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

Eyesight Technologies updates its driver monitoring system for mask-wearing truckers

Computer vision startup Eyesight Technologies Ltd. announced today that its driver monitoring software can now detect whether drivers are distracted or feeling drowsy, even if they’re wearing a face mask. The update to its Driver Sense platform is meant to help maintain driver safety at a time when increasing numbers of them are required to wear ...

New Relic brings AIOps to the fore with new application monitoring tools

Application monitoring firm New Relic Inc. today debuted new artificial intelligence operations capabilities aimed at helping DevOps, network operations and site reliability engineering teams to identify and resolve problems with their information technology infrastructure more quickly. The idea is to boost the capabilities of New Relic One, which is the company’s main “observability platform” for detecting problems with ...

Seeqc raises $5M to develop a hybrid quantum computer

New York-based quantum computing startup Seeqc Inc. today said it has closed on a $5 million round of funding from M Ventures, the venture capital arm of German pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. As part of the deal, Merck will become a strategic partner of Seeqc’s, helping it in its quest to build an “application ...

Gartner now says global semiconductor revenue will decline in 2020

Research firm Gartner Inc. today revised its forecast for the global semiconductor market, saying it now expects revenues to decline as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Gartner had previously forecast the semiconductor industry to grow by around 12.5% this year, but it now says the market will decline 0.9%, representing a percentage change of 11.6 points. Gartner ...

CNCF to host Dragonfly, a cloud-native file distribution system for Kubernetes

The Cloud Native Computing today announced its second incubation-level hosted project this week: Dragonfly, an open-source, cloud-native image and file distribution system for Kubernetes users. Dragonfly was created in 2015 by engineers at Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The goal was to improve the way images and files are distributed ...

Mozilla names Chairwoman Mitchell Baker its new CEO

Mozilla Corp., the nonprofit group behind the open-source Firefox browser, today named Chairwoman Mitchell Baker its new chief executive officer. She replaces former CEO Chris Beard, who stepped down at the end of last year. The appointment of Baker (pictured) is a logical choice for Mozilla given that she has been with the organization since 2003. ...

Amazon makes massive dataset available to coronavirus researchers

Amazon Web Services Inc. is throwing more resources at the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, hosting and curating a massive public dataset relating to the coronavirus. The company announced today that it’s making available an AWS COVID-19 dataset, which it says is a centralized repository of data and other information regarding the spread of the novel ...

Sysdig brings its monitoring capabilities to IBM’s public cloud

Container security startup Sysdig Inc. today expanded its integration with IBM Corp. to include the breadth of its cloud services, infrastructure and application development tools. The expanded integration gives admins and developers access to a fully managed, enterprise-grade monitoring service that spans IBM’s entire public cloud portfolio. Sysdig sells tools for securing container environments that are used to host ...

Box’s Shield security service gets new malware detection tools

Cloud storage company Box Inc. today added new automated malware detection and controls to its Box Shield security tools, which are used to protect content hosted in its cloud. Box Shield, announced last August and launched in December, enables company administrators to protect their data by automatically or manually setting security classifications and policies for specific types of files ...

Solo.io open-sources its Service Mesh Hub for microservices

Cloud-native software company Solo.io Inc. said today it’s open-sourcing an internal project called Service Mesh Hub, which provides a unified dashboard for companies that want to install, operate and extend a single service mesh or group of meshes. Founded in 2017, Solo is a company that sells software that helps to address the challenges faced ...