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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 July 2010

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Zend Launches PHP Subscription

7/30/2010
Aimed at cloud-based applications, the Zend Unlimited Subscription allows customers as many instances as they want without the need to calculate licensing.
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The Cloud's Proliferating Open Source APIs

7/29/2010
In June, Red Hat moved its Deltacloud open source project into the Apache Software Foundation's incubator. In July, Rackspace made its Cloud Files code open source and will collaborate with partners in the OpenStack project. The Open Cloud Standards Incubator at the DMTF is producing another set. Isn't this just too much open source?
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Amazon CTO Counters Eli Lilly Rumors Via Twitter

7/29/2010
Werner Vogels used the micro blogging service to respond to reports that Eli Lilly, a leading EC2 customer, was "dumping" Amazon Web Services.
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EnterpriseDB Upgrades Postgres Plus Advanced Server

7/28/2010
The 8.4 version includes protection against SQL injection attacks and compatibility features to make it easier to migrate Oracle applications.
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Red Hat Deltacloud Joins Apache Software Foundation

7/27/2010
Deltacloud APIs work with the NASA Nebula cloud engine and converts it into an alternative open source project.
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Cloud Working Group Developing Standard APIs

7/26/2010
The goal is a set of standard application programming interfaces, usable by all vendors, for each phase of cloud operation.
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CloudSwitch Maintains On Premises Policies In Cloud

7/23/2010
By launching a secure "cloud isolation layer," CloudSwitch says it can maintain enterprise ties and monitoring to workloads sent to the cloud.
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Rackspace's OpenStack: Where Do We Go From Here

7/23/2010
There's a new kid in town when it comes to open source code in the cloud. It's Rackspace's OpenStack, based on both Rackspace's and NASA Nebula's existing cloud engines. Wasn't there already sufficient open source code in play? Why do we need this initiative on top of those already afoot? Actually, we need 3-4 such initiatives.
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VMware Revenues Up 48%

7/22/2010
Second quarter revenues and net income jumped above levels set in 2009, prompting an optimistic prognosis for the year.
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Terracotta Announces Terabyte Data Cache For Apps

7/22/2010
The Ehcache 2.2 elastic caching platform can manage up to a terabyte of data in server memory to meet higher traffic demand by speeding application response time.
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Cloud For Ruby Apps Expands Services To NoSQL

7/21/2010
Heroku Add-on System will make it possible for the Ruby developers to make use of Apache's open source CouchDB and offer systems capable of storing the unstructured data generated by web applications.
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CA Expands Virtual Infrastructure Management Suite

7/19/2010
Virtual Privilege Manager protects the service console used to access a virtual machine hypervisor.
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UK Company Adopts Google Apps, Gmail To Collaborate

7/14/2010
A UK pest control company with an international presence has standardized on Google Gmail and Google Apps as a way to tie together a diverse company in 50 countries. "This was never about cost reduction. It was about collaboration," said CIO Bryan Kinsella at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London.
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VMware Upgrades vSphere VM Environment

7/13/2010
Speed and scalability of live virtual machine migrations are substantially increased with the 4.1 release.
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Amazon Launches High Performance Computing Service

7/13/2010
The Cluster Compute Instances can be used to form 32-core, high performance computing clusters able to communicate at ten times the speed of standard EC2 instances.
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Microsoft Launches Appliance For Building Private Clouds

7/12/2010
"This offers scalability, efficiency, and the ability to rapidly respond to changing situations," said James Barrese, vice president of technology at eBay, which partnered with Microsoft on the appliance.
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UK National Health Service Sees Savings In The Cloud

7/8/2010
The National Health Service in Britain isn't universally admired for its IT efficiency. But Miles Gray, the urbane hardware solutions architect for the NHS, said at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London that if carefully implemented, the cloud can help the service gain effectiveness and save expenses.
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