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 December 2007
12/27/2007
While the authors jumped in to fix some expressions for version 5.10, the upcoming rewrite is expected to be more of a community effort.
12/27/2007
In addition to larger vendors, newcomers such as Embotics, PlateSpin, and Veeam are expanding their list of VM control products.
12/26/2007
The company is expected next year to launch its own hypervisor product that will work in conjunction with its Virtuozzo server software.
12/26/2007
By implementing an in-house XML-based settlements system, a California consortium is lowering the cost of power distribution.
12/21/2007
The health care services company moved 50 of its 70 applications to Linux over the last two years and will complete the process with the remaining 20 within a year or two.
12/20/2007
Jim Whitehurst, former chief operating officer of Delta Air Lines, has been named by the board to replace Matthew Szulik as president and CEO.
12/20/2007
The purchase leaves Jacada free to pursue its second product line, its call center solutions business, under its own name.
12/19/2007
The company claims the system can insert 250,000 records a second and extract 220,000 records a second.
12/18/2007
Lonnie Charles Denison had been in a dispute with his employer when he took the action against the data center's power supply.
12/18/2007
Many IT managers don't know how many virtual machines they're running and whether they're secure, says virtualization expert Anil Desai.
12/17/2007
Spring Integration will work with the core of Spring Framework to connect Java apps to other applications, databases, and pieces of the software infrastructure.
12/14/2007
NetBeans has been upgraded in version 6.0, and users of Studio Enterprise and Studio Creator will find key features they're familiar with in NetBeans.
12/14/2007
IBM is pushing industry specialization, while Microsoft is trying to capitalize on its latecomer status with a simpler approach.
12/13/2007
The virtualization software, formerly called Viridian, is slated to become part of the Windows Server 2008, sometime after Windows Server gets upgraded in February.
12/12/2007
The package includes the JBoss Application Server, JBoss Hibernate object-to-relational database mapping, and the JBoss Seam application development framework.
12/11/2007
The latest RealTime download includes benefits for flight avionics and defense software testing as well as software for the automotive industry.
12/7/2007
Enterprise MRG--Messaging, Real-Time, Grid--system touts well-regarded transfer protocol.
12/7/2007
The Software Freedom Law Center is taking issue with the Actiontec MI424WR wireless router, which may include open license-infringing BusyBox software.
12/6/2007
The popularity of the open source Java application server reflects programmers' preference for lighter, simpler technologies.
12/4/2007
Ops Center will be available on a subscription basis, which may give Sun a lower cost upfront advantage versus VMware.
12/3/2007
With the market for XML in service-oriented architecture on the rise, the hardware manufacturer sees competitive advantage in getting it to run faster on its platform.