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

Data analytics firm Splunk sees 81% jump in quarterly cloud software bookings

Updated: Data analytics company Splunk Inc. saw its stock rise after-hours despite reporting first-quarter revenue that came in below market expectations. The company, which sells software enterprises use to search, correlate, analyze, monitor and report on data in real time, reported a first-quarter loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 56 cents per ...

Solo.io intros API management tools for the open-source Istio service mesh

Cloud-native software company Solo.io Inc. today is making available what it says is the industry’s first Istio Developer Portal, which aims to streamline the onboarding process for developers in order to improve experiences and productivity. Solo sells software that helps companies address the challenges of implementing microservices, which are the components of modern, containerized applications that ...

Apple and Google launch COVID-19 contact tracing technology

Apple Inc. and Google LLC today officially launched their COVID-19 contact tracing technology for public health agencies across the globe. Some 22 countries and three U.S. states have expressed an interest in using the Exposure Notifications System application programming interface, which is designed to be used by PHAs to build their own contact tracing applications. ...

Intel buys Rivet Networks for its high-performance Wi-Fi technology

Intel Corp. said today it has acquired a company called Rivet Networks LLC, maker of the Killer Networking line of Wi-Fi network interface cards used in laptops from brands such as Dell Technologies Inc., HP Inc. and Alienware. Intel didn’t reveal how much it is paying to acquire Rivet Networks. It said the company’s Killer ...

Box enables zero-trust-based access to its content from any device

Cloud content management and collaboration company Box Inc. is helping customers to enable “zero-trust” policy enforcement by revamping its Box Device Trust service. Box officials said the sudden shift to working at home has created a new security challenge for organizations, which need to keep their most valuable content secure while ensuring it can be accessed by ...

Software-as-a-service monitoring firm BetterCloud raises $75M

Software-as-a-service management company BetterCloud Inc. today said it has raised $75 million in a fresh round of funding led by the private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Existing investors Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, New Amsterdam Growth Capital, Greycroft and e.ventures also participated in the round, which brings BetterCloud’s total amount raised to $182 million. ...

Container security startup Aqua Security raises $30M

Aqua Security Software Ltd.’s latest funding round shows there’s still a big appetite for container security tools in the enterprise. The company today said it has just raised $30 million in a Series D round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to more than $130 million. Greenspring Associates led the latest round, which also saw ...

Docker partners with Snyk on container image vulnerability scanning

Software container company Docker Inc. said today it’s teaming up with the British cybersecurity startup Snyk Ltd. to provide what it said is the first native vulnerability scanning service for container images. The companies said they intend to create a more streamlined workflow that will secure the application development process for millions of developers who ...

At digital Build conference, Microsoft unifies Windows app development, boosts Teams and AI

Microsoft Corp. kicked off its annual developer conference Build 2020 today with new services to unify Windows application development, additional Teams services and even a supercomputer for artificial intelligence available through its Azure cloud service. This year’s event is quite a bit different from previous editions, as safety concerns around the coronavirus pandemic prompted Microsoft to transform ...

Xilinx’s new smaller programmable chips enable machine learning in space

Xilinx Inc. today launched what it says is the industry’s first-ever 20-nanometer, space-grade field-programmable gate array, which is a special kind of computer chip built on an integrated circuit that can be reprogrammed for specific computing tasks. The new 20nm Radiation Tolerant Kintex UltraScale XQRKU060 FPGA is designed for use in orbital satellites, and delivers a ...