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 2017

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Workers Welcome AI But Remain Skeptical About Its Benefits

2/24/2017
Survey by Atlassian finds wide worker expectbations of working alongside AI software and discomfort with the prospect.
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Evernote Completes Migration To Google, Data Center Shutdown

2/23/2017
The online user content capture system, Evernote, has moved 2.9 PBs of data into the Google Cloud and shut down its primary data center.
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Bloomberg Adds Machine-Learning To Apache Solr Search

2/22/2017
Bloomberg has created an open source way to use machine-learning models to weight searches, then add their values to the Solr search engine.
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Containers May Work With, Or In Place Of, Private Cloud

2/20/2017
OpenStack is presented as a good container management environment; what if container managers can manage the infrastructure as well?
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What's Cognitive Computing, And What's That Noise Overhead?

2/17/2017
Soon after an IBM round table on cognitive computing in San Francisco, the need for it at that location became abundantly clear.
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'Unbounded IT' Draws On Internal, External Resources, Says Deloitte

2/16/2017
Deloitte Consulting report on the future of IT sees 'Unbound IT' aligned with the 'kinetic enterprise' and able to tap external tech resources.
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Private Cloud Merits 2nd Look As Container Environment

2/14/2017
Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, says Project Zun gives enterprise IT a new reason to reconsider OpenStack for private clouds.
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Deloitte: These Emerging Technologies Will Play Critical Roles

2/13/2017
Deloitte Consulting cites seven emerging technologies as critical to the future of IT: dark analytics, mixed reality and blockchain included.
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Ponemon: Doubt Dogs IT On Security Tools, Spending

2/10/2017
The Ponemon Institute shows how IT security staffs want better technology tools and better skill sets to ward off invasive threats.
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Microsoft Earnings Report Can't Disguise Amazon Cloud Size

2/8/2017
Google and Microsoft are sometimes portrayed as overtaking Amazon Web Services; better read between the lines.
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It's Still 'Intel Inside', But Now Intel's Inside The Cloud

2/1/2017
Intel re-architects x86 toward the needs of the cloud, builds in management features for large scale server power savings.
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