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 July 2011

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Open Source Helps eBay Process $2000 Per Second

7/29/2011
The huge Internet auction house uses a small Sri Lankan firm's open source enterprise service bus--a little known but crucial piece of software.
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CA Buys Watchmouse, For Remote App Testing Power

7/29/2011
Netherlands firm uses synthetic transactions generated from points around the world to test a cloud app's ability to respond.
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Fruit Of CA Cloud Acquisitions Adds Up

7/28/2011
After two years of acquisitions, CA introduces 10 products to help customers plan and deliver private clouds that can use internal and external services.
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Nebula Wants To Be iPhone Of Data Center

7/28/2011
Former NASA CTO Chris Kemp explains his startup's appliance that manages commodity servers as a cloud resource. His plan: Out-innovate the competition.
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NASA's Former CTO Brings Cloud Appliance To Enterprise

7/27/2011
Early Google investors back Chris Kemp's 'garage' startup, Nebula, to build OpenStack appliance to compete with Microsoft, Cisco.
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Mashery: The E-Commerce Force Is With Them

7/27/2011
Accurately documenting APIs and helping mobile developers use them is a new force in e-commerce. Mashery's service fits right in.
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VMware Pricing Outrage: A Closer Look

7/26/2011
Many IT admins want to continue over-provisioning memory to virtual machines. But that's not an efficient way to manage the data center.
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OpenStack Founder's Startup, Piston, Eyes Private Cloud Security

7/21/2011
With $4.5 million in funding and part of the NASA Nebula cloud brain trust, Piston jumps into the private cloud software market.
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Virtualization Wars: Citrix Tops Microsoft As 'Primary Hypervisor'

7/21/2011
More than nine in 10 companies use some form of virtualization, yet 60% of servers are still unvirtualized.
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Telefonica Strategy Hints At Future of E-Commerce

7/20/2011
It's all about a managed API platform, not websites, the telecom's strategy declares. Netflix, AT&T, and Google already understand.
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HP Tools Bring Developers, IT Operations Closer

7/19/2011
Three new Application Lifecycle Management suite modules offer additional intelligence, service virtualization components.
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Cisco Live Wrap-Up: UCS, Virtualization Advances

7/15/2011
UCS blades have interface card that automates implementation of as many as 256 virtual networks.
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Netflix's Secret To Success In Latin America

7/7/2011
The company's public API represents a new weapon in global business. Who wouldn't like to gain a large set of customers in an automated way, with outside developers doing the hard interface work?
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7 Self-Inflicted Wounds Of Cloud Computing

7/5/2011
Don't let poor planning and half-hearted decisions doom your promising cloud projects.
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Zynga's Unusual Cloud Strategy Is Key To Success

7/1/2011
Zynga depends on Amazon's cloud at a critical juncture--as it launches a new game.
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