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.

CoreOS Unveils Linux Containers As A Service

6/30/2014
New version of Linux for the containerization of cloud servers is now available on a monthly subscription basis.
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Google I/O: Hello Dataflow, Goodbye MapReduce

6/27/2014
Google introduces Dataflow to handle streams and batches of big data, replacing MapReduce and challenging other public cloud services.
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Google I/O: Android Interface, Cloud Advances Star

6/26/2014
Day one of Google I/O lacked skydivers but delivered new APIs, tools, and connectivity to push Google's mobile device and cloud capabilities forward.
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Joyent Joins Containers Debate

6/25/2014
Joyent's SmartDataCenter 7 package offers on-premises provisioning and management of containers and virtual machines. Watch out, OpenStack?
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Cloud Migration Turbulence Continues, Survey Says

6/24/2014
Many companies are "flying blind" in their efforts to embrace the cloud, a VMware-sponsored survey says.
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Cloud Trends To Watch: Structure 2014

6/23/2014
What's going on with jostling among Cloud Foundry, Docker, VMware, and Red Hat? Structure conference yielded several surprising conclusions.
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Rackspace Touts Containers On Bare Metal Servers

6/20/2014
Rackspace lets customers run Linux containers on bare metal servers for maximum efficiency. Customer Pantheon shares interesting results.
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Amazon's Vogels: Sensitive Data Vs. Snowden Fear

6/19/2014
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, at Structure 2014 conference, disputes notion that holders of sensitive data will reject cloud after Snowden revelations.
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Cloud Contracts: 8 Questions To Ask

6/19/2014
What should you look for in a cloud contract? What's hiding in cloud providers' service-level agreements and terms? Read our expert guide.
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Amazon, Google Spar Over SSDs In Cloud

6/18/2014
Amazon makes solid state disks its default storage offering for running workloads in the cloud. Is Google ready to match that move?
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CloudHealth Finds Path To Amazon Savings

6/17/2014
CloudHealth Technologies tracks usage of Amazon Web Services and recommends ways to improve service and cut costs.
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VMware VP: Linux Containers Are Complementary

6/13/2014
VMware VP Mathew Lodge talks hybrid cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Docker containers.
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What Docker Means For VMware, Cloud

6/12/2014
Docker containers, backed by an unlikely group of allies, are suddenly the talk of the cloud community. What do containers represent in terms of IT's existing investment in VMware?
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GoGrid Emerges As Cloud's Big Data Specialist

6/11/2014
GoGrid founder John Keagy says company's IaaS architecture, designed for big data, provides higher performance than other clouds.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: What's New

6/10/2014
Red Hat's Enterprise Linux Release 7 will support XFS files, Active Directory, and Docker containers.
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Docker 1.0 Backed By IBM, Red Hat, Rackspace

6/10/2014
Industry heavyweights line up at inaugural DockerCon user conference to support Docker as the de facto standard for Linux containers.
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Docker 1.0 Linux Container System Takes Big Step

6/9/2014
Docker CEO Ben Golub announces commercial support for a "production-ready" version of Docker, the defacto standard for Linux containers.
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Equinix CIO Talks Data Center Insights

6/9/2014
Equinix CIO Brian Lillie will join InformationWeek Radio Tuesday to discuss data center design and the importance of bringing many communication carriers into one facility. Join us.
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VMware Launches Analytics For Healthcare Providers

6/6/2014
VMware's first vertical industry system collects key data from electronic medical records software and then analyzes performance.
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Feds Need Cloud Procurement Standards

6/5/2014
Federal agencies should develop a common way to evaluate services and prices offered by cloud service providers, says TechAmerica Foundation.
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Gartner's Magic Quadrant 2014 For Cloud: Winners & Losers

6/4/2014
Gartner's annual graphic of competitive positioning among tech providers reflects challenges for Rackspace, Dimension Data, and some other vendors.
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VMware Fires Back At Amazon 'Import Portal'

6/4/2014
Amazon threatens VMware turf with a new Connector and Import Portal. VMware's response: Not true hybrid cloud.
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Amazon Opens On-Ramp For VMware Workloads

6/3/2014
Amazon Web Services makes a bid for VMware-based workloads by giving vCenter virtual machine admins a direct link to its EC2 cloud.
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IBM Bluemix Gets DevOps Muscle

6/2/2014
IBM refreshes its Bluemix platform-as-a-service in a bid to attract more agile and DevOps developers for its SoftLayer unit.
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6 Models Of The Modern Data Center

6/2/2014
Our exclusive look inside the new data centers of Fidelity, GM, Capital One, Equinix, ServiceNow, and Bank Of America shows the future of computing.
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