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

Smiles all round for server makers as quarterly revenue tops $23B

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 8 YEARS AGO

The world’s biggest computer server makers were basking in the sunshine during the third quarter, making the most of a nearly 38 percent jump in market revenue that topped $23.36 billion. According to International Data Corp.’s latest quarterly market tracker, server shipments also grew nicely, by 18 percent, to 3.161 million units. Dell Technologies Inc., which is ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE

Oracle takes Pentagon to court over its $10B JEDI cloud computing contract

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 8 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. is refusing to give up its fight for a piece of the U.S. Defense Department’s massive $10 billion cloud computing contract. Oracle, along with other public cloud providers, has been squabbling over DoD’s decade-long Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract for most of the year, arguing that the bidding process violates U.S. acquisition regulations. ...

Big data company AtScale grabs $50M in late-stage funding round

BIG DATA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 8 YEARS AGO

Business intelligence abstraction platform provider AtScale Inc. today said it has closed a $50 million late-stage round of funding. The Series D round was led by Morgan Stanley, with participation from new investors as well as AtScale’s previous investors Storm Ventures, Wells Fargo and Atlantic Bridge. The money will be used mainly to finance innovation, the ...

Instaclustr expands Apache Cassandra with new open-source software

BIG DATA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 8 YEARS AGO

Instaclustr Pty Ltd., which sells hosted and managed versions of popular open-source software Apache Cassandra, Spark and Kafka, is giving back to the community with three projects of its own. The company says it’s open-sourcing three “purpose-built” projects aimed at addressing pain points and expanding the capabilities of the Apache Cassandra database. Apache Cassandra is ...

Developers can now deploy serverless workloads to any cloud on GitLab

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 8 YEARS AGO

Software code hosting provider GitLab Inc. is getting into the serverless computing game. The company said today it’s teaming up with a firm called TriggerMesh Inc. on a new product developers can use to deploy serverless workloads to any cloud platform directly from the GitLab user interface. Serverless computing is an execution model in which ...

Pivotal Software finds its feet with strong earnings

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 8 YEARS AGO

Shares in Pivotal Software Inc. rose in after-hours trading after the cloud company reported decent third-quarter results that beat analysts’ expectations. The company, which makes software that lets enterprises build cloud computing applications more easily, posted a quarterly loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 5 cents per share. Revenue came to $168.1 million ...

Google announces beta of Istio service mesh on its Kubernetes Engine

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 8 YEARS AGO

Google LLC has just announced beta availability of what it says is a critical tool for managing a relatively new kind of software emerging in the cloud computing era. The public cloud computing giant is one of the main developers of Istio, the open-source “service mesh” is used to connect, manage and secure microservices, which in ...

Oracle pitches new serverless computing options for developers

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 8 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. is pitching a new serverless computing platform under the umbrella of its Cloud Native Framework services bundle, which was released today. The serverless offering, called Oracle Functions, is based on the open source Fn Project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The Fn project is a cloud-agnostic serverless platform that’s designed to ...

Application monitoring startup LogDNA lands $25M round

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 8 YEARS AGO

Application and infrastructure monitoring company LogDNA Inc. is hoping to play with the big boys after landing a new $25 million round of funding. Announced today, the Series B round was led by new investor Emergence Capital, with participation from Initialized Capital, Y Combinator Continuity Growth, and Providence Equity. LogDNA might not be such a well-known ...

Streamlio brings Apache Pulsar to Google’s cloud

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 8 YEARS AGO

Startup Streamlio Inc. is making its Apache Pulsar-based publish-and-subscribe messaging platform available as a cloud-native “Kubernetes application” on the Google Cloud Platform. The Streamlio Community Edition is a fast, highly scalable and low-latency messaging platform that provides a way for software applications to communicate with one another. It runs on commodity hardware and provides both ...