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 April 2011

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Post Mortem: When Amazon's Cloud Turned On Itself

4/29/2011
For the cloud to be a permanent platform for enterprise computing, it can't be an environment where both computing and errors just occur on a larger scale.
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VMware, Why Are You Buying SlideRocket?

4/28/2011
Acquiring the presentation software company and pushing into end-user apps seems strange, but the virtualization firm's new VP of apps insists it's core to what they do.
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Amazon Cloud Outage Proves Importance Of Failover Planning

4/27/2011
Contingency plans kept Bizo and Mashery up and running during the Amazon service outage, offering lessons to other cloud-based businesses.
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How To Build A Modern Data Center

4/27/2011
Borrowing ideas from Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, Vantage is building three wholesale data centers in Santa Clara that focus on energy efficiency.
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Oracle President Safra Catz Adds CFO Duties

4/25/2011
Jeff Epstein has resigned as CFO, a job he had held since August 2008 when he took over the post from Catz.
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Cloud Expertise Featured At Interop

4/23/2011
The conference will offer a wide variety of panel discussions, keynotes, and workshops from the likes of CloudScaling, Microsoft, Rackspace, and other leading vendors and analysts.
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Cloud Takes A Hit: Amazon Must Fix EC2

4/22/2011
Amazon's "availability zones" were a key protective concept for the cloud, but they failed to protect access to data when EC2 went down.
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PHP Language Gets Fault-Tolerant Development Platform

4/20/2011
Zend Technologies will supply the tools and development environment in partnership with RightScale, which will provide application deployment to multiple clouds.
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Accenture: High Tech Firms Need Multiple Business Models

4/15/2011
One-size-fits-all won't work any more. A tech company may need 4-5 business models to survive.
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HP To Transform Legacy Applications In The Cloud

4/14/2011
Suite of services aims to help modernize aging mainframe systems to achieve more streamlined operations, greater flexibility, and more innovation.
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Accenture Sees High Tech Firms Moving To Multiple Business Models

4/12/2011
Big technology firms like the monolithic business model they're familiar with; Accenture says they'll need five.
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VMware Builds Cloud For App Developers

4/11/2011
Developers using Microsoft's Azure cloud and Google's App Engine cloud are the main target of VMware's Cloud Foundry platform as a service.
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Facebook Challenges With Green, Open Source Data Center

4/7/2011
CEO Zuckerberg unveiled how the firm borrowed key design principles from its predecessors, while at the same time advancing the state of the art.
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HP Adds Egenera Blade Management To Battle Cisco

4/7/2011
The partnership with Egenera allows HP to add more converged networking expertise and improved disaster recovery for data centers.
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IBM Forecasts $7 Billion In Cloud Revenue

4/6/2011
The firm is plunging fully into the cloud, launching a range of cloud services tuned to the needs of enterprise users.
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The Real Cloud Imperative Is Greater Simplicity

4/5/2011
Making it sound simple is not the same thing as making it simple; there's work to be done to get users into the cloud.
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IEEE Targets Cloud Interoperability Standards

4/4/2011
The engineering organization aims to develop a cloud portability roadmap and interoperability standards, while breaking down single-vendor formats.
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