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 Transcribe Call Analytics provides more intelligence for customer service calls

Amazon Web Services Inc. is boosting its AWS Contact Center Intelligence offering with a new call transcription analytics tool that it said can generate more insights from customer conversations. Announced today, Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is a machine learning-powered conversation insights application programming interface. It’s meant to work with the existing Amazon Transcribe tool that’s ...

Western Digital crushes expectations in Q4, shipping record enterprise HDD capacity

Western Digital Corp. put in a strong shift at the end of its fiscal 2021 year, with growth across all of its businesses driving fourth quarter results that beat expectations. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.16 per share on revenue of $4.9 billion, up 15% from the same ...

VMware Horizon gets Universal Brokering for enhanced virtual desktop connectivity

VMware Inc. has announced some updates to its virtual desktop infrastructure and desktop-as-a-service platform Horizon that it says will make it easier to manage hybrid and multicloud environments. More specifically, today’s updates should help information technology teams that have to manage fleets of virtual desktops and applications at a time when remote work policies remain ...

Dismal guidance sends Alteryx stock tumbling after-hours

Big data company Alteryx Inc.’s stock tumbled in after-hours trading today after it offered an outlook that was some way below Wall Street’s expectations. That came after a strong second quarter performance. The company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 8 cents per share on revenue of $120 million, up ...

New Relic beats expectations but slow customer growth weighs on stock

New Relic Inc., the observability software provider, delivered strong first quarter results today with a smaller than expected loss and revenue that came in ahead of Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 25 cents per share on revenue of $180.5 million, up 11% from a ...

Software delivery startup Harness adds cloud cost management tools

Continuous software delivery startup Harness Inc. is aiming to help its customers rein in their cloud computing expenses with the launch of an intelligent cloud cost management module. Harness is best known for its continuous delivery-as-a-service platform that relies on machine learning algorithms to monitor new software releases in case they create problems. The service ...

Traceable extends application API security with free offering

Application programming interface security startup Traceable Inc. is hoping to get more traction among enterprises with a free version of its main security product. The company said today its free offering will help DevOps and security operations teams gain more visibility and protection for their application’s APIs, as well as analytical insights. Founded in 2018, ...

Juniper’s Cloud Workload Protection helps defend against application exploits in real-time

Juniper Networks Inc. is boosting application security today with the launch of a new Cloud Workload Protection offering that’s able to defend apps running in the cloud or on-premises from exploit-based attacks as they happen. Application vulnerabilities are one of the most common causes of data breaches. Errors in application code can present opportunities for ...

Arista Networks easily beats Wall Street’s earnings and revenue guidance

Cloud network company Arista Networks Inc. ticked all of the right boxes today as it delivered its second-quarter financial results today, beating estimates on earnings and revenue and posting strong guidance for the next period too. Yet the company’s stock fell anyway in the after-hours trading session. The company reported second-quarter earnings before certain costs ...

Chipmaker NXP delivers strong earnings while supply chain problems persist

Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors N.V. posted strong second-quarter financial results today, beating on earnings and revenue due to a strong performance from its automotive chip segment. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.44 per share on revenue of $2.5.9 billion, up 43% from a year ago. Analysts had called ...