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.

Apps To Unite Smartphones, IoT

4/30/2015
The Internet of Things is an expansion of mobile device uses, not a separate, new development, Soasta's Tana Jackson says at Cloud Connect.
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Google's Urs Hoelzle: Cloud Will Soon Be More Secure

4/30/2015
Google's chief data center architect, Urs Hoelzle, says cloud security will improve faster than enterprise security in the next few years.
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Wal-Mart CIO Karenann Terrell: Data Analysis Key To Customer Insights

4/29/2015
After leaving a healthcare firm, Karenann Terrell, the CIO of mega-retailer Wal-Mart, found that data analysis at the company is "at a much higher level of sophistication than I had expected."
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Esurance Puts Analytics Closer To The Customer

4/28/2015
A new rules-engine platform lets the insurance company offer more personalized packages when selling policies online. One of eight Elite 100 Business Innovation award winners.
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PayPal Revamps Data Center For Agility

4/28/2015
PayPal can deploy new products seven times faster with its new approach, plus it's finding recruiting talent easier. One of eight Elite 100 Business Innovation award winners.
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Boeing, eBay Data Centers Look More Like Cloud

4/28/2015
eBay and Boeing, two major builders of new enterprise data centers, explain what they looked for in new architecture at the InformationWeek 100 event.
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Salesforce Adds HR To Its Online Suite

4/24/2015
Salesforce for HR internalizes customer relationship management so employers can improve relations with their employees.
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Amazon AWS Revenue Reveals Cloud Powerhouse

4/23/2015
In its first quarter 2015 results, Amazon reported that its AWS cloud unit is growing fast and is either already profitable or soon could be.
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Will Amazon Cloud Revenue Show A Giant Is Born?

4/23/2015
Amazon.com is slated to air financial details on its AWS unit for the first time, perhaps showing the cloud service is growing even faster than expected.
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ServiceNow Offers Service Platform, Opens Store

4/22/2015
ServiceNow, the IT help desk automation company, is making its platform available to customers and third parties in order to launch their own SaaS apps.
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Time Inc. CTO Navigates Move To Amazon

4/22/2015
CTO Colin Bodell wants to move Time out of its five data centers and onto the Amazon cloud. The technical and cultural shift is well underway.
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Microsoft Offers Azure Service Fabric For Distributed Apps

4/21/2015
Microsoft will show off Azure Service Fabric at its Build Conference next week. It will help developers build microservice-based applications.
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VMware Rides Container Wave With Open Source Projects

4/20/2015
VMware's launching two projects: Lightwave focuses on container security, and Photon creates a lightweight Linux version for containers.
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Google Adds To BigQuery Big Data Capabilities

4/20/2015
Google expands the capabilities of its BigQuery system to allow real-time data stream processing and event analysis.
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Docker 1.6 Emerges As A Platform

4/17/2015
Several components of Docker, including Engine, Registry, and orchestration tools, have been upgraded together as a platform.
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Engine Yard Pivots Toward Container Management

4/16/2015
New Engine Yard CEO Beau Vrolyk is moving the company toward managing Linux containers for developers, with the acquisition of OpDemand.
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HP's Still In Public Cloud, But Where?

4/15/2015
HP's Bill Hilf has rebutted the interpretation of his New York Times statements about the company's public cloud plans, but where does that leave Helion versus Amazon?
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Docker Raises $95 Million In 4th VC Round

4/14/2015
Goldman Sachs was urged by its IT department to become a Docker investor.
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Microsoft Brings Docker Containers To Azure, .Net Developers

4/13/2015
In an interview, the general manager of Microsoft Windows Servers says two types of containers will run under the next version of Windows Server, with Docker functionality.
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Amazon Launches Machine Learning-As-A-Service

4/10/2015
AWS's Andy Jassy announced a Machine Learning service at an Amazon Summit in San Francisco April 9, based on the parent retailer's internal use.
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'Let's Encrypt' Will Try To Secure The Internet

4/9/2015
The Linux Foundation has lined up financial support for a group producing an easier way to encrypt Web site and mobile device traffic.
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VMware Adds 8th vCloud Data Center, In Melbourne

4/8/2015
VMware already has one data center in Tokyo, and is considering adding more in Asia. The new facilities will offer Google services through the companies' new partnership.
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Piston Shift Shows OpenStack's Evolving Role

4/8/2015
Piston has refocused on an operating system that will orchestrate containers, big data clusters as well as OpenStack virtual servers.
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CoreOS Launches Container Management On Google's Kubernetes Project

4/6/2015
CoreOS is founder of the Rocket container project, but the system promises to manage Docker and Rocket formats.
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Will Docker Bring Workload Mobility Between Clouds?

4/2/2015
Docker is moving into orchestrating an application's server and networking. Does that supplement cloud function or replace it?
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Amazon Bulks Up Cloud Instances For Big Data

4/1/2015
Amazon Web Services' larger virtual servers show the company is pursuing an enterprise-scale data warehouse and big data tasks.
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