Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
Cyber security spending to hit $100B by 2020, IDC says
Information technology services will see greater investment in cyber security than any other segment this year, reaching $73.6 billion, according to a new survey from International Data Corp. released this week. The finding comes from IDC’s newly released “Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide“, which says that services will represent almost 45 percent of global cyber ...
Pure Storage expands converged infrastructure partnership with Cisco
All-flash storage solutions provider Pure Storage Inc. is expanding its partnership on converged infrastructure with Cisco Systems Inc. The company said that Cisco has validated its FlashStack converged infrastructure systems for the data center. The collaboration between the two companies is particularly interesting in light of the recent merger between Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. ...
HP to shed 3,000 to 4,000 jobs over next three years
HP Inc. has said it’s planning to cut between 3,000 and 4,000 jobs over the next three to four years in the wake of its split from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. HP is the more consumer-oriented of the two new HPs, encompassing the printer and PC-making arms of the company. The job cuts announcement was made ...
Microsoft creates new Azure Blueprint to smooth government cloud transition
Microsoft Corp. is stepping up its efforts to cater to governments looking to use the cloud. The launch of a new Azure Blueprint program provides agencies with guidance on how to ensure compliance while using its cloud services. Microsoft Azure Government, as the company’s cloud offering for government agencies is known, has already achieved a number ...
Google launches certification programs for big data and cloud
Google is offering a new certification for information technology pros interested in carving out a career in big data niche. Called the Google Certified Professional Data Engineer program, the new certification is aimed at professionals with experience in tasks such as programming data pipelines, tuning databases, creating reports and performing statistical analysis on company data. ...
Red Hat launches Ansible Galaxy, an open source hub for developers
Red Hat Inc. has just announced the launch of the Ansible Galaxy project, an open-source code repository for DevOps where developers can find, share and re-use their Ansible work. For those unfamiliar with Ansible, it’s an information technology automation tool that Red Hat acquired last year when it bought out the company behind it, AnsibleWorks ...
Mobile developers now top 12M, and they can’t get enough of Android
Mobile application development has hit new heights, with more than 12 million software developers now writing apps for small-screen devices, according to a new Evans Data survey. Evans Data’s “Global Development Population and Demographics Study” found that the number of developers of mobile applications has increased fivefold since it first began measuring participation back in 2006. ...
Dell EMC confirms undisclosed number of job cuts post-merger
Dell Technologies Inc. is laying numerous employees at EMC Corp. following its recent acquisition of that company, according to a report. A company source told trade publication CRN.com that it’s laying off an undisclosed number of employees, but refused to elaborate on which business units or facilities might be affected. However, The Register claims that the ...
Microsoft to leverage Azure cloud to accelerate renewable energy access
Microsoft Corp. wants to encourage greater adoption of renewable energy sources, and it’s hoping to use its Azure cloud platform to make that possible. Microsoft, which already set an example by using clean power in many of its own data centers, Thursday announced a couple of partnerships to further that goal, including one designed to enable ...
CoreOS speeds up build times with new Quay container registry
CoreOS Inc. has moved closer to its goal of providing “Google infrastructure for everyone” with the release of a new image registry that’s designed to accelerate container builds on its software platform. Container registries provide a way to securely store private container images, and the new Quay container registry brings a second Kubernetes-based component to ...