Profile of Charles Babcock

Editor at Large, Cloud

Member Since: 11/15/2013
Author
News & Commentary Posts: 3423
Comments: 1569

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 2015

View Content By Month

Microsoft, HP Enterprise Revive Partnership With Cloud

11/30/2015
HP and Microsoft were close associates in the early Windows era and the Azure cloud may bring them together again.
Post a Comment

Equinix Adds Dallas, London To AWS Direct Connect Service

11/25/2015
Direct Connect gives private line access to the AWS cloud, something enterprises are seeking as they send more workloads offsite.
Post a Comment

Amazon Bolsters 'Green Power' Investment With Ohio Wind Farm

11/24/2015
Amazon has launched its fourth renewable energy initiative, a wind farm in Ohio, to increase its data centers' use of green power.
Post a Comment

IBM SoftLayer Performance Less Impressive Than Claimed

11/23/2015
VoltDB's latest cloud performance benchmark claims IBM SoftLayer is 3X faster than Amazon, but that's only true if you compare apples to oranges.
Post a Comment

Google Turns To Diane Greene To Lead Cloud Effort

11/20/2015
Google has picked a member of its board of directors, Diane Greene, to lead a "combined cloud" team in competing for enterprise business.
Post a Comment

Containers March Into Mainstream With Security, Management Updates

11/20/2015
Containers are making unrelenting advances into production systems, thanks to better security and management platforms from the likes of Docker, HP, Red Hat, and VMware.
Post a Comment

Forrester: In The Cloud, The Big Get Bigger

11/18/2015
Forrester says cloud challengers will have a hard time competing with incumbents in 2016. AWS, IBM, and Microsoft are "innovating like startups."
Post a Comment

Docker Tightens Security Over Container Vulnerabilities

11/17/2015
Docker unveils three ways to make containers more secure, especially when code is changed during its update cycle.
Post a Comment

VMware Open Sources Photon Controller For Container Users

11/17/2015
VMware's Photon Controller became open source code Nov. 16 in a bid to attract container users who wish to deploy containers with a microvisor.
Post a Comment

Rackspace Carina Promises Simplified Containerized Workloads

11/16/2015
Rackspace opens Carina service, which promises to make it simpler and faster to move containerized workloads to Rackspace and manage them once they are there.
Post a Comment

CoreOS Service Scans Containers For Vulnerabilities

11/13/2015
CoreOS, supplier of a slender Linux for container hosts, has launched a container scanning service capable of detecting vulnerabilities.
Post a Comment

IBM Datapalooza Takes Aim At Data Scientist Shortage

11/12/2015
IBM's quest to create 1 million new data scientists goes forward with a three-day training event and a test bed for taking its show on the road in 2016.
Post a Comment

Kubernetes Yields 'Operations Dividend,' Still Working On Scalability

11/11/2015
On the second day of KubeCon, developers describe the gains and challenges that are still ahead for the open source container orchestration system, Kubernetes.
Post a Comment

Kubernetes Augments Container Management Features

11/10/2015
Google-backed Kubernetes 1.1, released Monday, provides automated "horizontal scaling" of Linux containers, where new pods are created as needed.
Post a Comment

Red Hat Preps Containerized Cloud Workloads In OpenShift

11/9/2015
OpenShift PaaS takes an increasingly sophisticated approach to managing containers and virtual machines on-premises and in the cloud.
Post a Comment

CloudFlare Supplies Security At Network's Edge

11/9/2015
CloudFlare is a startup that has invested in security-as-a-service, and distributes it with a low latency to the edge of the network. Microsoft, Google, and others have taken notice.
Post a Comment

Microsoft, Red Hat Alliance Shows Growing Cloud Influence

11/6/2015
Red Hat and Microsoft, archenemies of yesteryear, bury the hatchet and vow to work together to make hybrid cloud computing easier.
Post a Comment

Docker Adds Multi-Host Networking For Containerized Apps

11/5/2015
Docker has issued the 1.9 release of its container platform, which includes a way for containers to discover and link to each other.
Post a Comment

Intel Primes The Internet Of Things Pump

11/4/2015
Intel has enhanced its Internet of Things platform, including new forms of silicon for "smart" things, partnering with other companies to put it to use.
Post a Comment

Cisco: Public Cloud To Grow 44% Annually Through 2019

11/3/2015
Cisco's annual Global Cloud Index measures cloud traffic and utilization now and projected for five years. Spoiler alert: They're growing.
Post a Comment

Oracle Cloud: 5 Big Challenges

11/3/2015
Oracle now wants its customers to migrate to the cloud, but it may be too little, too late. Here's why.
Post a Comment