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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 March 2011

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Cisco To Acquire NewScale For Cloud Self-Provisioning

3/30/2011
The addition of a service catalog and self-service portal will make Cisco into more of a private cloud supplier.
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VMware Moves Into Hybrid Cloud Management

3/27/2011
With vCenter Operations, internal and external virtual machines get system configuration, performance management, and capacity management under VMware's umbrella.
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Nimbula Readies Cloud OS Launch

3/27/2011
Director operating system will enable providers to build out a cloud infrastructure like Amazon's EC2, then extend it with their own brand of added services, the firm announced at Cloud Connect.
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Cloud Security Challenges Include Audit Trails, Preventing Attacks

3/24/2011
How to build an effective Security Operations Center to cope with new threats in the era of virtualization and cloud computing will be a major topic at the upcoming Connections Conference in Las Vegas in April.
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NASA CTO For IT's Departure Highlights Fed's Cloud Challenges

3/24/2011
Chris Kemp was a force behind the government's Nebula cloud, and it isn't clear how fast the federal cloud computing effort will move forward after his departure.
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RPath Simplifies Building Workloads For Data Center, Cloud

3/22/2011
Operating system expertise is combined with a cross-hypervisor approach to offer a "service factory" for the visual assembly of software stacks.
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Microsoft System Center Adds Private Cloud Portal

3/22/2011
Concero, introduced at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, will be able to deploy Hyper-V virtual machines to Windows Servers internally or to the Windows Azure cloud.
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MongoDB 1.8 Adds Journaling

3/17/2011
The NoSQL database system for handling big data as documents adds several features beyond the much-requested "write-ahead" journaling, including covered and sparse indexes.
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Cloud Becoming A Major Disaster Recovery Strategy

3/17/2011
In the wake of the Japan earthquake and tsunami, Nirvanix, Equinix, and other cloud companies are offering a helping hand to companies disrupted by -- or concerned about -- natural disasters.
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HP Poised To Capitalize On Apple, Amazon Lessons

3/16/2011
CEO Leo Apotheker may be on the verge of leveraging HP's core competencies in a way that few organizations can, thanks to its new focus on the cloud.
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Amazon Extends Private Cloud Capabilities

3/15/2011
Customers have the option to connect to Amazon Web Services by setting up a virtual network within the cloud, eliminating the need to use a virtual private network.
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HP Goes All In On The Cloud

3/14/2011
CEO Leo Apotheker details the company's plans to offer data synching, security, and other services that work from the end user device to the data center.
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Werner Vogels Sees A Thousand Platforms Blooming

3/11/2011
Amazon's CTO envisions the EC2 infrastructure turning into a service platform, not just a source of compute cycles.
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Nimbula Readies Cloud OS Launch

3/10/2011
Director operating system will enable providers to build out a cloud infrastructure like Amazon's EC2, then extend it with their own brand of added services, the firm announced at Cloud Connect.
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Cloud Computing Savings From Shutting Down

3/10/2011
Forrester Research analyst said at Cloud Connect you're guaranteed to save money in the cloud simply by scaling your workload based on demand.
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VMware Moves Into Hybrid Cloud Management

3/8/2011
With vCenter Operations, internal and external virtual machines get system configuration, performance management, and capacity management under VMware's umbrella.
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Amazon CTO: Cloud Computing's Value In Its Ecosystem

3/8/2011
Werner Vogels said many additional services will be built on top of Amazon's EC2's infrastructure by third parties in his Cloud Connect keynote address.
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Cloud Connect: Netflix Finds Home In Amazon EC2

3/8/2011
The video delivery company couldn't build data centers fast enough to keep pace with growing demand, so it moved operations to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.
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GigaSpaces Launches Multi-Tenant Cloud App Platform

3/4/2011
The Cloud-Enabled Application Platform moves the firm's caching system into the cloud to support multiple, simultaneous applications.
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Microsoft Azure Named Fastest Cloud Service

3/3/2011
CloudSleuth's comparison of 13 cloud services showed a tight race among Microsoft, Google App Engine, GoGrid, Amazon EC2, and Rackspace.
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IBM Extends Tivoli's Management Reach Deeper Into Cloud

3/2/2011
Tivoli Provisioning Manager 7.2 geared to spin up hundreds or thousands of virtual machines an hour in the private cloud.
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Why Sun Microsystems Failed

3/1/2011
Former CEO Scott McNealy's allegiance to Sun's hardware culture shortchanged its software initiatives, and ultimately doomed the company.
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