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

David Goulden, Dell EMC’s infrastructure services president, will quit next year

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

One of Dell EMC’s most senior executives, David Goulden (pictured), who is currently in charge of the company’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, will leave the company by the end of its current fiscal year in January 2018. Dell Technologies Inc. announced the departure of Goulden Friday, saying the executive will hang around to help with a ...

Amazon beefs up cloud server instances for high-performance databases

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. late Wednesday announced new server instances for customers running data-intensive in-memory databases such as SAP SE’s Hana platform on its cloud. The new EC2 instances come with 4 terabytes of dedicated DDR4 memory. They’re currently available in Amazon’s U.S. East, U.S. West, Asia Pacific and EU regions, the company said. Customers ...

Microsoft unveils new cloud security services and user interface tools

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday unveiled a new set of services called Azure Confidential Computing that’s designed to bolster the security of its public cloud service. Separately, the company is also planning to lift the lid on a preview of Project Honolulu, which is a graphical management tool intended to be used with the forthcoming Windows ...

Lyft and Uber eye big funding from Google and SoftBank

EMERGING TECH - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Ride-hailing giants Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. look to be on the verge of landing even more big funding rounds, led by Google Inc.’s parent company Alphabet Inc., and Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. The biggest surprise is Lyft’s funding. It’s being reported by both Bloomberg and Axios that Google is looking to ...

IBM can now simulate chemical molecules on its quantum computers

EMERGING TECH - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. has claimed a major new breakthrough in its quantum computing efforts. The company said it has created a new approach to simulating molecules using a quantum computer that could have a transformative effect on materials science and chemistry and enhance our understanding of complex chemical reactions. IBM said the breakthrough could lead to new practical applications ...

Toshiba aims to sell flash memory unit to consortium including Apple and Dell

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. and Dell Technologies Inc. may soon be part-owners of Toshiba Corp.’s flash memory chip business. Toshiba said Wednesday it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with a consortium led by Bain Capital Private Equity LP to “negotiate a mutually satisfactory definitive agreement” over the sale of its flash unit by the end ...

Trump blocks sale of Lattice Semiconductor to China-backed firm

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

U.S. President Donald Trump has blocked the proposed sale of Lattice Semiconductor Corp. to a private equity firm backed by Chinese investors, saying the deal “threatens to impair the national security of the United States.” Lattice, which is based in Hillsboro, Oregon, manufacturers microprocessor chips used in data centers, video devices and industrial equipment. The ...

Oracle joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation, adds new container services

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

As the excitement around software containers reaches fever pitch, database software giant Oracle Corp. is throwing its weight behind the cause. The company said Wednesday it’s signing up as a platinum member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the organization leading the development of the Kubernetes container orchestrator tool. In addition, the company has just ...

Ride-hailing firms Lyft and Uber open-source microservices technology

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Ride-hailing companies Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. are embracing the open-source software movement. The two megastartups have both donated technologies developed in-house to the Cloud Native Computing Federation, which is best known for hosting the Kubernetes container orchestrator project. The CNCF announced the news at the Open Source Summit North America on Wednesday, describing ...

Oracle opens up enterprise Java and moves it to the Eclipse Foundation

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. will “more fully open up” its Java Enterprise Edition middleware platform by moving it to the Eclipse open-source software foundation. Java EE is a collection of technologies and application program interfaces for the Java platform designed to support “enterprise” applications, which are generally large-scale, distributed, transactional and highly available applications designed to support ...