Profile of Charles Babcock

Editor at Large, Cloud News & Commentary Posts: 23

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.

OpenSSL Says Breach Did Not Involve Corrupted Hypervisor

1/3/2014
Hosting provider's compromised password system, not a hacked hypervisor, led to defacing of OpenSSL.org site, site reps say – after VMware cries foul.
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Bromium Secures Older PCs, Terminals Via 'Microvisor'

12/17/2012
CTO Simon Crosby says goal is to isolate untrusted tasks on Windows XP machines, thin clients as users bring outside code and content inside the enterprise.
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Bromium Strengthens Desktop Security Using Virtualization

10/11/2012
Ex-Citrix CTO Simon Crosby says Bromium's vSentry technology isolates suspicious activity in a virtual machine, then identifies and flushes it when the VM is erased.
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Cloud Services Face Different Security Threats

9/14/2012
Alert Logic study finds that cloud and on-premises customers face about the same number, but different types, of threats.
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Virtualization Security: No One Product Does It

9/8/2011
VMware environments demand multiple tools to build barriers, trap intruders, maintain VM security-- and keep the Jason Cornishes out.
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Virtualization Security: Your Biggest Risk Is Disgruntled Insider

9/6/2011
Could 88 of your virtual servers be deleted by an angry insider during one McDonald's visit? Learn from Shionogi's experience.
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Cloud Identity Problems Solved By Federating Directories

8/4/2011
Amazon, Radiant Logic join competition to supply virtual directories that make enterprise identities available in the cloud.
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Verizon To Continue Rapid Cloud Ramp

1/18/2011
The firm will rapidly expand its cloud offerings, with platform-based services, customer relationship management, and enterprise resourcThe telecom provider will expand its cloud computing offerings with platform-based services, and upcoming CRM and ERP apps.e planning launching in 2011.
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10Gen Raises $6.5 Million For MongoDB

12/10/2010
The open source NoSQL database company has attracted a venture funding round from Sequoia Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Union Square Ventures.
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Zenworks 11 Update Consolidates Endpoint Governance

11/11/2010
Novell's Zenworks 11 suite combines identity, security, patch, and asset management onto a single pane of glass with a web-based management console.
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Amazon Says Cloud Beats Data Center Security

11/4/2010
Security is a shared responsibility between the cloud provider and its customers, says Amazon Web Services security architect.
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EnterpriseDB Adds Integrated Replication, Hot Standby

9/24/2010
Postgres Plus gains features from updated open source database PostgreSQL 9.0.
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Rackspace Updates Hybrid Email Service

6/17/2010
Shared calendaring and other features are included in Rackspace's expanded hybrid Microsoft Exchange/Rackspace email offering in the cloud.
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Terracotta Releases Ehcache 2.1

5/25/2010
Ehcache 2.1 governs the distributed random access memories of a server cluster on behalf of Java applications.
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Oracle To Acquire Firewall Maker Secerno

5/20/2010
The Secerno DataWall firewall appliance inspects commands, logs activities, and issues alerts to protect Oracle and other database systems.
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Sun MySQL Head Joins EnterpriseDB

4/12/2010
Karen Padir, a key software leader at Sun Microsystems, has joined Oracle's competition, open source EnterpriseDB.
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IT Spending On Cloud Ratcheting Up

4/2/2010
A Sandhill Group survey shows enterprise interest in -- and IT spending on -- cloud computing accelerating over the next three years.
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BMC To Acquire Phurnace

1/7/2010
The startup is being picked up for its Java application management knowhow.
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Red Hat CEO On Recession, Virtualization, Ballmer

1/6/2010
Jim Whitehurst says his firm has encountered a "perfect storm" of conditions furthering its growth in recession.
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IBM Tool Scans For Malevolent Ajax, Flash Code

2/5/2009
Rational AppScan monitors interactive Web applications and SOA services built as Web services to spot potential security holes.
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Only 35% Of Oracle Users Continuously Monitor For Suspicious Activity

9/19/2008
A recent Unisphere survey found 20% of respondents anticipated some kind of data security breach over the coming year.
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VMware Issues Patch For Hypervisor Bug

8/13/2008
CEO Paul Maritz apologized to customers and said VMware was determined to get to the bottom of the problem that caused virtual machines to refuse to start.
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Oracle Counters SQL-Injection Holes With Update

7/21/2008
There were an additional seven patches for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards applications, seven for the recently acquired BEA product suite, and six for Oracle E-Business Suite.
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