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

RightScale’s State of the Cloud report shows Microsoft Azure gaining on Amazon

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Enterprises are showing no signs of slowing down in their race to move applications and data into the cloud, challenges around security and spending remain. But the battle among cloud providers for the top spot is getting more interesting, with Microsoft Corp. making inroads on leader Amazon Web Services Inc. and others gain ground as ...

Gartner: Almost half of all CIOs are planning to pilot AI projects soon

EMERGING TECH - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence may still be seen by some companies as something of an emerging technology, but that won’t be the case for long: Almost half of the chief information officers quizzed in a new survey by Gartner Inc. say they plan to deploy AI systems in the future. Gartner’s latest CIO Agenda Survey, released today, ...

Twilio breezes past earnings target as CFO bids farewell

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Twilio Inc. saw its share price rocket by more than six percent after reporting fourth-quarter earnings that easily beat Wall Street’s expectations. The cloud communications platform-as-a-service company reported a net loss of $20.2 million, or 20 cents per share, in the fourth quarter. Earnings after certain costs such as stock compensation amounted to a loss ...

Qubole teams up with Snowflake Computing to enable faster training of AI models

BIG DATA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Having tackled the challenge of making the big-data management software Hadoop easier to user and providing more organizations with access to comprehensive data analytics, Qubole Inc. now wants to do the same with the streaming data management software Apache Spark. To that end, the company today said it’s teaming up with cloud data warehouse firm ...

Deepfence pitches ‘security as a microservice’ to shore up container defenses

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Application security startup Deepfence Inc. is pitching a novel way to protect software containers with the launch today of a new “Security-as-a-Microservice” product. Software containers are an emerging technology increasingly popular with developers and large enterprises in general, because they provide an easy way to build applications that can run on any hardware or operating ...

Google brings its Accelerated Mobile Pages feature to email

APPS - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Google LLC is expanding the capabilities of its open-source Accelerated Mobile Pages framework that’s designed to make mobile web pages more interactive and faster to load. The AMP framework was initially targeted at publishers as a way of making their content more accessible, and now Google wants to bring its features to email as well. ...

Pivotal Software and VMware launch new container service

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Pivotal Software Inc. and its Dell Technologies Inc. sibling VMware Inc. today announced the general availability of their Kubernetes-based Pivotal Container Service following an initial beta release last year. PKS, as the service is called, is designed to enable companies easily create software containers, which bundle software applications together in a way that they can be run ...

Sylabs launches Singularity Pro, a container platform for HPC environments

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Startup Sylabs Inc. today announced the commercial release of its open-source Singularity container engine software for high-performance computing. Called Singularity Pro, the platform has been optimized specifically for running software containers on HPC infrastructure, or supercomputers that aggregate computing power in a way that delivers much higher performance than one could get out of a typical ...

Amazon adds encryption at rest to DynamoDB database service

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. today added a new encryption feature to its DynamoDB database service in order to help better secure users’ data. DynamoDB is Amazon’s NoSQL database service, which is designed for storing and retrieving unstructured data, and is typically used for big-data workloads and analysis. With the new update, Amazon says users can choose ...

LinkedIn open-sources Dynamometer, a new tool for testing big-data performance

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp.-owned professional networking site LinkedIn is open-sourcing another new project. Dynamometer is a new tool is focused around stress-testing large Hadoop big-data deployments without using massive amounts of infrastructure. In a blog post today, LinkedIn senior software engineer Erik Krogen said the company built Dynamometer back in 2015 in response to an issue that cropped up when it ...