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 2015

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Red Hat OpenShift Commons Adds Fuel To Cloud Foundry Competition

2/27/2015
Red Hat looks to boost its cloud development platform by giving it a Commons where developers may exchange best practices.
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Docker Preps Containers For Amazon, Other Clouds

2/26/2015
Docker introduces three orchestration tools designed to help deploy distributed applications.
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7 Linux Facts That Will Surprise You

2/24/2015
Here are seven things we bet you didn't know about Linux and why it remains a software project of historic proportions.
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IBM Promises Bridge From Data Center To Cloud

2/24/2015
IBM said at its Interconnect conference its new services will allow easier shifting between the enterprise data center and public cloud.
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Google Cloud Outage: Virtual Networking Breakdown

2/20/2015
Google's virtual networking software stopped providing routing updates, and customers lost their connections to the outside world.
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Rocket Containers: How CoreOS Plans To Challenge Docker

2/20/2015
As containers rise in importance for data center innovation, the Rocket project has attracted 50 contributors in its bid against today's de facto option, Docker.
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Google: Docker Does Containers Right

2/19/2015
Two leaders for Google's cloud computing services talk about how they use containers in the data center, and why virtual machines also remain critical to their strategy.
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Heroku Expands Cloud Services For Enterprise Development

2/19/2015
Heroku has added access controls and code deployment capabilities to its Platform-as-a-Service, which runs on top of Amazon's EC2.
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5 Cloud Predictions For 2015 From TBR

2/16/2015
Infrastructure-as-a-service has moved toward commodity status, spurring Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and others to add services and specialties.
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Stop Amazon: A New Era Of Cloud Co-opetition

2/16/2015
The recent VMware and Google partnership shows how far competitors will go to keep would-be cloud customers from flocking to Amazon.
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First American: Cloud Analysis Points To Savings

2/10/2015
First American title insurance ramps up Azure spending as Apptio expense metrics show a gain versus on-premises virtual machines.
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Containers Get Ready To Run Critical Production Apps

2/10/2015
Interest in Docker runs high, even among practiced virtual machine users. One big question: Who will provide container management?
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Containers Explained: 9 Essentials You Need To Know

2/10/2015
Containers are the hottest topic in the data center. Here are the essentials that every well-informed IT pro should know and be able to explain.
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Oracle Linux Wants To Be 'Dockerized' Too

2/6/2015
Oracle Linux is available in a Docker container on the Docker Hub, which should aid development and database app mobility.
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Equinix Cloud Exchange: Private Access To Public Clouds

2/5/2015
Equinix is offering Cloud Exchange, where customers can select the cloud they want to connect with.
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VMware NSX: A Cloud Pitch To Sell SDN

2/5/2015
Software defined networking is key to VMware's data center ambitions, so it's selling NSX-as-a-service through the vCloud Air public cloud.
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VMware CEO Gelsinger: It's Time For 'Brave IT'

2/3/2015
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger urges IT to manage virtualized resources, not physical hardware and networks.
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VMware Shows Off New Live Migration, OpenStack Options

2/3/2015
VMware's vSphere 6 lets companies shift running virtual workloads up to 3,000 miles away.
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