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 April 2014

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ServiceNow Pushes Beyond Automation

4/30/2014
IT automation firm ServiceNow will offer services for HR, finance, legal, and other parts of the enterprise.
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Apprenda, Microsoft Team For Hybrid PaaS

4/29/2014
Microsoft hedges its bets on containers with an alliance that brings Apprenda customers to Azure under an on-premises license.
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Amazon Faces Profit Pressure: Honeymoon Over?

4/28/2014
Amazon touts growth, but investor patience grows thin as shareholders search for a sign of profits.
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Ukraine Tech Firms Seek Work Amid Turmoil

4/28/2014
Lezgro, a 50-person IT outsourcing firm, urges Western companies to move IT work from Russia to Ukraine to take advantage of country's tech talent.
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Pure Storage Battles Industry Giants

4/24/2014
Storage startup raises more funds to disrupt industry with its SSD arrays.
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IBM Unveils Power8 Chip As Open Hardware

4/23/2014
Google and other OpenPower Foundation partners express interest in IBM's Power8 chip designs and server motherboard specs.
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Red Hat Containers OS-Centric: No Accident

4/22/2014
Red Hat's critics say containers are the wrong idea, and too focused on the operating system. I say maybe Red Hat knows a thing or two about pleasing developers.
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OpenStack's French Connection: eNovance

4/18/2014
Little-known firm in France emerges as one of the top customizers of OpenStack clouds.
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Red Hat Linux Containers: Not Just Recycled Ideas

4/17/2014
Red Hat and its partner, Docker, bring DevOps characteristics to Linux containers, making them lighter-weight vehicles than virtual machines for cloud workloads.
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Red Hat Touts Linux Containers For Cloud

4/16/2014
Red Hat teams with Docker, urges developers to consider Linux-based containers as a lightweight alternative to virtual machine files for moving workloads to the cloud.
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IBM Launches Disaster Recovery Via SoftLayer

4/16/2014
Virtual Server Recovery is now available through IBM's SoftLayer unit; resiliency services to come.
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VMware Offers Disaster Recovery As A Service

4/15/2014
VMware disaster recovery service lets customers automatically replicate business systems and data in one of VMware's five vCloud Hybrid Service datacenters.
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Square Raids Amazon For Lead Engineer

4/15/2014
Square hires Alyssa Henry, VP of storage services for Amazon Web Services, in latest move to build staff with executives from prominent web and Silicon Valley firms.
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DevOps: A Culture Shift, Not A Technology

4/14/2014
Andi Mann, author and VP at CA Technologies, says DevOps is a horrible term but a necessary IT culture change.
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Netflix Cloud Architect: How To Succeed As Disruptor

4/10/2014
Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix's former chief cloud architect, outlines how a changed business flowed out of the cloud.
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Can IBM Sell Mainframe As Cloud Rock Star?

4/9/2014
On the mainframe's 50th birthday, IBM positions it as the still young Enterprise Cloud System, capable of running 6,000 Linux workloads.
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Unisys Stealth Makes Sensitive Data Go Dark

4/8/2014
Can you make data invisible to intruders? Unisys Stealth system creates a community around sensitive data and encrypts communications between all users.
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HP Unleashes CloudSystem 8 For Private, Hybrid Clouds

4/7/2014
HP's converged cloud system hits general availability to enable private clouds that work with VMware and hybrid clouds that rely on OpenStack.
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Chief Digital Officer: Where CIO & CMO Meet

4/3/2014
Marketing and IT don't need to conflict. Extreme Networks CMO explains how the two can leverage each other's strengths to build a better digital business.
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What Is Platform-As-A-Service? Experts Disagree

4/2/2014
Is PaaS just a feature of general-purpose infrastructure-as-a-service or a distinct layer of products in the cloud? Experts debate the definition of PaaS at Cloud Connect.
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PG&E Delivers On Promise Of Smart Meters

4/2/2014
Pacific Gas & Electric analyzes new information from meters to better cope with times of peak energy usage. One of eight profiles of InformationWeek Elite 100 Business Innovation Award winners.
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Microsoft Battles Google, Amazon In Cloud Price War

4/1/2014
Microsoft has dropped its cloud service prices in response to recent cuts by Google and Amazon. Will Rackspace be next?
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