Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Nvidia’s latest A100 graphics processor debuts on Google Cloud

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2020

Nvidia Corp. today announced the availability of its latest high-performance graphics processing unit on Google LLC’s public cloud platform. The Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU is now available in alpha as part of the…

Cloud

VMware’s Contour becomes the CNCF’s latest incubation-level project

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2020

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation said today it has accepted Contour, an open-source ingress controller for Kubernetes, as its latest incubation-level project. Contour was first built by a company called Heptio Inc., which was…

NEWS

F5 Networks debuts new tool to protect against fake web traffic

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2020

With a new security service introduced today, network traffic management company F5 Networks Inc. said it’s helping its enterprise customers to protect themselves against malicious bots and other types of automated attacks on their…

Apps

Samsung expects second-quarter profits to grow 22% on chip demand

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2020

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. saw its stock price waver early today despite issuing strong second-quarter preliminary earnings guidance that comfortably beat analysts’ forecasts. The company said later Mondday that its operating profit is expected to…

Cloud

AWS Outposts adds support for managed cloud database services

By Mike Wheatley Jul 6, 2020

Amazon Web Services Inc. said today its hybrid cloud platform AWS Outposts now supports its Amazon Relational Database Service, making it possible for customers to create RDS database instances inside their own data centers.…

NEWS

Privacy advocates urge closer scrutiny of Google’s Fitbit acquisition

By Mike Wheatley Jul 2, 2020

Google LLC’s proposed $2.1 billion acquisition of wearable fitness tracker device company Fitbit Inc. is coming under more scrutiny after several consumer advocacy groups from around the world joined forces to demand a closer…

Cloud

VMware buys Blue Medora’s True Visibility business unit

By Mike Wheatley Jul 2, 2020

Software virtualization giant VMware Inc. today announced its second acquisition in as many days, saying it intends to buy the team and technology behind Blue Medora Inc.’s True Visibility Suite. The idea with the acquisition…

Emerging Tech

Peter Thiel-backed defense technology startup Anduril raises $200M

By Mike Wheatley Jul 1, 2020

Defense technology startup Anduril Industries Inc. said today it has raised $200 million in a new funding round that takes its valuation to $1.9 billion. The funds, which came from several venture capital firms,…

Big Data

Confluent brings infinite data retention to Apache Kafka

By Mike Wheatley Jul 1, 2020

Apache Kafka startup Confluent Inc. today debuted a new infinite data retention feature within its Confluent Cloud platform that enables customers to store as much related information as they want. Apache Kafka is a…

Cloud

VMware swoops in to buy disaster recovery firm Datrium

By Mike Wheatley Jul 1, 2020

VMware Inc. said today it’s planning to make another acquisition, this time buying cloud-based disaster recovery specialist Datrium Inc. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Datrium has raised about $120 million…

Mike Wheatley

Samsung expects second-quarter profits to grow 22% on chip demand

AWS Outposts adds support for managed cloud database services

Privacy advocates urge closer scrutiny of Google’s Fitbit acquisition

VMware buys Blue Medora’s True Visibility business unit

Peter Thiel-backed defense technology startup Anduril raises $200M

VMware swoops in to buy disaster recovery firm Datrium

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