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.

Oracle Adds Multi-Tenancy To WebLogic Application Server

10/30/2015
Several applications may now be consolidated under one instance of WebLogic, potentially enabling users to decrease server hardware purchases.
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HP Emphasizes Commitment To Private OpenStack Cloud

10/30/2015
A week after HP announced it was killing off its Helion public cloud, it has come out with a new release of OpenStack Helion for on-premises.
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Oracle Strengthens Security, Database Features In Sparc Chip

10/29/2015
Oracle aims to make Sparc M7 server chip relevant with new, built-in security and database features, dubbed "software in silicon."
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Oracle Unveils A Multitude Of Cloud Database Services

10/28/2015
In Oracle OpenWorld keynote, president Thomas Kurian launches numerous big data, analytic, and data management services in the Oracle Cloud.
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Rimini Street, Oracle Spar Over Lawsuit Outcome

10/27/2015
Oracle declares it won a significant victory, but Rimini Street sees silver lining in jury's $50 million damage award.
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BNY Mellon Transforms IT One Step At A Time

10/26/2015
FFor three years, BNY Mellon CIO Suresh Kumar has been leading a transformation of the bank's 13,000-member global IT staff toward Agile and private cloud operations. In an interview with InformationWeek, he details the steps he took along the way.
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AWS Emerges As Goliath As Cloud Competition Fades

10/26/2015
With AWS showing fat profit margins after 40% price cuts last year, Amazon competitors must be wondering how they're going to compete.
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AWS Helps Amazon Shine In The Third Quarter

10/23/2015
The AWS cloud pulls Amazon into profitability with its 25% margins. Meanwhile CEO Jeff Bezos moves into the third-richest billionaire slot behind Gates and Buffet.
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Docker Acquires Tutum For 'Last Mile' Container Deployments

10/21/2015
Docker will buy startup Tutum for its operations tooling and workflow for moving Docker containers into production.
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IBM Taps Equinix For Private-Line Cloud Connections

10/20/2015
IBM SoftLayer joins Google, Amazon, and Microsoft Azure in routing connections for privacy-oriented cloud users through Equinix data centers.
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CenturyLink Accelerates SDN Rollout In Data Centers

10/19/2015
CenturyLink pushes software-defined networking into its telecom and cloud data centers as the basis for more user-centric services.
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Wal-Mart Open-Sources Its Multi-Cloud Software

10/16/2015
Was that a swipe at Amazon? Wal-Mart thinks other cloud users should avoid cloud lock-in, just the way it does.
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IBM, Microsoft, AWS Eye India As Next Cloud Hub

10/15/2015
IBM has announced its second cloud data center in India, two weeks after Microsoft said it had three. AWS is next, arriving in 2016.
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IBM Cognitive Colloquium Spotlights Uncovering Dark Data

10/14/2015
This IBM cognitive computing event champions advances in image recognition, captioning, and deep learning to reveal insights from mushrooming IoT and machine learning data.
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VMware Value Lies In Modern Data Center Management

10/13/2015
Some analysts are sounding the death knell for VMware following Dell's planned acquisition of EMC, but don't count out virtualization's stronghold in the enterprise data center.
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Amazon Re:Invent: AWS Takes The Next Step

10/12/2015
AWS announced a bunch of new services at Re:Invent, but more noticeable was the revelation of a more assertive Amazon.
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Amazon Securing IoT Data With Certificates

10/9/2015
Amazon launched its IoT at its Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas Oct. 8, and illustrated how it will handle data pouring into its storage systems.
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Amazon Urges Proprietary Database Customers To Migrate

10/8/2015
Amazon Web Services fourth annual Re:Invent conference got underway in Las Vegas this week. Senior vice president Andy Jassy bid directly for Oracle and SQL Server customers.
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Equinix Opens Faster Pipeline To AWS Deployments

10/7/2015
Equinix is offering bundled tools and services to make it easier to use an Equinix hub as a way station on the road to AWS.
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IBM's Cleversafe Acquisition Expands Hybrid Cloud Storage Options

10/6/2015
Later this year IBM will complete its acquisition of Cleversafe to add an object-based storage system for use on-premises and in the cloud.
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US Dominates In Cloud Data Centers, China Second

10/5/2015
The US and China host 54% of the growing number of cloud data centers around the world, a new report finds. Singapore and Dublin are also significant hubs.
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IBM Nanotube Researcher Explains Breakthrough

10/5/2015
IBM lead researcher Shu-Jen Han explains the significance of finding an effective connector for 7-nanometer nanotube transistors.
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IBM: Nanotube Breakthrough Will Create Low Power, Faster CPUs

10/2/2015
IBM says it has come up with a method to fuse a metal contact point to a carbon nanotube transistor, overcoming a barrier to nanotube CPUs.
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GE CEO: IoT Boosts Safety, Efficiency, Speed

10/1/2015
GE customers echo CEO Jeffrey Immelt's contention at Minds + Machines conference that Predix industrial analytics cloud is "about no unplanned downtime."
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