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

Box’s loss in line with Wall Street’s estimates but shares fall

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Cloud content management company Box Inc. reported a larger third-quarter loss Wednesday thanks to higher spending on  marketing as it looks to sign up more customers in what is becoming an increasingly competitive business. Box’s third-quarter results were largely in line with Wall Street’s estimates, but shareholders seemed less than impressed, with the company’s share price ...

Amazon announces new serverless and graph databases

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. is beefing up its database services in a big way. The company on Wednesday introduced a new offering at its AWS re:Invent conference that aims to boost the reliability, scale and usability of its Aurora database. In addition, it announced a brand-new service called AWS Neptune to help customers build and ...

Amazon steps up container support with Kubernetes and Fargate managed service

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Following in the footsteps of public cloud rivals Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. for once, Amazon Web Services Inc. on Wednesday finally announced it’s supporting the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration engine. The company also introduced a new managed service called Fargate for running containers without worrying about the underlying servers or clusters. With the announcements, ...

Amazon extends enterprise grip with five new marquee customers

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. revealed at its AWS re:Invent conference it’s adding four more major enterprise customers to its cloud platform, following a similar deal with the media company Turner Broadcasting System Inc. Early today, Amazon said it had landed deals with The Walt Disney Co., online travel firm Expedia Inc., the National Football League and ...

AWS updates its Marketplace, intros new PrivateLink service for secure cloud connections

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference saw a flurry of activity on its second day Tuesday with the public cloud giant and a host of its partners falling over themselves to announce a range of new products and services. The main announcements were reserved for Amazon itself, which said it added new features to its ...

Microsoft announces support for SAP’s S4/HANA software on Azure

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. is expanding its long-running partnership with German enterprise software giant SAP SE. The Redmond-based firm announced Tuesday it has engineered SAP’s cloud and enterprise resource planning software to run on its Azure cloud, as it bids to steal some of the limelight from Amazon Web Service Inc.’s cloud conference this week. Microsoft and ...

With broadcaster Turner, Amazon bags another marquee enterprise customer for its public cloud

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services Inc. has landed another major broadcast customer: Turner Broadcasting System Inc., the media conglomerate that owns popular TV channels such as CNN, NCAA, TBS, TNT and the Cartoon Network. Amazon announced the move at its AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today, saying that Turner has chosen it as its ...

Co-working space provider WeWork will acquire Meetup

APPS - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Updated Tuesday: Co-working space provider WeWork Inc. Tuesday said it has acquired Meetup Inc., the 15-year-old company behind the popular community platform of the same name. News of the deal was reported Monday by Crunchbase News, which said Meetup co-founder and Chief Executive Scott Heiferman confirmed the deal in an internal announcement to the company’s employees, and ...

HeadSpin launches with mobile app testing and experience monitoring platform

APPS - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Mobile application testing platform HeadSpin Inc. launched Monday with a new service for developers that it promise will provide quality assurance through every stage of the development process. HeadSpin said the main purposes of its platform are to accelerate application release cycles, build apps for complex user environments and alert developers instantly whenever their code ...

A growing complexity of services is hampering enterprises’ multicloud strategies

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Enterprises are increasingly adopting multicloud deployment strategies, but few are seeing any benefits thanks to the growing complexity of cloud service providers’ product portfolios. 451 Research Inc.’s latest Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation Study shows there’s a growing appetite for the mix-and-match approach towards cloud services, with 69 percent of enterprises showing an interest ...