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 December 2013

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Why Amazon Faces Challenges In China

12/19/2013
Amazon Web Services will kick off cloud services in China in the first quarter of 2014. It can learn from the hurdles Microsoft and Google have jumped.
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Amazon Kinesis: Fast Analytics On Streaming Data

12/18/2013
AWS Kinesis service takes in thousands of data streams, processes them on an Amazon cluster, and offers results in near real time.
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Rackspace Launches Online DevOps Service

12/16/2013
DevOps Automation Service lets a development team rapidly expand its development infrastructure without taking on more systems management tasks.
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Microsoft Partners To Extend Azure Reach

12/13/2013
Like VMware, Microsoft looks to a set of partners to build out Azure-compatible cloud services and offer them on a regional basis.
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Joyent Launches Ecommerce Solution Set

12/12/2013
Cloud service provider offers preconfigured ecommerce solutions for retailers; targets Amazon customers.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta Debuts

12/12/2013
Red Hat Enterprise Linux adds integration with Windows and VMware's vSphere environments, takes first steps toward hybrid cloud ops.
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Oracle Embraces OpenStack

12/11/2013
Oracle bows to the growing Open Stack trend, promises to integrate its product line with the open-source project.
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Verizon To Buy EdgeCast Content Delivery Network

12/10/2013
Verizon Digital Media is adding a major content delivery network to its rich media capabilities.
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Internap Taps Solid-State Storage For Cloud Service

12/9/2013
Hosting services giant enters cloud sector, aims to differentiate itself from competitors with high-speed, performance-guaranteed block storage.
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RedHat Takes On VMware For PaaS Crown

12/6/2013
Red Hat maneuvers to get its OpenShift platform into as many enterprises as possible, with an eye to private cloud dominance.
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Google Attacks Amazon With Cloud Storage Prices

12/5/2013
Google's 60% cut in block-storage pricing is a move intended to unseat Amazon's dominance in cloud infrastructure.
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Mobile Sites Keep Shoppers Waiting

12/4/2013
Compuware's Internet traffic monitoring found mobile sites were two seconds slower than during 2012's Thanksgiving shopping weekend.
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Google Compute Cloud Challenges Amazon

12/3/2013
Google's Compute Engine comes out of preview, with Google touting lower pricing and "transparent maintenance."
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HP Plans Free Propel Cloud Services

12/3/2013
HP borrows the freemium concept to launch three products for IT service automation, often a first step in movement toward private cloud.
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Rackspace CTO Engates Analyzes HealthCare.gov Meltdown

12/2/2013
John Engates went to the White House Monday to get a closer look at what went wrong with HealthCare.gov. Unlike actor Jimmy Stewart's Mr. Smith, Engates came away from Washington saying this problem can be fixed.
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