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

Google adds more security features to its cloud services

Google LLC wants its cloud customers to have more control and visibility over their data, so today it announced a raft of new capabilities around data encryption, network security and security analytics. The most significant of the updates, which were announced at Google’s Cloud Next UK event in London today, is a new External Key ...

Big tech firms join the Open Invention Network to fight against patent trolls

IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and the Linux Foundation are teaming up with the Open Invention Network to help protect open-source software projects from so-called patent assertion entities, more colloquially called “patent trolls.” The OIN is a “patent non-aggression community” that cross-licenses patents to its members on a royalty-free basis. It also has its own patents, ...

Google launches a more predictable pricing model for its BigQuery analytics service

Google LLC today announced a new reservation system for its BigQuery service that helps ensure more predictable pricing for enterprises that use it regularly. BigQuery Reservations helps enterprises to predict their analytics spending more easily because they can purchase capacity in bulk and then allocate it as desired. Google said that should appeal to many ...

Cloud data backup company Clumio raises $135M Series C round

Enterprise data backup provider Clumio Inc. is enjoying some strong momentum if its latest funding round is anything to go by. The company said today it has raised $135 million in a Series C round of funding, which is an enormous amount of cash for a company that only emerged from stealth mode in August. ...

Western Union plans big migration to Amazon’s cloud platform

Amazon Web Services Inc. has landed a major new customer in the financial services sector. The Western Union Company said today it has chosen Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing company as its “preferred long-term strategic cloud provider” and will press ahead with plans to move “a significant portion” of its computing infrastructure to the public cloud ...

IBM ships out two new open-source tools for Kubernetes developers

Taking center stage at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon co-located events in San Diego today, IBM Corp. announced two new open-source tools for the Kubernetes ecosystem, as well as updates to two of its existing projects. The new tools include Kui, which is meant to ease the oftentimes “chunky experience” developers have to deal with when ...

Intel unveils graphics chip and software for high-performance computing and AI

Intel Corp. is turning its attention to the convergence of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence with the launch late today of a new general-purpose graphics processing unit that’s optimized for both types of workloads. In addition, Intel announced its oneAPI initiative, which aims to provide a simpler programming model for developing HPC and AI applications that can run ...

Google flexes conversational AI muscle with updates to Contact Center AI and CallJoy

Google LLC’s Contact Center AI service hit general availability Thursday, giving business an easier way to provide more personalized customer care services to their clients. Announced in July, Contact Center AI is powered by Google’s Dialogflow conversational artificial intelligence engine, which helps automate interactions with customers in call enters. The service also offers a Virtual ...

Nvidia beats earnings forecast on solid growth in cloud and gaming

Nvidia Corp. beat expectations in its third quarter financial results today, but its stock fell slightly after it posted revenue guidance for the next quarter that came up short. The maker of chips for computer graphics and artificial intelligence reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.78 per share on revenue of $3.01 ...
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Amazon protests Pentagon’s cloud contract award, citing ‘unmistakable bias’

Amazon Web Services Inc. will protest the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to award a key cloud computing contract to its rival Microsoft Corp., the company confirmed Thursday. AWS filed paperwork with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims regarding its legal protest last Friday. The Federal Times reported that AWS Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy held an ...