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 2016

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IBM Introduces 3 General-Purpose Flash Arrays

4/29/2016
Flash storage is maturing, and the latest products are taking on a more general-purpose storage function. To meet those needs, IBM introduced three such arrays this week.
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Solar Impulse Flight Makes Silicon Valley Stopover

4/29/2016
Bertrand Piccard, the pilot of the Solar Impulse 2 plane that recently flew from Hawaii to San Francisco, says more radical thinking is needed on energy.
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Microsoft, HPE Back Mesosphere As It Open Sources DC/OS

4/28/2016
As Mesosphere is opening sourcing its Data Center Operating System (DC/OS), several major tech firms, including Microsoft and HPE, are backing this alternative container standard.
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VMware, Pivotal Offer Stack For Next-Gen Applications

4/27/2016
The Pivotal Cloud Foundry development stack has been integrated with the VMware Photon Platform so that the two can produce and host micro-service applications.
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93 Million Mexican Voter Database Exposed On Amazon Cloud

4/26/2016
A MongoDB database filled with the personal information of 93 million Mexican voters was found configured improperly on the Amazon cloud. The incident raises issues of how information is protected in the cloud.
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Identity Management: Where Cloud Security Falls Short

4/25/2016
A report by the Cloud Security Alliance finds that identity management tools and processes are key to ameliorating the threat of breaches. The report reveals which tools are most popular, and which are underutilized.
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AWS Summit: New Cloud Services, Expanded EBS Choices

4/22/2016
Amazon Web Services unveiled a security inspection and data transfer acceleration service, along with two new EBS options, at AWS Summit.
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GE Oil & Gas Finds Amazon Use Lowers TCO 52%

4/21/2016
At the Amazon Summit in Chicago, the CTO of GE Oil & Gas said his unit is exploring ways to better understand and save with the AWS platform.
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Microsoft Gains In SaaS Market, Report Finds

4/20/2016
Synergy Research assessed the growth of SaaS in 2015, and found it more mature than other cloud services -- and ready for an even greater takeoff. In addition, the report showed Microsoft may be one company poised for significant growth.
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Startup Diamanti Offers Combined Container Networking, Storage

4/19/2016
Diamanti, a startup founded by Cisco UCS veterans, has built an appliance for automated container deployments with preconfigured networking and storage. The firm is just out of stealth mode.
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Cloud Stampede Is On, But Who's Watching Security?

4/18/2016
A survey by Intel and the Cloud Security Alliance finds that the use of cloud services is increasing, but more in-depth security measures are needed.
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Cloud Adoption Could Save Feds $10 Billion Annually

4/15/2016
A MeriTalk survey of federal IT managers reveals that they believe the government can save more than $10 billion annually from additional consolidation and cloud adoption.
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'Cloud-First' To Close 5,000 Federal Data Centers By 2019

4/14/2016
A GAO report on the federal government's "cloud-first" policy cites past and future data center closures, suggests savings slow to materialize.
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Amazon Names New CEOs: What It Means

4/13/2016
Amazon says that promoting Andy Jassy and Jeff Wilke to new CEO roles is not a reorganization. But does this foreshadow more independence for AWS?
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Public Cloud Services Beat Out Private, IDC Finds

4/13/2016
IDC's Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker projects 48% of IT spend will be in cloud infrastructure by 2020. Public services lead private cloud.
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Red Hat, QCT Partner On OpenStack Hardware System

4/11/2016
Quanta Cloud Technology is teaming with Red Hat to produce a ready-to-plug-in package of OpenStack, Linux, and Ceph storage loaded on Quanta servers, storage, and switches.
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Amazon Echo: A Rising Rock Star?

4/11/2016
Amazon's Echo device and its Alexa digital assistant are changing the consumer online shopping experience and integrating it into the home.
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Amazon Is Defining, Not Chasing, Future Consumers

4/8/2016
Through innovations like Prime and Prime Now, plus its AWS business, Amazon is not merely changing the nature of the consumer marketplace -- it's helping shape it.
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