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.

Zimbra Adds Social Networking Features

9/30/2009
Yahoo's Zimbra unit continues to enhance its open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange and IBM LotusNotes.
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HP Hires Sun's Senior VP Of North American Sales

9/30/2009
HP has hired Randy Seidl, a key Sun sales executive to head up its Americas sales organization, putting more pressure on Sun.
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Oracle To Acquire HyperRoll

9/30/2009
HyperRoll's Data Performance Management Suite draws data out of all major databases to speed up reporting of financial results.
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Microsoft Open Source Advocate Joins Startup

9/29/2009
Sam Ramji, former head of Microsoft's Open Source Labs is now VP of strategy at Sonoa Systems, a startup focused on a key measure of how the Web 2.0 will operate.
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Oracle Fined $10,000 For Anti-IBM Ads

9/29/2009
The Transaction Processing Council levied a rare, $10,000 fine against Oracle for comparing an existing TPC result with one it plans to report in the future.
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IBM Preparing Self-Service Software Infrastructure

9/29/2009
IBM has been investing in cloud computing for several years, although Willy Chiu, VP of IBM Cloud Labs, acknowledges it may be difficult for those outside IBM to develop a picture of what its cloud initiative will finally look like.
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Talend Acquires Master Data Management Firm

9/28/2009
The data integration supplier will convert Amalto's assets into open source code for master data management.
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Develop Once, Then Deploy To Your Cloud Of Choice

9/25/2009
IBM's CTO of Cloud Computing, Kristof Kloeckner, says IBM has demonstrated software engineering as a cloud process. At the end of the process, a developer deploys his application to the cloud of choice. As of today, that cloud better be running VMware virtual machines. In the future, the choice may be broader.
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CA Updates Database Management For DB2

9/25/2009
Release 12 of the mainframe database management tool aims to simplify DB2 administration and improve application performance.
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IBM Building 'Smarter City' Cloud In China

9/25/2009
The center will be built with IBM's CloudBurst hardware and will be used to modernize a municipal administration and economy.
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Simple API Is Part Of A Rising And Open Tide To The Cloud

9/24/2009
What's notable about the open source project announced yesterday, Simple API for cloud computing, are the names that are present, IBM, Microsoft and Rackspace, and the names that are not: Amazon, for one, is not a backer, and let's just stop right there.
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Red Hat 2Q Revenues Grow 12%

9/24/2009
CEO Jim Whitehurst called the open source software vendor's second quarter revenues "better than expected."
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Coverity Reports Reduction In Code Defects

9/23/2009
The company started scanning open source code for reliability and integrity three years ago and has a Department of Homeland Security contract.
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MuleSoft Offers Tomcat Server For Web Apps

9/22/2009
Tcat Server is based on the Apache Tomcat Server. Tcat can be used to manage Tomcat either in the cloud, or on premises behind a firewall.
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IBM, Microsoft Back Zend Open Cloud API

9/22/2009
Zend Technologies' Simple API project provides a common API set from which developers may call application services.
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Oracle Vs. IBM,: Desperate Measures, Desperate Times

9/18/2009
In the Sept. 11 story, "Oracle Fights IBM Poaching With Ad," I wrote that Sun used to lead the Unix server market, now IBM does, with HP second. That was once true but the reality is more complicated. HP has slipped to number three, and Sun is number two; therein lies a tale.
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Doyenz Offers Disaster Recovery In Cloud

9/17/2009
Low-cost disaster recovery, live failover, and a production testing environment in the 'ShadowCloud' are the lead services being offered.
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Steep Climb For Microsoft's Next Open Source Advocate

9/16/2009
Sam Ramji, Microsoft's credible open source spokesman, is leaving to join a startup and return with his family to the San Francisco Bay area. All Microsoft has to do is find a replacement. Ramji tried to push a mighty boulder up the mountain and got it at least to the first ledge. How will his successor fare?
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Government Steps Into The Cloud

9/15/2009
In its first iteration, Apps.gov consists strictly of software-as-a-service applications or other Internet services.
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HP, Canon Expand Printing Alliance

9/14/2009
HP will rely on Canon for multifunction device technologies and Canon will provide technical support for jointly produced devices.
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Microsoft Sale Of Linux Patents Roils Open Sourcers

9/10/2009
Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin charges that Microsoft's goal in selling 22 patents was to get them into the hands of patent trolls.
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VMware Feels Growing Pains Of Being A $1 Billion Firm

9/9/2009
In a relatively brief period, VMware has gone from a small company to 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion. At VMworld in San Francisco, I got a sense of how that rapid growth leads to growing pains. For one thing, some of your best customers prefer your little competitors to you.
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SugarCRM Opens Up To Amazon EC2

9/9/2009
Sugar Community Edition 5.2 gives developers a central location to produce and assemble custom Sugar apps.
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Eucalyptus Supports VMware Hypervisor

9/8/2009
Open source Eucalyptus code now supports VMware ESX Server as well as open source code Xen and KVM for private clouds.
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Veeam, Liquidware, Offer VMware Add-Ons

9/8/2009
Third parties offer products to enhance the VMware virtual machine operating environments.
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VMware's Hidden Ally, The Economic Downturn

9/4/2009
It's no secret enterprises are making heavy use of virtualization in the data center. Market research shows their leading provider is VMware. With Microsoft offering virtualization in Windows Server 2008 and other free alternatives available, it's hard to see how VMware's grip will last. But VMworld offered a glimpse of why it may.
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Savvis Launches 'Private Data Center'

9/3/2009
Instead of generating a single virtual server in the cloud, Savvis is proposing that customers generate sets of them for ongoing use.
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Oracle, MySQL Not Competitors, Says Ingres CEO

9/3/2009
Sun's ownership of the MySQL open source database is being viewed as a potential anti-competitive issue by the European Commission.
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Oracle Sun Deal Faces EU Investigation

9/3/2009
The move by the European Union will delay Oracle's ability to close the deal by up to five months.
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VMware CTO Details Future Of Virtualization

9/2/2009
Speaking at VMworld, Stephen Herrod foresees virtual data centers recovering from disaster before users realize a disaster has occurred.
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Red Hat Bids For Enterprise Virtualization

9/2/2009
Released Wednesday, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 includes the KVM hypervisor, extensively tested for enterprise use.
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VMware Seeds Amazon Cloud Competitors

9/2/2009
vCloud Express is a counterstroke to Amazon EC2 cloud services.
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Oracle Unveils 11g Database, R2

9/1/2009
Release 2 of Oracle's flagship database seeks to consolidate departmental, smaller systems on a data center grid.
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VMware Bridges Data Center, Cloud

9/1/2009
In his VMworld keynote, CEO Paul Martz outlined the company's plans to provide seamless management consoles for internal and cloud-based virtual machines.
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