Profile of Charles Babcock

Editor at Large, Cloud Member Since: 11/15/2013
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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.

HPE Injects New 'Persistent' Memory Into Server Race

3/31/2016
HP Enterprise is bringing out its Gen9 Proliant servers with a non-volatile form of memory modules that extend server memory.
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How The Network Time Foundation Uses Its Funding

3/29/2016
The Network Time Foundation saw a big jump in funding in 2015. While it's a step in the right direction, there's still much work ahead to shore up the open source Network Time Protocol (NTP) that synchronizes computer clocks around the world. Here's where the money is going, and what's still needed.
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IBM Opens Fourth Bluemix 'Garage' In France

3/28/2016
Developers can use IBM's latest cloud development tools and practices, including Watson analytical services, in Bluemix Garages.
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Harlan Stenn Tackles NTP Security Issues As Big Move Looms

3/28/2016
There's not a business in existence today whose operations don't rely on the Network Time Protocol (NTP). Harlan Stenn is the chief maintainer of NTP. In the past year, security researchers have raised a number of concerns about the protocol, which Stenn is addressing even as he prepares a move of half the NTP infrastructure. Here's why it matters.
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Microsoft, HP Help Pump $73M Into Mesosphere's Container Management

3/25/2016
Mesosphere unveils two new products as tech giants, including Microsoft and HP, and venture funders bet that its Data Center Operating System will play an important role in container orchestration.
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Oracle Will Put Its Cloud On Your Premises

3/24/2016
Oracle Cloud at Customer is designed to match what's in the Oracle Cloud with infrastructure running on customers' premises, managed by Oracle.
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HP Enterprise Leads As Cloud Supplier, Report Finds

3/24/2016
The cloud infrastructure market is growing at 20% annually, and HP Enterprise is the primary supplier of servers and storage, according to a new report from Synergy Research.
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Red Hat Crosses $2 Billion Mark, Sees Strong 2017

3/23/2016
Red Hat in fiscal year 2016 became the first open source company ever to reach $2 billion in revenue, only four years after it reached the $1 billion mark.
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CoreOS Offers Automated Security Checks As A Service

3/22/2016
Clair 1.0 is ready for production use to make containers more secure. Also, new threats will be added to its vulnerabilities database.
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Enterprise Invests More In Software-Defined Data Centers

3/22/2016
When it comes to software-defined infrastructure, a 451 Research survey finds financial services and healthcare lead the field as prime implementers, while retail continues to lag.
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As Docker Turns 3, CEO Predicts Unabated Growth

3/21/2016
Not even VMware invaded the data center as quickly as open source container supplier Docker has in its first three years. In an interview with InformationWeek, CEO Ben Golub offers his vision for the future.
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Amazon Cloud Turns 10: How It's Changed

3/18/2016
Could anyone have anticipated the size of the digital economy that would grow around AWS's S3 storage service when it launched a decade ago?
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IoT Bringing Changes To Company Networks, Big Data Projects

3/17/2016
The Internet of Things is big, and only getting bigger. A new report from Ovum suggestions now is the time IT needs to get networks ready to collect all this data, and use it to business advantage.
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AWS Service Migrates 1,000 Database Systems Into Cloud

3/16/2016
The AWS Database Migration Service, which the company announced in October, officially came out of preview phase on March 15, after importing 1,000 on-premises database systems.
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OpenWhisk Vies With AWS Lambda As Developer Service

3/14/2016
IBM's OpenWhisk is a new event-driven service for hosting and running developer's microservices that's designed to compete with AWS Lambda.
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Open Compute Gains Switch OS, Storage, Rack Contributions

3/11/2016
The Open Compute Project took several steps toward its goal of creating a set of building blocks for the modern data center with advances announced at its 2016 US Summit.
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Equinix Joins Open Compute Project, Adopts Wedge Switch

3/11/2016
Equinix looks to build out an open source customer ecosystem based on the Open Compute Project and Facebook's Wedge switch in its 145 data center hubs.
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Velostrata Launches Hybrid Cloud With Split Personality

3/10/2016
The startup opens up a new avenue of hybrid cloud computing: a strong partnership between on-premises data storage and the cheap, expansive power of cloud servers.
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Docker Claims Performance Advantage Over Kubernetes

3/9/2016
Docker had its Swarm orchestration product tested against Kubernetes and claims the results show a 5X advantage in speed to initiation.
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LinkedIn Makes Its WhereHows Data Manager Open Source

3/4/2016
LinkedIn couldn't find a data set tracker to match all the data sets it was creating, so it invented one, WhereHows. The social network then made it open source.
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Amazon Recalls Power Adapter As Shock Hazard

3/3/2016
Amazon has issued a recall for the plug-in power adapters that recharge the Kindle Fire 7 and Kids Edition because the assembly may break.
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VMware Executives Departing Ahead Of Dell Merger

3/2/2016
Over the last month, VMware has lost its CFO, its COO, and a networking expert. It's all part of the reality of adjusting to Dell finalizing its acquisition of EMC.
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Shippable Deploys Containers In Multiple Directions

3/1/2016
The Docker-based deployment pipeline can direct containers to Amazon, Azure, Google Compute Platform, or on-premises, depending on the user's wish.
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