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 February 2014

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CloudSigma: One Tool For Many Cloud Workloads

2/28/2014
Swiss cloud service supplier CloudSigma, in partnership with CompatibleOne, lets customers provision and track multiple cloud workloads through a single interface.
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Cloud Security Needs More Layers: HyTrust

2/27/2014
Eric Chiu, co-founder of HyTrust, says cloud operations will require "layered security" and encrypted virtual machines when at rest.
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CenturyLink Pursues Big Data, High Traffic Workloads

2/26/2014
Adds new set of Hyperscale servers equipped with SSDs to address most ambitious public cloud users.
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IBM BlueMix: PaaS Play, Explained

2/25/2014
With BlueMix, IBM gives customers a cloud path for legacy apps. Here's how SoftLayer, Cloud Foundry, and WebSphere tools fit in.
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Verizon Cloud Adds CloudBees PaaS

2/24/2014
Verizon Cloud is still in the process of revamping itself into a cloud service competitor. CloudBees will add a deployment platform.
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Rimini Street Ends Oracle Software Hosting

2/21/2014
In response to court judgment, third-party support supplier Rimini Street tells customers to move Oracle software back into their own datacenters.
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Meet iPaaS: Gartner Ranks New Cloud Service Pioneers

2/19/2014
Gartner creates new cloud category -- integration platform-as-a-service -- and starts tracking a new class of service providers.
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VMware, Google Team On Chromebooks

2/13/2014
Unlikely partners team to offer Desktop-as-a-Service on Google Chromebooks. Will pricing lure users to move away from Windows XP systems?
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DigitalOcean Expands Developer Cloud To Singapore

2/11/2014
Upstart service provider opens sixth datacenter, plans for new UK facility and more developer tools.
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VMware Navigates High-Wire Act

2/10/2014
VMware shows strong profits in fourth quarter, renewed strength as IT spending revives. Commoditization? What commoditization?
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IBM Taps Actifio For Cloud Storage Service

2/7/2014
SmartCloud Data Virtualization puts virtualized copies of application data in the cloud, then makes it available wherever it's most needed.
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Google, Amazon & Microsoft: Cloud Battle Just Changed

2/6/2014
Google is Amazon's only real cloud threat, say observers including Cloudscaling's Randy Bias. But under new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, that's likely to morph.
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Fidelity 'Bridge' Rack Makes Open Hardware Real

2/5/2014
Fidelity Investments works with ElectroRack, Delta Computer, and CPS to offer an innovative new rack design to the Open Compute Project.
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Open-Source Hardware: Prepare For Disruption

2/3/2014
Could open-source hardware shake up the datacenter the way Linux disrupted software? From Facebook to Fidelity, a few big companies say this concept works.
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