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

Report: Wal-Mart orders its developers not to use the Amazon cloud

CLOUD - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is trying to hit back against Amazon.com Inc. following the e-commerce giant’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc. last week. Apparently feeling threatened by that deal, the retail giant has reportedly told its developer partners not to use Amazon Web Services Inc. to host their cloud applications. The Wall Street Journal first reported Wal-Mart’s new ...

SUSE’s container as a service platform goes live

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Open-source Linux company SUSE announced on Tuesday the general release of its new container as a service platform that first appeared in beta in March. SUSE Container as a Service is the latest piece in the company’s growing software-defined infrastructure suite, which integrates open-source technology to drive next-generation innovations. CaaS is a model where information ...

Adobe shares rise as customers embrace its Creative Cloud

APPS - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Thanks to more customers subscribing to its Creative Cloud suite, Adobe Systems Inc. Tuesday reported second-quarter profits that topped Wall Street’s expectations and made investors happy. The company’s shares rose 3.6 percent, to $146, in after-hours trading Tuesday after rising about a half percentage point in regular trading. If the gains hold Wednesday, the company’s stock is ...

Report: BMC Software mulls leveraged buyout of CA

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Digital enterprise management provider BMC Software Inc. is considering a leveraged buyout of rival software company CA Inc., according to a new report. Bloomberg, which first reported the story, said the two companies have approached banks with a view to putting together a debt package in order to finance BMC’s purchase of CA. Talks are ...

NTT Com claims world’s first completely software-defined network

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Telecommunications provider NTT Communications Corp. is launching what it claims is the world’s largest software-defined wide area network with coverage in more than 190 countries. NTT Com said its SD-WAN Service Portfolio is the first “100 percent software-defined network” in the world, and will allow it to offer a range of high-performing SD-WAN services for ...

Apple easily tops Gartner’s new list of the top 100 tech companies

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Analyst firm Gartner Inc. today published a report ranking the top information technology industry companies based on their worldwide revenues, and it’s little surprise who’s on top: Apple Inc. But how long will it reign? Gartner said the list is designed to help business leaders understand how much gear and services the top tech firms actually ...

Former EMC boss Joe Tucci becomes special adviser at VC firm 83North

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Joe Tucci, the former longtime EMC Corp. chairman and chief executive officer, has no intentions of taking it easy in his golden years. The 69-year-old veteran tech industry exec has just landed a new role as a special adviser at the venture capital firm 83North Ltd., which was formerly known as Greylock IL. Tucci left EMC ...

Google makes it easier to train deep learning AI models with Tensor2Tensor

EMERGING TECH - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

The Google Brain team wants to help data scientists get their deep learning projects off the ground more easily with the release into open source today of a new software code library called Tensor2Tensor. It’s designed to help researchers replicate the results of previous deep learning research projects while pushing the boundaries with new combinations of ...

Microsoft announces semiannual release schedule for Windows Server

INFRA - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced a big change to the way new releases of its Windows Server platform will be rolled out. The company said that going forward, it will release newly updated versions of its data center operating system on a semiannual basis, rather than one new release every few years. The new release cadence ...

In a bid to counter China, U.S. government will spend $258M on exascale supercomputer research

EMERGING TECH - BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 9 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Department of Energy said today it will pump $258 million worth of funds into six technology firms to help them develop the first exascale supercomputer. Exascale computers are systems that can achieve a “million, trillion calculations per second,” the DoE said. No such machine exists yet, but if it did, its computing power would ...