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.

Microsoft Azure: More Mature Cloud Platform

9/30/2015
With Azure, Microsoft stakes claim against Amazon and Google, touting its ability to serve as a more muscular cloud partner for the enterprise data center.
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GE: IoT Makes Power Plants $50M More Valuable

9/29/2015
GE preps general availability of its Predix analytics platform, says managing utility output with Internet of Things data will increase an electric plant's value by $50 million over its lifespan.
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DeepSQL: Containerized Database With New Performance Levels

9/29/2015
Deep Information Sciences has put its high-performance version of MySQL in a Docker container for flexibility and mobility.
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Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite Is Now Available

9/29/2015
Azure users now have the option of joining the Internet of Things and collecting and analyzing their machine data with Microsoft's IoT Suite.
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Red Hat To Be First $2 Billion Open Source Company

9/24/2015
Red Hat reports 13% growth in the second quarter, improved cloud and emerging technology sales, and an expanded revenue estimate for third quarter.
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CloudFlare Pulls In $110 Million, Plots Next Move

9/24/2015
CloudFlare is a San Francisco startup that is making a name for itself in serving content to mobile devices and warding off Internet attacks. Now it has $110 million in funding from Microsoft, Google, and others.
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Amazon Cloud, Analytics Help Researchers Fight Famine

9/23/2015
Researchers in the US and China explore rice genomes with AWS analytics tools to develop drought and disease resistant crops.
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Amazon Disruption Produces Cloud Outage Spiral

9/22/2015
Amazon DynamoDB failure early Sunday set off cascading slowdowns and service disruptions that illustrate the highly connected nature of cloud computing.
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Amazon Adds Storage For Infrequently Accessed Data

9/21/2015
Standard-IA holds data that's not accessed often, but when it's needed, it's needed fast, not like the chilled-out pace of Glacier data retrieval.
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Salesforce Drives Analytics Deeper Into Sales Process

9/18/2015
Salesforce's announcements at Dreamforce this year illustrate how it's seizing hold of analytics and putting it to work for its systems.
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Salesforce IoT Cloud Success Rests On Informatica Partnership

9/17/2015
Salesforce has set up its Internet of Things cloud, but it's counting on Informatica to help customers move data into it.
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SalesforceIQ Gathers Intelligence For Customers Big And Small

9/17/2015
SalesforceIQ, which works with enterprises and small business, will gather information from email and other applications for sales guidance.
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Salesforce Brings Internet Of Things Data Into CRM

9/16/2015
IoT Cloud will enable customers to use sensor-gathered data in their customer relationship management software and take action on what they find.
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Planet Labs Revolutionizes Earth Views With Inexpensive Satellites

9/16/2015
Shoebox-sized Dove satellites capture ongoing high-resolution images of earth from small, low-cost satellites.
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Salesforce Expands Wave Analytics Platform Capabilities

9/15/2015
Salesforce tries to inject more analytics into customers' operations as they use CRM data and third-party applications.
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Brisk Pulls Data From Salesforce Partners

9/15/2015
A new product from a Swedish firm pulls together "personalized" sales rep information from many Salesforce partner apps.
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Salesforce Customers Investing In Multiple Clouds, Report Finds

9/11/2015
Bluewolf consulting has released its fourth customer feedback report on Salesforce. It finds that the use of multiple clouds is increasing.
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Salesforce Beefs Up Heroku For Custom Enterprise Apps

9/10/2015
Salesforce App Cloud ties together Salesforce's CRM apps, Force.com platform, and Heroku platform to run various parts of an application.
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Cloudera Sees Spark Emerging As Hadoop Engine

9/9/2015
Cloudera launches the One Platform Initiative to advance Spark as the data processing successor to MapReduce inside Hadoop.
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VMware Moves Open Door For Security Partners

9/8/2015
Steve Herrod, former VMware CTO turned venture capitalist, sees new roles for startups with security centered on virtual machines, containers, and other isolation techniques.
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HyTrust Claims Advances In Virtual Data Center Ops

9/4/2015
VMware security partner HyTrust has been pushing new steps in virtual machine and virtual network operations, including role-based access.
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VMware Evo Rail Offers Hyper-Converged Infrastructure On The Go

9/3/2015
VMware's hyper-converged appliance, EVO Rail, got off to a slow start but now comes without the added vSphere pricing.
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Salesforce App Eases Tasks For Service Reps

9/3/2015
Salesforce reveals Service Wave Analytics, a role-specific application built on its Wave Platform that gathers information for service representatives and their managers.
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VMware's Stealth Strategy: Gain Public Cloud Revenues

9/2/2015
VMware thinks it's gained more ground in the public cloud market than analysts realize; it won't be pushed out by Amazon.
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VMware Goes All-In On Containers

9/1/2015
New VMware products elevate containers from an afterthought to a primary vehicle for application delivery.
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