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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Amazon HealthLake helps healthcare providers analyze unstructured medical data

Amazon Web Services Inc. said today during its re:Invent 2020 virtual conference that it’s upping its medical chops with the launch of a new service that healthcare providers can use to store, transform and analyze life science data in the cloud at petabyte scale. The service is called Amazon HealthLake, and it’s essentially a data ...

MongoDB beats earnings targets again

Managed database service company MongoDB Inc. handily beat estimates in its third-quarter financial results today, raising its end-of-year outlook in the process. The company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 31 cents per share on revenue of $150.8 million, up 38% from the same period one year ago. That was better ...

Cisco goes big on collaboration with new features, integrations and devices for Webex

Cisco Systems Inc. introduced a huge array of updates to its Webex communications and collaboration platform at its WebexOne virtual event today, as it bids to keep pace with rival platforms such as Zoom, Slack and Microsoft Teams. Cisco said the COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that remote interactions will be a key part of ...

New customers help Amazon showcase its cloud capabilities

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s ongoing customer acquisition spree gathered pace today with the news that Thomson Reuters Corp. and ViacomCBS Inc. have migrated large portions of their information technology infrastructure to its cloud. Thomson Reuters’ migration to the AWS cloud can serve as a template for companies with similarly large IT stacks, because it managed ...

Google teams up with partners to accelerate app deployment at the network edge

Google LLC is expanding its edge capabilities with a new program that combines its Anthos hybrid application development platform and artificial intelligence tools with its own and its communication service providers’ existing global networks. The plan is to help customers develop and deploy vertical services and applications at the edge more rapidly, Google said. This ...

Google aims to help government agencies adapt to remote collaboration and interactions

Google LLC announced some new cloud-based tools today that it says will help government agencies and their employees adapt more easily to the challenges presented by the reality of remote work. The new tools, which debuted today at the two-day Google Cloud Public Sector Summit online and will be available in early 2021, include a special ...

Google Cloud partners with Rubin Observatory to advance astronomical discovery

Google LLC said today it’s helping to advance astronomical research, using its cloud platform to host the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Interim Data Facility. The Rubin IDF will be used to collect and host vast amounts of astronomical data ahead of a planned 10-year survey of the southern skies. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time, ...

Nvidia breakthrough enables AI training with limited datasets

Nvidia Corp.’s scientific research team has come up with way to train artificial intelligence models using just a fraction of the study material that’s normally required. The new method, announced today, involves applying a special training technique to the popular Nvidia StyleGAN2 neural network that’s used to train AI-based image generators. With the technique, researchers reduced ...

DocuSign reports 54% revenue growth as it smashes earnings expectations

DocuSign Inc., the company that provides digital document signing tools for companies and people, saw its stock rise in after-hours trading today after reporting third-quarter financial results that blew past Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 22 cents per share on revenue of $382.92 million, up 54% ...

Stock of cloud subscription firm Zuora jumps on earnings and revenue beat

Shares of Zuora Inc. rose today after the cloud subscription services company posted third-quarter financial results that topped Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of a penny a share on revenue of $77.2 million, up 8% from the same quarter last year. Analysts had modeled a wider loss ...