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 January 2012

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Vblocks: Data Center Hope, Or Hype?

1/30/2012
Cisco, EMC, and VMware have supplied a string of high-profile data centers with these special packages--rackmount servers packed with memory and optimized for virtualization, plus built-in storage and network switching.
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Commodity Hardware Meets Mission-Critical Apps: Success Story

1/27/2012
Here's how First American Title Insurance saved $800,000 by exchanging its HP Superdome hardware for commodity x86 servers, and resisted pressure to move from SQL to Oracle database technology.
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VMware Vs. The Old School: Data Center Management Battle

1/26/2012
With vCenter Operations Suite 5, VMware takes steps to manage the burgeoning virtual machine environment in a more advanced manner than traditional management tool vendors can.
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VMware Wins At Show Me The Money

1/25/2012
While Microsoft plays catch up with its upcoming System Center 2012, VMware craftily focuses on management tools and posts 2011 revenue up 32% over 2012.
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Amazon Launches Big Data Service

1/18/2012
DynamoDB cloud service, based on Amazon's own big data handling experience, offers NoSQL database capabilities and storage built for speed.
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Microsoft Simplifies System Center 2012 License Fees

1/15/2012
In Microsoft's battle with VMware for cloud management, price is a weapon. System Center 2012 users will have two options: a low-cost starter edition, or a datacenter edition for more virtualized shops.
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Microsoft System Center 2012's Private Cloud Power, Explained

1/15/2012
System Center 2012's self-provisioning and other features aim to help enterprises move to a more automated private cloud.
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Microsoft Makes Cloud Management Move On VMware

1/14/2012
New System Center suite, due in first half of 2012, centrally manages Windows Server in the data center plus future workloads in private clouds and Windows Azure public cloud. Can features, licensing tweaks lure VMware users?
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IBM's Green Hat Deal: Software Testing Savings Ahead

1/6/2012
Virtualization yields savings on operational expenses, not just capital expenses, as it starts to take over processes like software development and test.
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The App Economy's Special Ingredient: APIs

1/4/2012
Enabling outside companies to link to your company's digitized services through APIs will be key to success in the future economy, Hurwitz study finds.
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