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 August 2011
8/31/2011
VMworld attendees don't like the recent vSphere 5 licensing price changes--but they have little appetite for moving elsewhere, either, according to our man-on-the-show-floor conversations.
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8/30/2011
When it comes to transforming the data center, VMware is writing the story. And the theme is automation.
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8/29/2011
Launching at VMworld 2011, Recover2Cloud provides an automated way to back up key production systems. But it's not quite instant failover.
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8/26/2011
Amazon-compatible private cloud software seeks to guarantee continuous operations.
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8/26/2011
How can legacy systems tap into hybrid cloud services? New plug-ins extend the reach of IBM's Tivoli systems management software.
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8/24/2011
Third-generation Oracle VM server virtualization and management software emphasizes scalability, OVF support. But Oracle places a distant fourth in the marketshare race.
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8/23/2011
Self-service ElastiCache, an on-demand caching system, works with database applications and application servers to boost response times.
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8/18/2011
Virtualization tool vendor adds capacity management to help IT right-size VM resources.
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8/17/2011
Startup launches system to scale up MySQL databases without the need to change applications.
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8/16/2011
Cloud OS Nimbula Director 1.5 lets IT share user identities and privilege levels across multiple data centers.
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8/15/2011
I/O Director hardware now connects virtual machines to any other resource on the network, including other VMs, right inside the Xsigo box--a big timesaver.
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8/15/2011
Amazon says it will better protect key backup components to avoid another outage.
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8/10/2011
Citrix' XenDesktop will add RingCube's vDisk capabilities, supporting heavy personalization of virtual desktops while allow centralized IT control.
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8/9/2011
Software error accidentally eliminated data snapshots taken just before Sunday's outage; may complicate some customers' recovery.
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8/8/2011
Primary and backup power systems fail when lightning strikes EC2 data center in Dublin. Could customers have braced for this unusual event?
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8/4/2011
AWS uses Equinix data centers as a private networking hub linked to EC2, giving businesses a secure way to connect to the cloud service.
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8/3/2011
Good news: Data center power use didn't grow nearly as fast as predicted the past five years. You can thank cloud computing and new data center designs.
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