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 August 2013

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Nebula's Kemp Challenges VMware's Cloud Vision

8/29/2013
Chris Kemp, former NASA CIO and OpenStack founder, says Nebula's server scale-out approach is superior to VMware's server-consolidation play to run next-gen applications.
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VMware: Software-Defined Networking Without 'Rip And Replace'

8/27/2013
NSX software will overlay existing hardware to produce virtual networks, says VMware networking CTO Martin Casado.
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Rackspace Challenges VMware With 'Host Anywhere' Strategy

8/26/2013
Not every VMware customer wants a VMware public cloud, says Rackspace CMO and former VMware exec Rick Jackson. That's where Rackspace comes in.
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NaviSite Unwraps VMware-Based Public Cloud Service

8/23/2013
NaviSite joins the thin ranks of vCloud Director-based IaaS suppliers with NaviCloud Director, just as VMware sets to kick off VMworld.
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Amazon Outage Leaves Latency Mystery

8/22/2013
A 49-minute outage at Amazon's retail operation appears to have slowed AWS services in Dublin, Ireland, speeded up others, according to monitoring service.
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The Great Cloud API Debate

8/20/2013
Two cloud industry heavyweights debate the pros and cons of OpenStack support for Amazon APIs.
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Amazon.com Suffers Hour-Long Retail Site Outage

8/19/2013
Cloud services remained in operation as Amazon.com online retail site disappeared Monday afternoon.
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VMware Analysis Tools: Small Step, Big Vision

8/16/2013
New Log File Analysis tools bring VMware's touted software-defined data center vision closer to reality; Cisco, EMC, other partners provide packs to translate product logs.
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NSA's Prism Could Cost U.S. Cloud Companies $45 Billion

8/14/2013
Losses may total between $35 billion and $45 billion in next three years due to lost business stemming from disclosure of NSA monitoring, new research predicts.
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CloudPhysics: Your VMware Performance Secret Weapon?

8/12/2013
Startup CloudPhysics analytical service improves performance of virtualized environments; new downloadable apps troubleshoot problems.
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