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 2011

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How Netflix, Zynga Beat Amazon Cloud Failure

11/30/2011
When Amazon Web Services crashed in April, Netflix and Zynga kept operating because they designed their systems to accommodate that possibility.
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VMware's Best And Worst Moves Of 2011

11/30/2011
Virtualization market leader VMware launched several bold initiatives in 2011--and made several missteps.
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VMware's Cloud Foundry Ranked Top Developer Platform

11/23/2011
New VMware kid on the PaaS block takes "best overall" honors, while Google App Engine is best public and IBM SmartCloud best private cloud platform in Evans Data survey.
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Amazon's New Data Center Could Save You Money

11/22/2011
With Oregon data center, Amazon Web Services gives West Coast infrastructure-as-a-service customers a 10% price break.
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AMD Designed Bulldozer For Large Virtual Machine Loads

11/21/2011
BlueLock, which provides infrastructure services from its data centers, likes AMD cores for computing in highly virtualized environments.
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Solaris 11 Supports Two Forms Of Virtualization

11/17/2011
Oracle's first update of Sun's Unix includes support for Oracle VM hypervisor and Solaris Zones.
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Why App Dev Needs A Better Deployment Pipeline

11/16/2011
A more trusted deployment process lets developers launch new code more often.
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Where Agile Development Fails: IT Operations

11/16/2011
Agile developers want fast and frequent deployments. IT operations teams want stability. A growing movement is trying to bridge the gap.
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Dell Plays Switzerland Between Microsoft, VMware

11/15/2011
Dell will be an honest broker on behalf of customers using hypervisor technologies from warring parties--who have shown no appetite for appeasing tensions themselves.
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AMD Bulldozer Chip Wants To Flatten Intel

11/14/2011
Bulldozer Opteron 6200 processor, first x86 chip to use up to 16 cores, aims to help servers host many virtual machines while consuming less power per core.
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4 Lessons Learned From Virtualization Masters

11/8/2011
IT pros who've virtualized upwards of 70% of the data center share how they've solved problems that more cautious adopters have yet to see.
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How Fast Is Your Mobile App? Gomez Knows

11/3/2011
Compuware's Gomez links to Google Mobile Page Speed service to measure mobile application performance for 5,000 different devices.
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VMware Users Hear Siren Song Of Lower Cost

11/2/2011
In new Veeam survey, 38% of hypervisor users say they plan to switch vendors during the next 12 months. Cost cited as leading factor.
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HP Plans Low-Power Servers Using Calxeda ARM Chips

11/1/2011
HP's tiny servers built on Calxeda's energy efficient Cortex chip are designed to handle large Web data streams, video processing, picture uploading, or Hadoop-style big data analysis.
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