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 September 2016

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SaaS Use: By The Numbers

9/30/2016
EY survey finds security, identity management, systems management likely areas of future growth.
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Beer Giant Taps Salesforce Data For Better Customer Relations

9/28/2016
Anheuser-Busch InBev, owner of more than 200 beer brands, needed a single platform for different customers and brewed up one on Salesforce.
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25 Cloud Vendors Worth Watching

9/27/2016
Cloud services are firmly established in the fabric of IT staff operations as necessary and growing ingredients of enterprise computing. No matter your business model or industry vertical, chances are that you've already made strides into the cloud and are looking at additional resources. With that in mind, we offer a roundup of 25 options to consider in your cloud ecosystem -- including cloud services for public, private, and hybrid options, as well as management and monitoring tools.
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Beachbody Is Shaping Up For Public Cloud

9/26/2016
Beachbody is a fitness product specialist with custom financials and ERP needs. However, these systems are a hindrance when it comes to migrating to Oracle Cloud.
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ClubCorp CIO Sees Cloud As Hole In One For Golf

9/22/2016
ClubCorp CIO Patrick Benson is finding that both infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service are important to migration. The two cloud technologies are also fundamental for future mobile applications.
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YellowDog Harnesses Oracle's Cloud, Others For Compute Power Boost

9/20/2016
YellowDog's service makes use of different clouds, including AWS and Oracle bare metal servers, to compete in the field of 3D animation rendering.
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5 Cloud Performance Measuring Strategies

9/20/2016
Migrating systems to the public cloud requires many steps. One of them should be performance monitoring. Here are five ways IT pros can make sure their company is getting a return on its cloud investment.
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Salesforce ROI: What It Means For IT

9/19/2016
With several SaaS platforms available, IDC looked at Salesforce's offerings to measure where the ROI lies for IT departments.
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Salesforce Draws Market Strength With Conga

9/16/2016
Conga helps Salesforce customers build contracts, proposals, and other documents. With the company's flexibility, its applications lead the Salesforce App Exchange in service subscriptions.
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How To Commission Your First Virtual Machine In AWS: A Primer

9/15/2016
If you need a compute resource quickly, but you don't have any experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), this primer will help you get started.
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Comparing Cloud Vendors: A Primer For IT

9/12/2016
With several major players emerging as mega-cloud vendors, the distinctions between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS have blurred. Here's a primer on the various offerings, based on the latest Forrester Wave report.
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Microsoft Seizes SaaS Lead From Salesforce

9/6/2016
Microsoft is experiencing strong growth in its Azure-based, Dynamics collaborative applications, overtaking Salesforce as the market leader, according to a new report.
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What eBay's Machine Learning Advances Can Teach IT Professionals

9/6/2016
EBay has been gathering data and employing machine learning to connect more buyers to sellers and increase the trustworthiness of transactions. The use-cases are worth exploring for any IT professional looking to help improve a company's bottom line by applying machine learning to its customer-facing applications.
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ESC Labs IT Manager Finds The Right Chemistry With Cloud

9/2/2016
Tom White is the IT director at ESC Labs as well as a trained chemist. During his work day, he weaves between the two worlds in order to deliver the technology that the company's chemists need.
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