Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile. Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach. Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Industrial giant Siemens to buy Brightly Software in $1.58B deal

IOT - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 YEARS AGO

The German industrial giant Siemens AG said today it has agreed to buy U.S.-based asset management software firm Brightly Software Inc. for $1.58 billion, with the deal expected to close before the end of the year. Brightly Software will be integrated with the Siemens Smart Infrastructure division, which sells digital systems that are used to ...

ServiceNow’s observability platform Lightstep gains new capabilities to speed up incident resolution

APPS - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 YEARS AGO

ServiceNow Inc. said today it’s boosting the capabilities of its Lightstep observability platform with the launch of Lightstep Notebooks, a new feature that enables faster, more collaborative and accurate troubleshooting. Used by thousands of enterprises across the world, ServiceNow is a workflow automation platform that optimizes productivity for information technology and operations. ServiceNow acquired Lightstep ...

Intel delays building Ohio chip plant after federal funding delay

POLICY - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. has reportedly delayed breaking ground on its planned multibillion-dollar chip manufacturing plant in Ohio after becoming frustrated with Congress’ lack of progress on new legislation that would support the chipmaking industry. The groundbreaking ceremony had been scheduled for July 2022 but has now been canceled indefinitely, according to a report by the Wall ...

Amazon sent an AWS Snowcone device into orbit aboard the ISS

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. revealed at its re:Mars conference today that it has put one of its AWS Snowcone edge computing and storage devices into orbit, as part of Axiom Space Inc.’s latest mission to the International Space Station. Snowcones are special devices that are designed to operate in rugged, mobile and disconnected environments, bringing onsite processing ...

Amazon partners with Matter to launch AWS Expand healthcare tech accelerator

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 YEARS AGO

The healthcare industry incubator Matter said today it’s partnering with Amazon Web Services Inc. on a new initiative called AWS Expand to help bring startups from Europe, the Middle East and Africa to the U.S. market. AWS said in a blog post that the partnership was driven by a shared concern around the process of ...

Qualcomm announces unified ‘full stack’ approach to AI software

AI - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 YEARS AGO

Qualcomm Inc. today unveiled its new AI Stack portfolio, which it says brings a unified software approach to creating artificial intelligence applications across its products. According to the company, the Qualcomm AI Stack combines and improves upon its existing AI offerings by providing a more comprehensive AI solution for original equipment manufacturers and developers. It supports ...

Amazon reveals how it’s using AI to transform the retail experience

AI - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com today showcased the multiple ways in which artificial intelligence-based machine learning and computer vision algorithms are being combined with synthetic data to improve key retail automation technologies such as Just Walk Out, Amazon One and Amazon Dash Cart. In a keynote at Amazon’s re:MARS event today in Las Vegas, Dilip Kumar, Amazon’s vice president ...

At re:MARS, Amazon Alexa evolves from ambient to generalizable intelligence

AI - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s chief Alexa developer Rohit Prasad today spoke about the increasingly prominent role his company’s digital assistant plays in people’s lives, citing this as evidence of the rise of “ambient intelligence.” Prasad defines ambient intelligence as artificial intelligence that has become so pervasive that it appears all around you, responding to requests ...

Traefik Labs launches Traefik Hub to make multicloud application services easier to deploy and access

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 YEARS AGO

Cloud-native networking company Traefik Labs SAS today announced a new platform that’s designed to eliminate management and automation headaches around Kubernetes and Docker networking. Traefik Labs is the creator of the Traefik Stack, which provides various tools to automate cloud-natve application networking and infrastructure. Its flagship product is Traefik Proxy, which gives developers an easy ...

HashiCorp debuts new tool to detect infrastructure configuration drift

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 4 YEARS AGO

HashiCorp Inc. announced multiple updates on the product front at its HashiConf 2022 event in Amsterdam today, including a new feature that aims to prevent “infrastructure drift.” HashiCorp is in the business of information technology infrastructure automation. Its flagship platform Terraform enables system administrators to write scripts that define how their cloud and on-premises IT ...