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 2012

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Google Compute Engine Ignores VMware, Microsoft Users

6/29/2012
Google's new cloud infrastructure service is geared to Linux workloads running in KVM. What does that mean for VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix users?
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Google App Engine Gets Ready For Business

6/27/2012
Google platform now hosts one million active applications; Release 1.7.0, unveiled at Google I/O, to add business-friendly features.
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Red Hat Shifts Into Gear With OpenShift

6/26/2012
Red Hat's new version of platform-as-a-service, MegaShift, supports the complex version of Java. Many developers are finding an advantage in that compared to VMware's Cloud Foundry.
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Google Compute Engine Challenges Amazon

6/26/2012
At Google I/O, Google Compute Engine debuts, bringing Google into more direct competition with infrastructure-as-a-service market leader Amazon Web Services. But don't forget about Microsoft.
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State Street Private Cloud: $600 Million Savings Goal

6/22/2012
If everyone writes software for the same cloud-based development platform, code sharing becomes easier, and State Street has to write dramatically less code, saving big on software development. Take a look at the plan.
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Great Open Source Cloud Debate Rages

6/22/2012
One, and only one, open source project usually gains the upper hand in a new software category, but cloud has three tough contenders in OpenStack, CloudStack, and Eucalyptus. Must one win?
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Virtustream Boosts Hybrid Cloud Security

6/21/2012
XStream 2.0's public-private cloud communication encryption meets credit card industry, Department of Defense security standards.
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Startup Taps Virtualization To Stop Security Threats

6/20/2012
Bromium takes the "trust no one" tactic, uses micro-virtualization to secure the network against potential threats introduced by users.
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HP Low-Energy Servers For Data Centers, Take Two

6/19/2012
HP used Intel's Atom Centerton chip to produce a 6-watt Gemini server line, which will become available by year's end..
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NASA Drops OpenStack For Amazon Cloud

6/18/2012
Space agency touts Amazon cost savings to explain why it's no longer using the OpenStack open source cloud project it co-founded.
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Amazon Defended After June 14 Cloud Outage

6/18/2012
Latest Amazon Web Services outage prompts complaints from critics, customers. But Amazon supporters say incident simply shows need to use multiple availability zones.
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Yahoo And Hadoop: In It For The Long Term

6/15/2012
Yahoo made an early bet that it could use Hadoop to monetize the big data the content site was collecting. Now it's betting the company on it.
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VMware Launches Open Source Project To Virtualize Hadoop

6/13/2012
VMware's Serengeti aims to allow the popular, big data handling system to run in virtualized environments.
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Bluelock Lets Customers See Cloud Charges, Control Bills

6/12/2012
VMware supplier's tool is designed to prevent cloud bill shock by telling customers what their bill will be and how to adjust usage to stay within the monthly budget.
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Cloud's Big Caveat: Runaway Costs

6/5/2012
Enterprises want more tools to guard against unpredictable costs--like the bill that arose when one team accidentally left a server cluster turned on for a long weekend. Fourth in our series on cloud computing pricing.
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Why Cloud Pricing Comparisons Are So Hard

6/5/2012
Cloud infrastructure market doesn't have a standard unit of computing power, which makes it tough to stack up Amazon, Microsoft, and Rackspace offerings. Third in our series on cloud computing pricing.
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