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 July 2013
7/23/2013
PlanForCloud tool gathers cloud spending statistics that suggest ways many Amazon Web Services customers could save.
7/23/2013
Cloudant code donation goes into Apache Foundation project to give CouchDB greater scale-out capabilities.
7/23/2013
Free Windows 8 app compares speed and availability of cloud services using color-coded heat map.
7/22/2013
In three years, OpenStack has taken the lead in open source for the enterprise cloud. Fall summit scheduled to take place in Hong Kong.
7/18/2013
Dimension Data-sponsored research puts telco unit on top of most cloud vendor performance benchmarks. What are advantages in using a telco-owned supplier of cloud computing?
7/17/2013
Google App Engine matches AWS in application caching service, but not, apparently, in price.
7/16/2013
With Cloudsmith and its developer team, Puppet Labs will be able to move code from GitHub foundry to Amazon EC2; VMware a strategic partner.
7/16/2013
Rackspace CTO John Engates says a "dedicated" server requires its own storage and network resources, something Amazon's public cloud doesn't offer.
7/15/2013
The cloud community is busy debating how Amazon and a few other large vendors will dominate cloud economics. But it's far too soon to count out the newcomers.
7/15/2013
CloudVelocity learns your systems and Amazon's processes, then streamlines migration of workloads into EC2.
7/12/2013
Splunk, Sumo Logic say they're well prepared to compete against VMware's new vCenter Log Insight.
7/12/2013
Apple vs. Samsung resumes in November, but Samsung throws new ammunition into its battle to reverse last August's billion dollar patent win for Apple.
7/11/2013
Startup's focus on developers and simple, fast cloud access is winning customers from competitors including Rackspace, Amazon, and SoftLayer.
7/10/2013
Reductions range from 37% to 80% as Amazon Web Services girds for fresh competition from IBM's Softlayer, newcomer DigitalOcean.
7/10/2013
Three patent infringement lawsuits in 2012 resulted in damage awards of more than $1 billion, PricewaterhouseCoopers reports.
7/9/2013
Sprint says its Velocity Service Bus, based on IBM's MessageSight mobile data appliance, will enable new uses for auto-generated data in apps.
7/8/2013
Netcraft server survey spots Amazon.com growth spurt since Sept. 2012. It's unclear what portion is attributed to Amazon Web Services.
7/8/2013
OpenStack gains a convert as IBM adds SoftLayer acquisition (and brand) to its new Cloud Services division.
7/4/2013
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12C Release 3 concentrates more system information into the management console's pane of glass.
7/3/2013
With Stratos 2.0, WSO2 enables rapid deployment of multi-tenant applications on AWS, VMware and other OpenStack clouds.
7/2/2013
Akamai Aqua Ion makes mobile content delivery decisions based on what works best for the end-user's device, location and needs.
7/1/2013
Startup, led by former Yahoo CTO Raymie Stata, aims to turn 10- and 20-node Hadoop users into 100- and 500-node users.
7/1/2013
Microsoft will support Ruby on Rails developers working in Engine Yard platform-as-a-service starting July 31.
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