Profile of Charles Babcock

Editor at Large, Cloud Member Since: 11/15/2013
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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.

VMware Advances Hybrid Cloud At VMworld

8/31/2015
VMware opens its VMworld event with additions to its vCloud Air public cloud, ties into the virtualized data center, and other enhancements.
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9 NoSQL Pioneers Who Modernized Data Management

8/30/2015
The folks profiled here are tackling data management for the Internet Age, helping us all understand what can be done with a mass of unstructured information. See how their work has transformed the way we handle databases.
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OpenStack Now Offers 3 Ways To Deploy Containers

8/28/2015
OpenStack's Magnum Project will give cloud users the ability to deploy Docker containers in virtual machines, on bare metal, or in other containers.
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Velostrata Hybrid Offers Public Cloud Compute, On-Premises Data

8/28/2015
Velostrata emerges from stealth to showcase its hybrid cloud that keeps enterprise data behind the firewall while leveraging the public cloud's power for compute.
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Google Unleashes Container Engine For Docker Workloads

8/27/2015
The Google Compute Cloud has gained a service for launching Docker containers and managing their lifecycles.
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Intel Invests $20M In Big Data Specialist BlueData

8/26/2015
Intel is leading a $20 million investment in BlueData as a way to speed deployments of big data systems among more users.
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Salesforce Polishes Its CRM Interface With Lightning

8/25/2015
Salesforce is delivering a cleaner, more elegant look for its desktop CRM applications by using its mobile platform's Lightning components.
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Intel Backs OpenStack Firm Mirantis With $100M Investment

8/25/2015
With $100 million in capital, Intel is leading a group of investors interested in backing Mirantis' efforts to expand the adoption of enterprise OpenStack clouds.
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CoreOS Adds Intel Container Security To Rocket

8/24/2015
CoreOS builds greater security and speed into Rocket containers with Intel's hypervisor-based, yet speedy, Clear Containers isolation layer.
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Amazon IT Services: No Longer An Oxymoron

8/21/2015
AWS is showing increasing sophistication when it comes to displacing other IT software and service suppliers, TBR analyst says.
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Google Loses Data: Who Says Lightning Never Strikes Twice?

8/20/2015
In a four-strike incident, power to Google Compute Cloud disks in Ghislain, Belgium, gets interupted and data writes are lost.
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Windows Server 2016 Will Run Docker Engine

8/20/2015
Microsoft and Docker have collaborated to produce a version of Docker Engine that formats containers to run on a Windows Server 2016 host.
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Linux Foundation Proposes Open Source Best-Practices Badge

8/19/2015
Core Infrastructure Initiative doesn't just want to correct existing problems; it wants a stamp of approval on open source projects that follow best-practice security and software stability practices.
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IBM's LinuxONE Mainframe: What's Old Is New Again

8/18/2015
Linux on a mainframe is not a new idea. Red Hat and SUSE are already there. Linux on an affordable mainframe is the new idea.
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Linux Foundation Funds NTP's 'Father Time'

8/17/2015
The Network Time Protocol will keep Harlan Stenn, its chief maintainer, working for another year. But the 12-month commitment, as well as other funding decisions, raises the question of whether the Linux Foundation is hedging its bets on NTP.
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Goldman Sachs Puts Elasticsearch To Work

8/17/2015
Wall Street financial services firm Goldman Sachs benefits from a broader use of open source search engine. Learn how its programmers use it on code projects.
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Red Hat Satellite 6.1 Plays Well With Linux Containers

8/14/2015
Red Hat's Satellite systems management product adds Linux containers, virtual machines, and RHEL servers to its target systems.
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Google Adds Big Data Services To Cloud Platform

8/13/2015
Google brings its own Cloud Dataflow and Cloud Pub/Sub big data services to Compute Engine and App Engine.
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Docker Applies Secure Key Model On Code Handling

8/12/2015
Docker 1.8, now available, adds TUF security specification to its image updates to defend against unverified code.
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Microsoft, Docker Intensify Container Collaboration

8/11/2015
This week, Docker and Microsoft CTOs reported on their joint engineering work on containers for Windows Server. The two said their collaboration is on track.
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Amazon S3 Slowed By Software 'Misconfiguration'

8/11/2015
Mistake in S3 traffic system configuration produced severe latencies and error rates for AWS S3 users early Monday morning.
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IBM Opens Third Bluemix 'Garage' In Toronto

8/10/2015
IBM is making its Bluemix development platform available in startup-like settings in San Francisco, London, and now Toronto.
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GE Predix Cloud Won't Look Much Like Amazon

8/7/2015
With its focus on industrial-scale machine data, GE's Predix Cloud won't look much like the data centers of major cloud suppliers such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
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Hortonworks Reports Growing Customer Base, Posts Loss

8/6/2015
Hortonworks, the Hadoop system pioneer, continues to invest in the management of unstructured big data. However, the company reported a second-quarter financial loss.
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GE Predix Cloud: Industrial Support For Machine Data

8/6/2015
GE, the champion of industrial-age analytics, will become a cloud service provider early in 2016 for large-scale machine data. The company envisions a machine-data-based Internet that tracks and monitors civilization's engines and systems of all types.
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IBM Wields Cloud Patents For Defense, Profit

8/5/2015
IBM is moving into cloud patents, but that's not necessarily going to upset established providers. In a pinch, they could end up as partners.
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IBM Locks Up Cloud Processes With Patents

8/4/2015
IBM has received 1,200 patents on cloud computing over the last 18 months. Here's a sample of what Big Blue is patenting and why it's a concern.
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Adopting Cloud Is No Longer An Advantage, HBR Finds

8/3/2015
The analytics unit of Harvard Business Review concludes that since everybody is doing it, less advantage is found in moving to cloud.
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