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 2016

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Killing 'Zombies' Achieves Greatest Gain In Data Center Efficiency

12/29/2016
The Uptime Institute has estimated the gains from eliminating 'zombie' servers and implementing a data center management system versus doing nothing.
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eBay Container Management Tool Works With Kubernetes

12/28/2016
eBay wants to expand its use of Docker containers and has composed a tool, TessMaster, to help them run on Kubernetes cluster management.
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At AWS, 'Enterprise Strategy' Consists Of Helping Migrations

12/21/2016
Head of Enterprise Strategy Stephen Orban describes how AWS will try to assist more enterprise workloads in a move to the cloud.
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GPU Hardware Powers MapD Big Data Management

12/21/2016
When it comes to clickstream data, server log analysis or machine learning, there's a likely GPU-based system in IT's future.
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Docker Move Brings Universal Container Operations A Step Closer

12/16/2016
Docker has contributed a component of Docker Engine, Containerd, to the community; it will provide a key element of a universal runtime.
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EBay, Challenged To Personalize Email Marketing, Customizes CRM

12/14/2016
EBay put custom CRM on top of its SendGrid email system to be able to address millions of customers with an individual message.
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Brooks Brothers In Style As It Moves To Cloud

12/13/2016
With operations depending on SAP HANA, Brooks Brothers management wanted a minimum of downtime in its move to AWS cloud.
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Amazon CTO Vogels: 'We're in the pain management business'

12/12/2016
At AWS ReInvent, Werner Vogels looks back on how Amazon Web Services got to where it is, and where it's going next.
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Amazon Tests New Retail Consumer Checkout System

12/8/2016
A store in downtown Seattle lets shoppers pull items off shelves and exit the store, with the cost of the items automatically added to their account.
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Trainline Tosses Exadata, Takes Oracle Into The Cloud

12/6/2016
Trainline migrates to the cloud, takes Oracle database applications with it for performance faster than Exadata's.
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AWS Smooths Developers' Path To Cloud, Enterprise To Follow?

12/6/2016
Amazon Web Services is filling the gaps in its software development/deployment process in a bid to attract enterprise developers.
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FINRA Commits Mission-Critical App To Amazon Cloud

12/2/2016
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority moved its key market surveillance functionality onto EC2 in 2014, and is making plans to migrate the Oracle database it uses for registration from an internal data center to an AWS service.
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Gartner: Enterprise Mobile Devices Yet To Show Their Strength

12/1/2016
The Annual Personal Technologies Study finds convertible tablets on the rise with room inside the enterprise for other mobile devices to grow.
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