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

Facebook’s BlenderBot 2.0 chatbot can learn and remember new things by itself

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY5 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit has open-sourced what it claims is the first chatbot in the world that’s capable of building a long-term memory that can be continually accessed. That, combined with its ability to search the internet for up-to-date information, …

Intel exploring deal to buy US chipmaker GlobalFoundries for $30B

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY5 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. is said to be in talks about acquiring the chipmaker GlobalFoundries Inc. in a deal that could be worth as much as $30 billion, which would make it Intel’s largest-ever acquisition. The news was first reported by the Wall Street …

Splunk announces 3 new top execs to help accelerate its cloud transition

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY5 YEARS AGO

Big-data analytics player Splunk Inc. announced a trio of key executive executive hires today who have been tasked with helping accelerate its cloud product and marketing strategies going forward. The appointments include Sendur Sellakumar, who has been hired as the company’s first-ever …

Bell Canada taps Google Cloud to support its 5G network

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY5 YEARS AGO

Google LLC’s cloud customer acquisition spree continued apace today as the company announced a strategic partnership with BCE Inc., better known as Bell Canada, to power its ongoing digital transformation and enhance its network and information technology infrastructure. Google said the multiyear …

Zededa partners with Google Cloud to simplify edge application deployment

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY5 YEARS AGO

Edge computing orchestration startup Zededa Inc. is partnering with Google LLC, helping Google Cloud customers scale up their edge application deployments securely with a choice of different infrastructure platforms. Founded in 2016, Zededa sells an open-source orchestration platform for deploying applications at …

Microsoft announces Cloud PCs that can run on any device with Windows 365

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY5 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. will launch a new virtual machine service next month called Windows 365 that will enable business workers to access “Cloud PCs” from any web browser. The company said in a blog post today that Windows 365 will be able to stream …

Illumio beefs up zero-trust security with automated policy enforcement

SECURITY By MIKE WHEATLEY5 YEARS AGO

Zero-trust security startup Illumio Inc. has wasted no time in putting its late-stage $225 million funding round to good use. It’s adding new features to its platform today that make it easier to automate security enforcement, provide more intelligent insights from real-time …

WebOps company Pantheon hits unicorn status with $100M in late-stage funding

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY5 YEARS AGO

Web operations startup Pantheon Systems Inc. hit unicorn status today with a $100 million late-starge round of funding that takes its value to more than $1 billion. The sole investor in the Series E round was SoftBank Vision Fund 2, bringing Pantheon’s …

Amazon acquires Facebook’s satellite internet experts to boost broadband plans

EMERGING TECH By MIKE WHEATLEY5 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc.’s space ambitions got a big boost today with the news that it acquired more than a dozen satellite internet experts from rival Facebook Inc. The talent acquisition was completed in April but only reported today by The Information. That report …

SAS Institute decides against selling itself to Broadcom after all, reports say

BIG DATA By MIKE WHEATLEY5 YEARS AGO

Data analytics firm SAS Institute Inc. has reportedly backed out of talks with Broadcom Inc. over a possible sale, following a change of heart by its owners. SAS Institute’s valuation has been a topic of intense discussion in the tech industry following …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Facebook’s BlenderBot 2.0 chatbot can learn and remember new things by itself

Intel exploring deal to buy US chipmaker GlobalFoundries for $30B

Illumio beefs up zero-trust security with automated policy enforcement

WebOps company Pantheon hits unicorn status with $100M in late-stage funding

Amazon acquires Facebook’s satellite internet experts to boost broadband plans

SAS Institute decides against selling itself to Broadcom after all, reports say

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