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 March 2012
3/30/2012
Verizon cloud unit uses technology from CloudSwitch acquisition to make it easy for reluctant cloud users to migrate in and out of infrastructure-as-a-service.
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3/29/2012
Music Mastermind, Coupa Software share why they turned to more than one cloud services supplier. Yes, you can mix and match Amazon and Rackspace.
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3/28/2012
Highly secure, highly networked Equinix facilities in Secaucus, N.J. and Chicago let enterprise customers install their own server racks, then manage them as private infrastructure-as-a-service operations.
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3/28/2012
Red Hat survives challenges from CentOS and Oracle to post revenues of $1.13 billion in fiscal 2012.
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3/22/2012
Partnership with Eucalyptus, the open-source purveyor of Amazon APIs, guarantees ongoing compatibility between public EC2 and private cloud operations.
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3/22/2012
$800 million deal with travel industry leader replaces
rivals' aging equipment with HP's latest virtualized, converged
systems.
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3/21/2012
Oracle announced third quarter gains Tuesday. But while it focuses on SAP, nimble rivals such as Salesforce.com and WorkDay loom large.
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3/20/2012
EMC buys Pivotal Labs, launches Greenplum Chorus to give data scientists social networking features.
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3/16/2012
Parade of CIOs at CloudForce shows how social networking inroads are making Salesforce.com a larger part of the IT infrastructure.
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3/14/2012
HP Always on Support will rely more on early diagnostics, less on fixing what's broken.
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3/14/2012
Twitter, Facebook, Salesforce.com, and Google partner gets Silicon Valley's biggest backing yet for a cloud startup.
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3/13/2012
Virtualization awareness, new file system, better memory management added to Oracle's optimized Linux for database operations.
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3/11/2012
Microsoft's post-mortem on recent Azure cloud outage says a deep Azure security mechanism contained a bug that didn't recognize Leap Day. This set off a cascade of false hardware failure notices.
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3/8/2012
Earlier this week, Amazon slashed cloud costs. Now Microsoft lowers entry-level pricing, offers slightly larger server instances to woo new customers.
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3/6/2012
Chips used to be all about clock speeds and shrinking circuit size. But Intel's newest chips for data center servers are all about networking, I/O, and data movement, in the age of virtualization.
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3/6/2012
Amazon Web Services lowers prices 5% to 37%, reducing the cost of an entry level compute unit and enticing largest customers with volume deals.
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3/5/2012
Is defective security certificate from a third party to blame for Azure outage? Microsoft won't say yet.
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