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.

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Exclusive video: Conversational intelligence startup Kubiya wants to become the Siri for DevOps teams

Armed with $6 million in seed funding, startup Kubiya Inc. is on a mission to use its advanced capabilities in conversational intelligence to make life easier for overburdened DevOps teams. Using its software, operators now have a self-service, Siri-like option that enables them to express what they’re trying to achieve in natural language, and have a ...

Meta contributes Grand Teton AI infrastructure platform to the Open Compute Project

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced its latest big contribution to the Open Compute Project: Grand Teton, a new, next-generation platform for artificial intelligence at large scale. Meta was famously one of the founding members of the OCP, which came into being way back in 2012. At the time it was focused mostly on creating standards ...

Open Compute Project announces Caliptra, a new standard for trust in hardware

Key members of the Open Compute Project have come together to create a new open specification for a silicon Root of Trust, called Caliptra, that’s designed to meet the enhanced security requirements of modern edge and confidential computing use cases. Announced today at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California, Caliptra is said to ...

Google’s contributions to OCP to aid server performance, reliability, trust and sustainability

Google LLC today revealed a number of key contributions it has made toward open hardware ecosystems as part of its commitment to the Open Compute Project. They include a new vision of a “multibrained” server of the future, as well as enhancements in areas such as “trusted” and “reliable” computing, the company announced during the ...

RisingWave lands $36M to democratize access to stream processing and real-time data

Cloud-native streaming database startup RisingWave Labs Ltd. said today it has closed on a $36 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to date to more than $40 million. Today’s round was led by Yunqui Partners, the investment arm of a leading global gaming company and included the participation of several unnamed ...

Cisco’s latest network switches promise higher bandwidth using less power to support data center sustainability

Computer networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. took the opportunity at this year’s Open Compute Project Global Summit to showcase a host of updates to its portfolio of network chips and switches for cloud operators. The new innovations on display today promise to help “redefine the economics of the cloud,” the company said, bringing customers closer ...

Prenuvo raises $70M in early-stage funding to make preventative MRI scans more accessible

Healthcare technology startup Prenuvo Inc. said today it has raised $70 million in an early-stage funding round that will go some way toward helping it achieve its goal of reinventing the traditional physical health check and bringing preventive care to more people. Today’s Series A round was led by Felicis and saw participation from a ...

Tableau Software updates focus on helping new users and building better dashboards

Salesforce Inc.’s data visualization platform Tableau Software is introducing a major update that promises to help customers unlock more data insights, build better dashboards and make more accurate predictions using artificial intelligence. The new updates were announced today with the Tableau 2022.3 release, with the headline feature the new Data Guide for Tableau dashboards. As ...

Microsoft drops Office branding in favor of Microsoft 365

Microsoft Corp. is dropping the iconic Office branding for its suite of productivity tools after more than 30 years, renaming it Microsoft 365. The change doesn’t mean applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint will disappear, but they will instead be lumped under the Microsoft 365 umbrella, as opposed to the Office branding. The ...

AWS partners with BMW on cloud-based vehicle data platform to power a new generation of connected cars

Amazon Web Services Inc. is looking to play an expanded role in the development of connected vehicles. The company said today it has partnered with BMW Group to create an entirely new and customizable cloud software offering that helps to simplify the way data is distributed and managed from millions of connected cars. The new ...