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 May 2015

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Meeker: Internet Has Only Begun Changing Our Lives

5/28/2015
Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker presents her annual take on how the Internet is changing business, as US and China dominate among Web companies.
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EMC Buys Virtustream To Expand Its Cloud Offerings

5/26/2015
EMC will apply Virtustream's cloud software and managed hosting expertise across its businesses, including VMware.
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Intel Gives Virtual Machines Container-Like Speed

5/26/2015
Intel hopes its hardware hooks and software shortcuts provide container speed while keeping virtual machine security.
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Clouds Ready For Enterprise? Gartner Says Few Are

5/22/2015
Amazon's innovations and services give it an edge with enterprises, while Microsoft, Google, IBM, VMware, and CenturyLink nip at its heels.
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Gartner Doubles Estimate Of Amazon Cloud Dominance

5/20/2015
In Gartner's fifth Magic Quadrant on cloud infrastructure services, Amazon extends lead, while Microsoft and Google try to keep up.
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Linux Container Operating Systems: Thin Is In

5/19/2015
From CoreOS to Atomic Host to Photon, a new breed of Linux operating system is slimming down in order to run containers. Will all of them survive?
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Amazon Seeks Next Generation Of Cloud Users

5/18/2015
AWS has launched AWS Educate, an online service with self-paced labs, tutorials, and best practices for educators and students.
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Cloud Foundry Pros & Cons

5/15/2015
Cloud Foundry has a mixed container message, but that's not keeping it from sailing full speed ahead into Fortune 500 data centers.
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GE Prepares For Industrial Internet With Cloud Foundry

5/13/2015
Analysis of big data from industrial machines is creating new business models, but GE Software CTO Harel Kodesh sees even more disruptive business models on their way.
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Open Source Platform Opens Arms To Microsoft's .Net

5/12/2015
This latest move from Cloud Foundry signals how the cloud is forcing old rivalries to fall away.
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IBM Bluemix Welcomes Microsoft's .Net

5/11/2015
IBM's Bluemix is adding the .Net languages, allowing Bluemix Cloud Foundry users to mix Microsoft, open source, and IBM technologies.
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'Father Time' Still Negotiating The Future

5/11/2015
Harlan Stenn, chief maintainer of the Network Time Protocol, remains in limbo between full-time NTP work and a return to private consulting.
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Controversial Lennart Poettering Finds His Place In Linux Community

5/8/2015
The systemd developer produced an initialization system that no one liked, but everyone adopted for use with Linux containers. Are his days as a target over?
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Docker Monitoring: New Relic Takes On The Challenge

5/6/2015
The new application performance monitoring platform is more in sync with companies building applications as microservices.
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8 Linux Security Improvements In 8 Years

5/6/2015
Linux started getting really serious about security in 2007, and it has made big strides in the past three years. As open source code faces more threats, Linux can't rest on its laurels.
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Google, Twitter, Red Hat Speak Up For Container Standard

5/5/2015
They're supporting a CoreOS standard as a "composable" piece that can help developers, but they also noted areas where the standard needs work.
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CoreOS: Container Standards Needed

5/4/2015
Google, VMware, Red Hat, and Apcera are backing CoreOS's container specification, appc, as an industry standard.
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Signs Point To A Coming Post-Cloud Era

5/4/2015
CenturyLink CTO Jared Wray, Intel's Nicholas Weaver, and others at Interop talk about a future where the cloud is just how we all compute.
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