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 June 2017

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Air Force Intelligence Unit Goes Agile

6/30/2017
The US Air Force is determined to get more agile to produce applications that can be useful in times of conflict.
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Google Assistant Superior, but Alexa Owns Households

6/28/2017
Alphabet has a shot at winning the smart home device market with Google Home vs. Amazon Alexa, according to an Edison Investment Research report.
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Globally, Chief Digital Officers Start to Take Hold

6/26/2017
A PwC survey of 2,500 leading companies finds 19% have apppointed CDOs, up 300% from the year before.
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Not Doing Big Data in the Cloud? Better Get There

6/23/2017
Forrester Research says competitive advantage will follow big data analytics' move to the cloud; join in, or get left behind.
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Google Knocks on Door of Gartner's Cloud Leaders

6/22/2017
Google is close but still no cigar when it comes to sharing the realm of the cloud leaders in the Gartner IaaS Magic Quadrant.
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Alibaba Edges in as Microsoft, Amazon Grow Stronger

6/20/2017
Gartner's 2017 Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure as a Service shows a newcomer, Chinese supplier Alibaba; Amazon maintains its leadership.
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Blockchain Barges into Insurance via IBM, AIG

6/16/2017
IBM helps AIG create a cross-country, multi-party international risk policy tailored to use blockchain's security and trust.
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Digital Infrastructure for Cities Leads to Big Savings

6/16/2017
A Cisco report claims $2.3 trillion is waiting to be realized through digitized services, city management; cites Houston, Oslo, Barcelona as examples.
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Hybrid Cloud Is Gathering Steam for Small, Medium Businesses

6/15/2017
Harvard Business Review Analytics finds smaller enterprises gaining more from hybrid cloud than large enterprises.
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The Need to Go Digital Is Clear; Not Everyone Can Get There

6/14/2017
PwC report on the 2017 Global Digital IQ says some organizations becoming top performers in going digital; others, not so much.
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DevOps Research Says Practice Yields Benefits Beyond Code

6/13/2017
Survey: Organizations that adopt disciplined DevOps thrive in ways that remain difficult for others; automation, quality, continuous delivery.
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Toolmaker Adopts Amazon Greengrass for IoT

6/12/2017
Stanley Black & Decker sees an expanded role for itself in the digital economy and is exploring how AWS Greengrass will enable it to launch new services.
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Red Hat: Linux Handlers Can Learn To Manage OpenStack

6/7/2017
Red Hat cloud architect Julio Villarreal-Pelegrino says you don't need to know OpenStack to succeed at implementing it.
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Harvard Business Publishing Cuts IT Costs 18% With Cloud Move

6/6/2017
Director of IT Ken Griffin tells an Interop ITX audience there are savings on Amazon, provided you make it through the expensive, "migration bubble".
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Cloud Power, Fear of Lock-in Grows Among IT Managers

6/2/2017
Mary Meeker's Global Internet Trends: As the digital age expands, so does fear of technology lock-in by cloud vendors.
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