Profile of Charles Babcock

Editor at Large, Cloud

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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 2014

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Docker Security Flaw Found

11/26/2014
Docker advises users to upgrade their container formatting system immediately to patch security hole in non-current versions.
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Facebook Data Center Showcases Open Compute Work

11/25/2014
Facebook's Altoona, Iowa, data center includes Open Compute Project data center network fabric.
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IBM Courts DevOps With Dedicated Bluemix

11/24/2014
Dedicated Bluemix is IBM's development platform with host servers in the cloud dedicated to a single customer, for security and compliance reasons.
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Microsoft Azure Outage: Questions Remain

11/21/2014
Microsoft Azure's East and South Central US data centers' performance plummeted while West remained relatively unaffected.
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Microsoft Azure Storage Service Outage: Postmortem

11/20/2014
Azure outage Tuesday produced disruptions to MSN website, Office 365, Xbox Live, and third-party services, as well as possible data integrity problems.
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How Amazon Kinesis Adds Speed, Resilience To Analytics

11/19/2014
Three Kinesis users explain how they use AWS's real-time, streaming data capture and analytics service to support their businesses.
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Interoute, European Cloud Supplier, Makes US Move

11/18/2014
One of Europe's largest cloud service suppliers, Interoute Communications, will open a virtual data center in Los Angeles in December.
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Amazon's Container Strategy, Examined

11/17/2014
Amazon believes it can win developers with new AWS Container Service, despite Google's big headstart.
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Amazon Cloud: 10 New Insights

11/14/2014
AWS already has five times the compute capacity of 14 competitors combined, but it's still expanding fast. See what else we learned at Re:Invent this week.
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Amazon Focuses On New Services, Not Price

11/13/2014
Amazon Web Services expands its menu, while dropping references to its leading price-cutter status.
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IndependenceIT: 'Switzerland' Of Virtualized Desktops

11/12/2014
IndependenceIT offers server-based SaaS to deliver virtualized desktops from an Amazon, Microsoft, or Google cloud.
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Salvation Army Finds Refuge, Recovery In The Cloud

11/11/2014
Nonprofit agency finds cloud-based backup and disaster recovery system is best and most cost-effective way to protect critical data.
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Rackspace Launches Azure Services From Data Centers

11/11/2014
Rackspace offers Microsoft's Cloud OS platform from within its data centers, gives Hyper-V users cloud services backed by technical support.
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CloudHealth Automates Amazon Cloud Management

11/7/2014
Automated Tasks enables IT to define a cloud management task, set policies around it, and implement the task programmatically.
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VMware Preps Australia, Japan vCloud Services

11/5/2014
VMware will launch vCloud Air in Melbourne, Australia, and take the beta label off its Japan service.
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VMware's ESXi Has Backup Bug

11/5/2014
The version of VMware's hypervisor that's embedded in shipping servers has a bug that under certain circumstances corrupts backup virtual machines.
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IBM Launches Cross-Cloud Security Protection

11/5/2014
IBM's Dynamic Cloud Security can monitor and analyze data access activity and applications in IBM SoftLayer, Salesforce.com, and Amazon.
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