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 November 2009

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Open Source Firm Launches Cloud Middleware Platform

11/30/2009
WSO2 is moving from supplying light weight SOA services to the enterprise to providing middleware as a service for cloud operations.
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rPath Upgrades Linux App Deployment Platform

11/30/2009
The development tool expands the capabilities of its Linux application deployment platform to provide dashboard visualization of the deployment stack.
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Elastra Cloud Server Preps Apps For Azure, Amazon

11/25/2009
Startup Elastra configures applications for deployment to a private cloud, Amazon EC2, or Microsoft Azure.
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Microsoft Azure Supports Federated ID

11/24/2009
A federated identity can be used to provide a single sign on to multiple applications, both in the enterprise and in the cloud.
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Microsoft AppFabric Adds Azure Cloud Plumbing

11/19/2009
AppFabric, now in beta, rolls up a host of foundation technologies which will enable Azure to work with software in the enterprise.
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Microsoft Pioneers Cloud Framework As A Service

11/18/2009
"Who would have imagined the explosion of interest in the cloud?" asked Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect, at the opening of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference this week in Los Angeles. Well, Ozzie foresaw it and he listened to developers on how to best position his company.
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Q&A: Microsoft Exec Bob Muglia On Cloud, Azure

11/18/2009
Muglia talks about coordinating between the Azure cloud and the existing data center and calls the the cloud "the biggest thing I've seen in 20 years."
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Microsoft Launches Azure Beta

11/17/2009
Ray Ozzie and Robert Muglia present Microsoft's Azure cloud services at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
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Citrix Rolls Out Xen Desktop 4

11/16/2009
Windows 7 will prompt a rethinking of the desktop in 2010 and lead many to virtualize, Citrix says.
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Amazon Bids For Windows Developers On Eve Of Azure's Launch

11/12/2009
Four days before Microsoft launches its Azure cloud platform to developers at a conference in L.A., Amazon has come up with a .Net software development kit to help Windows developers produce code that runs in Amazon's EC2. It's probably just coincidence. But let's see what they're getting with AWS SDK for .Net.
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Skytap Boosts Collaborative Cloud Project Management

11/11/2009
Skytap is putting a collaborative front end on cloud computing to help distributed dev teams better manage software projects.
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Oracle Updates Berkeley Database

11/11/2009
Oracle has brought out a fourth version of the Berkeley DB Java Edition database system with enhanced performance and replication.
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Here's What's Different About 'The Cloud'

11/10/2009
What's different about cloud computing versus the forms of computing that have gone before? It's really just a matter of scale, isn't it? The Google or Amazon.com or eBay data centers are maybe a little bigger than a big enterprise data center, right? Wrong. One answer lies in an example like Hadoop.
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Microsoft To Buy SourceGear's Teamprise

11/10/2009
In effect, Microsoft is making a bid to supply back end services to developers who are not using Visual Studio.
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VMware Releases View 4

11/9/2009
View 4 addresses a persistent desktop virtualization problem: the latency inherent in running desktops from virtual machines on central servers.
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Hadoop Crunches Web-Sized Data

11/6/2009
To parse large volumes of data from Web servers, Yahoo and others turn to Hadoop's open source cloud-based analysis system.
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What's The Definition Of Cloud Computing?

11/6/2009
What's the definition of cloud computing? I keep asking myself that question and hearing different answers. Despite the frequent use of the term, it still means different things to different people. That was evident at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo this week in Santa Clara, where I thought I would find consensus.
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HP Offers Data Center Scalability

11/5/2009
An elastic data center, based on virtualized resource pools, can scale in response to unpredictable business conditions, HP says.
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Red Hat Offers Virtualization Management

11/4/2009
The Linux vendor announces Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers, or a centralized management system for KVM virtual machines.
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Dell Eyes Cloud Computing

11/4/2009
To become a major cloud computing hardware supplier, Dell must master best practices for producing the right machine for a given cloud.
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Hybrid Clouds Floating To Enterprise Forefront

11/4/2009
At the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo, speakers raise the prospect of private clouds working with public clouds.
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Intel Details Private Cloud Hurdles

11/3/2009
At the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, an executive in Intel's Server Platform Group describes the potential gains -- and pitfalls -- of cloud computing.
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