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 March 2017

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Managing APIs Is an Increasingly Complex Burden

3/31/2017
Cloud Elements study analyzes data on enterprise API use and concludes that API use is growing rapidly, but it also takes careful management.
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Inscrutable Amazon Bill: Behind It, a $1 Million Savings

3/28/2017
When Segment found its AWS bill going up unexpectedly, it did a deep dive to find the cause and realized a $1 million annual savings.
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Maritz IT's Journey: From Sinkhole to Full Business Partner

3/23/2017
Gerry Imhoff knew things had to change, but it would need to be a culture change, not a new generation of technology.
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RightScale's State of Cloud: Cut Wasted Use

3/22/2017
RightScale issued its sixth annual State of the Cloud report and found Docker a top DevOps tool, but concerns about 30% usage cloud waste.
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Cloudbleed: Final Damage Assessment Still Pending

3/21/2017
Cloudflare CEO Prince has published a persuasive case that Cloudbleed hasn't caused any detectable damage. Let's go slow on that.
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Cloud Benefits: Liberty Group Tech Chief Knows What They Are

3/20/2017
When The Liberty Group found increasing demand for its services in 2012, it rehired Rob Hiltbrand to take it to the cloud.
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Integrate Serverless With Your On-Premise IT Operations

3/17/2017
AbbVie architect Keith Townsend will discuss how serverless functions in the cloud can be meshed with IT operations on premises when he presents at Interop ITX.
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A Cloud Move Means Big Changes for IT Operations

3/14/2017
At Interop ITX, JP Morgenthal of CSC will describe what changes when it comes to operations management in a move to the cloud.
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Google Cloud Polishes Its Appeal To Enterprise

3/10/2017
At its Next conference in San Francisco. Google outlined some of the ways it is using a $30-billion investment to increase its footprint in the enterprise cloud sector.
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Is Amazon's Growth Running A Little Out Of Control?

3/7/2017
AWS operations explains that it was tougher to restart its S3 index system this time than the last time they tried to restart it.
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Red Hat Expert: OpenStack May Not Be As Complex As You Think

3/6/2017
Red Hat's principal cloud architect says you can get into OpenStack, one step at a time, accomplishing business objectives along the way.
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Serverless Computing Isn't Simple to Explain

3/2/2017
Serverless computing is a concept that's difficult to encapsulate in a few short words, as illustrated in our expert discussion.
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Deploying Containers to the Cloud: Many Options

3/1/2017
At Interop ITX 2017, a container deployment expert will demonstrate how users can select an option for moving containers to the cloud.
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