10/5/2012
How does Okta ensure its service stays up and running on Amazon EC2? It takes an extreme view of Amazon's advice and replicates data in five availability zones.
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Oracle's Hurd Touts San Diego Schools' BI Success

10/4/2012
School district used in-depth analysis and rapid response times to make its data more useful, improve student attendance record, OpenWorld crowd hears.
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HP's Decline: Customers Get Fresh Helping Of Uncertainty

10/4/2012
HP CEO Meg Whitman cites 'bloat' as barrier to turnaround, plans layoffs and slimmer product lines. One reality: customer trust runs low, even as cloud services gain traction.
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Oracle Touts Cloud Flourishes, Trashes Salesforce.com

10/3/2012
At Oracle Open World, CEO Ellison lays on the rhetoric that Oracle's approach is safer than Salesforce.com's. Oracle customers will find his new cloud vision has a familiar bundle of enterprise software at its core.
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Maven Developer Van Zyl Focuses On Code Security

10/1/2012
Developers challenged to keep up with vulnerabilities in open source code components find an ally in Jason van Zyl and Sonatype's repository of reliable, secure code.
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