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 December 2015

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Secrets Of NBA Stephen Curry's Shooting Hidden In Data

12/29/2015
When FiveThirtyEight and ESPN Sports Science turn their analytics on Stephen Curry's stats, surprising things show up.
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Red Hat Closing In On $2 Billion In Its Fourth Quarter

12/28/2015
Red Hat finishes 2015 on a strong financial note, with OpenShift 3.1 positioned as its next-generation cloud application development platform.
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Is Amazon Testing Its Own Package Delivery Airline?

12/23/2015
Reports suggest Amazon is conducting a pilot experiment in air freight delivery at an Ohio airport due to dissatisfaction with UPS and FedEx deliveries.
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Amazon's 'Virtual CPU'? You Figure It Out

12/23/2015
Amazon used to have a clear definition of what a virtual CPU was. Now it goes by a "variety of measures," making cloud comparison difficult.
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Cloud Foundry Launches Cross-Vendor Cloud Service Certification

12/21/2015
Cloud Foundry aims to become the cross-vendor platform for producing the next generation of applications with new cloud supplier certification.
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Cloud In 2015: Year Of Shake-up, Consolidation, Advance

12/16/2015
Cloud computing showed a rapidly changing face in 2015 as many vendors altered their strategies to deal with Amazon's clear dominance. Check out these seven gains and three setbacks that prove how volatile the cloud was over the past year.
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Equinix Urges Enterprise 'Interconnection-First' Strategy

12/10/2015
Equinix, the operator of 100 data center/telecom hubs, wants to make going to the cloud a pattern for many enterprise communications.
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Amazon Offers 'Feature-Rich' Active Directory As A Service

12/10/2015
Amazon adds an enterprise version of Microsoft's Active Directory in its EC2 cloud as a managed service to appeal to enterprise users.
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IBM Sells Grocery Store Chain On SoftLayer Cloud

12/9/2015
Giant Eagle selects IBM for cloud service, primarily due to availability of bare-metal option for legacy IT systems.
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Microsoft Azure Support Added To Red Hat CloudForms Tools

12/8/2015
Red Hat has stayed out of the public cloud provider role, but it's wading deep into cloud management with CloudForms 4. Support for Microsoft's Azure cloud has been added to its hybrid management approach, with services for additional cloud vendors on the horizon.
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Open Container Initiative Finds Footing In Linux Foundation

12/8/2015
Container spec has been sanctioned as a self-governing project under the Linux Foundation umbrella. Next up: election of its Technical Advisory Board.
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Calico Scales Networking To Container Orchestrators

12/4/2015
Calico open source project extends its reach to CoreOS' Tectonic container orchestrator for cloud container scalability plus security.
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Amazon Adds 'Dedicated Hosts' To Its Cloud Offerings

12/2/2015
Amazon has long spurned the move, but a new emphasis on enterprise computing dictates that the company offer single-tenant hosts for customers.
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