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.

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posted in October 2013

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IBM Shifts SmartCloud Customers To SoftLayer

10/31/2013
IBM customers have been notified to move by Jan. 31; IBM SoftLayer unit operates 13 data centers.
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Amazon Plans 4th California Retail Distribution Facility

10/30/2013
Online retail giant seeks to foster faster deliveries, including same-day fresh groceries, through modern fulfillment centers.
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Nebula, GigaSpaces Team To Ease OpenStack App Migrations

10/30/2013
Nebula configures the hardware, while GigaSpaces' Cloudify helps prepare complex legacy apps to migrate into an OpenStack private cloud.
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Docker Finds Open Source Success

10/29/2013
PaaS firm formerly known as dotCloud changes its name to Docker after developers embrace open source Docker.org project.
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NTT Invests $875M In U.S. Colocation, Cloud Companies

10/28/2013
Japanese telecom giant will pay $525 million for Virtela enterprise communications and $350 million for an 80% stake in RagingWire data centers.
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Bromium, 'Microvisor' Champion, Raises $40 Million More

10/28/2013
Bromium's third round of financing brings total to $75.7 million as company positions itself for rapid growth.
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Amazon Web Services Revenue: New Details

10/24/2013
Amazon reports higher-than-expected revenues in third quarter. Service revenues from AWS represent 84% of the monies in Amazon's long-shrouded "other" balance sheet category, analysts said.
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Google App Engine Swings, But OpenStack Is King

10/24/2013
Cloud users voted with their feet, made OpenStack topics the most popular sessions at Cloud Connect 2013. Here's what they learned.
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Cloud Vs. Tough Problems From Business To Weather

10/23/2013
ZipCar founder Robin Chase and other Cloud Connect 2013 speakers explain how cloud can help solve pressing world problems.
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Cloud Lets You Test Business Ideas Faster

10/22/2013
Cloud offers a low-risk, high-reward way to rapidly test new business ideas, much like successful fighter pilots can quickly adapt and outpace opponents, says BMC's David Roberts at Cloud Connect.
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PaasLane Speeds Cloud App Migrations

10/20/2013
Cloud Technology Partners launches system that simplifies migrating legacy applications into the generic cloud, says Amazon version is on the way.
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Cloud Infrastructure Buyers: Job 1 Is Studying Architecture

10/18/2013
No two cloud infrastructure vendors are exactly alike.
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OpenStack Havana Has Amazon-Like Aura

10/18/2013
OpenStack is building up services fast, including some aspects of platform-as-a-service, in its new Havana release. That increases its appeal as the basis for private cloud in the enterprise.
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Avaya Helps Developers Add Collaboration To Apps

10/16/2013
Aura Collaboration Environment helps developers put teleconferencing, messaging and other collaboration services directly into business applications.
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Nirvanix Shutdown: HP Steps In To Move Data

10/10/2013
HP helps a customer move crucial data out of the Nirvanix cloud, through a migration script and across 200 miles to HP Public Cloud.
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IBM Solves Virtual Machine 'Noisy Neighbor' Problem

10/10/2013
New IBM patent shifts VMs to load balance network bandwidth, making better use of all computing and network resources.
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CA Takes Cue From Open Source: Free Monitoring Tool

10/9/2013
Nimsoft Monitor Snap for 30 devices is available for free download; CA seeks to build community around it.
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Microsoft's Azure Cloud Move: What It Means

10/9/2013
Microsoft offers customers an easy roadmap into the cloud through the familiar Windows Server management console.
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SeaMicro Behind 'Revolutionary' New Verizon Cloud Servers

10/7/2013
AMD-owned SeaMicro says cloud server technology it developed with Verizon is more energy efficient and can be managed as easily as on-site hardware.
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Verizon Pushes Into Google, Amazon, Microsoft IaaS Territory

10/3/2013
Verizon's cloud unit has re-architected seven cloud data centers with "triple" their former density of infrastructure.
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Nirvanix Declares Bankruptcy; Customer Data Pours Out

10/2/2013
Nirvanix partner IBM helps storage users exit the cloud service; CoreSite and Rackspace offer further assistance.
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Amazon.com To Hire 70,000 In Fourth Quarter

10/1/2013
Online retail giant readies fulfillment staff for holiday sales expected to be 40% ahead of last year.
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