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 June 2011

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Telco Moves Into Cloud Services

6/30/2011
Dimension Data, a unit of Japan's NTT, picks up operational expertise and a software stack by acquiring infrastructure as a service and managed hosting services provider OpSource.
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Apigee: A Speed Lane To Safer Mobile Purchasing

6/30/2011
Apigee's API management system makes it simpler for even small companies to implement PCI-compliant APIs--a vital requirement for mobile commerce transactions.
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DotCloud: The Cloud's New Developer Hotshot?

6/28/2011
What does the winner of Structure 2011's startup competition have that Google App Engine, Force.com, and Heroku don't?
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Hadoop Big Data Startup Spins Out Of Yahoo

6/28/2011
Startup Hortonworks will bring developers, plus a capital infusion from Yahoo, to speed up development of the open source code for big data analysis.
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Domino Sugar Wins Big With SAP In Cloud

6/27/2011
Apps running with greater reliability than they did in-house, CIO says--and IT's budget down 30%. Here's a look at Domino's sweet cloud arrangement.
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Oracle Records First-Ever $10 Billion Quarter

6/24/2011
Software vendor adds 800 sales-related jobs to pursue larger share of customers' software budgets; hardware sales still a sore point.
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Your Company's Next Secret Weapon: Cloud APIs

6/24/2011
Netflix beat Blockbuster using a smart API strategy--and more companies can now do the same to undermine rivals, said cloud experts at Structure 2011 conference.
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Microsoft's New Cloud Chief Dismisses Sales Scare Talk

6/23/2011
Satya Nadella, in his first public appearance since taking over for Microsoft's Bob Muglia, said that the cloud age equals a sales opportunity for Microsoft, not a threat.
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Virtualization Pioneers Crosby, Pratt Tackle Cloud Security

6/22/2011
Simon Crosby and Ian Pratt resigned from Citrix to found Bromium, a startup that will attack the problem of guaranteeing the security of executing code to protect "the cloud in your pocket."
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'Engineering Cloud' Promises To Modernize Manufacturing

6/21/2011
Fujitsu's specialized cloud computing platform combines on-demand computer-aided design and analytics software with a thin-client environment to offer manufacturers additional product design and production power at an economical entry cost.
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Oracle Buying FatWire To Boost Web, Cloud Engagement

6/21/2011
Fast-growing website personalization and customer loyalty specialist's products will be retooled to work with Oracle middleware and other products.
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Indiana University's 'Personal Clouds' Address Massive Virtualization Challenges

6/20/2011
Citrix selected over VMware for university's 18-month IUAnyWare project to convert its 100,000 end users at eight campuses to using virtualized applications with aim of saving money and delivering better services.
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LexisNexis Takes On Hadoop With Open Source HPCC

6/17/2011
LexisNexis Risk Solutions' High Performance Computing Cluster will be offered as open source code pitting it against Hadoop and other emerging data handling systems.
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VMware Woos Java Developers With vFabric 5

6/13/2011
Jabbing at Micorsoft Azure, VMware offers more middleware flexibility to developers who produce applications for virtualized data centers or the cloud.
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HP Threatens Legal Action Against Oracle On Itanium

6/9/2011
Tension escalates between former partners as HP seeks to force Oracle to continue development for HP Integrity servers.
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User Alliance Wants Cloud Interoperability

6/7/2011
Lockheed Martin, JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and China Life say they'll spend with suppliers that follow the group's requirements.
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HP Improves Its Data Center In A Box

6/6/2011
To boost the manageability of its EcoPod containerized servers, HP added a service aisle for IT staff. Do these power-savvy and space-saving pods beat the competition from the likes of Dell?
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Harris Adds Security To Multi-Tenant Clouds

6/3/2011
The Cyber Integration Center, a data center that incorporates the latest security measures and offers them in a self-service cloud setting, has opened for business, offering a new form on infrastructure as a service.
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RightScale Launches App Store For Infrastructure

6/3/2011
The Multi-Cloud Marketplace offers more than 40,000 RightScale and third party templates to for cloud deployments.
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Oracle's Ellison Denies Home Purchase Report

6/2/2011
Newspapers had reported that the CEO would pay $40 million for the house next door, whose trees are blocking his view of the San Francisco Bay.
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Private Clouds? Business Execs Miss The Point

6/2/2011
Business executives are more interested in building private clouds than taking advantage of the benefits of public clouds, according to an Avanade survey.
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Oracle Lobs $5.3 Million Countersuit At University

6/1/2011
Montclair State's April lawsuit against the vendor alleges the school was left holding the bag for a failed PeopleSoft ERP implementation.
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