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 2012

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Amazon's Vogels Challenges IT: Rethink App Dev

11/29/2012
Amazon Web Services CTO says promised land of cloud computing requires a new generation of applications that follow different principles.
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Google Counters Amazon's Storage Price Cuts

11/29/2012
Google cut storage prices by 20% at start of week, and then slashed another 10% in response to Amazon's price drops. Is there a storage price war going on in the cloud?
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Amazon Web Services Slashes Storage Prices

11/28/2012
At its first developers conference, Re:Invent, Amazon features customers like Netflix and NASDAQ and disses its software firm rivals.
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Salesforce.com Wants Developers To Think Big

11/27/2012
With Identity and Canvas plans, Salesforce can begin to provide services to enterprise applications that were thought to have been totally separate from CRM.
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Red Hat Unwraps OpenShift Enterprise At Amazon Event

11/26/2012
Red Hat broadens its open source cloud development platform, which increasingly competes with VMware's Spring and Cloud Foundry.
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Google Adds Cloud Infrastructure Muscle Vs. Amazon

11/21/2012
Google Compute Engine's first major upgrade adds 36 server instances to its cloud catalog, cuts prices to become more competitive.
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Joyent Gets New CEO, Preps Cloud Tools

11/20/2012
Henry Wasik joins Joyent from Dell, where he lead networking unit; cloud software gets upgrade in early 2013.
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10 Cloud Computing Pioneers

11/20/2012
Cloud computing has rewritten decades of technology rules. Take a closer look at 10 innovators who helped make it possible.
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Hurricane Sandy Lesson: VM Migration Can Stop Outages

11/16/2012
When a hurricane or other disaster threatens, why not just move critical systems out of the way? It can be done -- but not at the last minute.
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Microsoft's Ballmer Touts Tablets, Phone, Cloud

11/15/2012
Microsoft CEO discusses strategy to compete on multiple fronts: enterprise IT, consumer devices and application software.
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Monitor Amazon Cloud Services On Your iPhone

11/13/2012
Newvem's Cloud Smart Meter iPhone and iPad app provides analytics, efficiency reports for your Amazon cloud instances.
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Oracle Stakes Claim In Engine Yard PaaS

11/13/2012
Engine Yard provides an online platform for application developers using different Web languages. Oracle's investment is a way to keep itself in front of those developers.
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Amazon Cloud Data Center Opens In Australia

11/12/2012
Amazon Web Services extends its reach around the world, offers full gamut of cloud services from new Sydney data center.
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VMware Does Complicated Dance With Open Source

11/8/2012
Now that VMware owns Nicira, how will Nicira continue to lead development of virtual networking in OpenStack? Nicira founder Martin Casado explains.
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Amazon Cuts Prices Again

11/8/2012
Amazon Web Services has lowered the pricing on two types of relational database service and on ElastiCache, its data-caching service.
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Eucalyptus Won't Be Left Behind In Network Virtualization

11/8/2012
Like VMware and the OpenStack project, open source cloud player Eucalyptus has been adding virtualized networking to its approach.
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OpenStack Fights Cloud Lock-In Worries

11/6/2012
Jonathan Bryce, new OpenStack Foundation executive director, explains how the cloud project takes a democratic approach to win support for its open source work.
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Apple Vs. Motorola Suit Tossed By Judge

11/6/2012
Motorola and Apple sued each other in Florida, Illinois and Wisconsin; Judge Crabb dismisses Wisconsin case. Next up, Washington State.
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Microsoft Launches Office, Azure Services In China

11/5/2012
Microsoft's Windows Azure services and Office 365 cloud-based apps will be made available to millions of potential business customers in 33 cities in China.
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Savvis Challenges Amazon With On-Demand IaaS

11/1/2012
Savvis offering competes directly with Amazon Web Services. Coming soon: daisy-chained data centers that allow systems in one locale to automatically fail over to another.
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Hurricane Sandy: Disaster Recovery Improv Tales

11/1/2012
In lower Manhattan, Peer1 Hosting used a bucket brigade to replenish fuel for diesel generators on the 18th floor after pumps and the elevator broke down. In New Jersey, SunGard rerouted fuel trucks to avoid flooded intersections.
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