Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

NEWS

Salesforce stock jumps as customer software giant’s earnings top forecast

By Mike Wheatley Aug 22, 2019

Salesforce.com Inc. ticked all the boxes today as it reported second-quarter earnings that beat forecasts and provided guidance for the next quarter that surpassed what was expected. The company, which sells software for managing…

Cloud

VMware pays billions to acquire Pivotal Software and Carbon Black

By Mike Wheatley Aug 22, 2019

Virtualization giant VMware Inc. put its money where its mouth is today, announcing the acquisitions of software development platform provider Pivotal Software Inc. and cybersecurity firm Carbon Black Inc. VMware said it’s buying Pivotal…

NEWS

Protests prompt Alibaba to delay Hong Kong stock exchange listing

By Mike Wheatley Aug 21, 2019

Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will reportedly postpone an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange because of ongoing political tensions in the territory. Alibaba’s listing was scheduled to take…

Infra

Pure Storage beats earnings forecasts but lowers guidance

By Mike Wheatley Aug 21, 2019

Pure Storage Inc. reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings today, but it slashed revenue guidance for the next three months because of ongoing oversupply issues in the flash storage market. The company, which sells a mix…

Big Data

Splunk acquires application monitoring firm SignalFX for $1.05B

By Mike Wheatley Aug 21, 2019

Big data analytics company Splunk Inc. announced its largest-ever acquisition today as it delivered second-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street’s forecasts. Splunk said it’s intending to buy the cloud application monitoring firm SignalFX…

Security

Big tech firms join forces to advance ‘confidential computing’

By Mike Wheatley Aug 21, 2019

A raft of big technology firms is backing a new Linux Foundation-led initiative that aims to promote the concept of “confidential computing,” or encrypting data while it’s in use. The Foundation said in a…

NEWS

Box adds stricter access controls and threat detection capabilities

By Mike Wheatley Aug 21, 2019

Cloud content management company Box Inc. is bringing new content security controls and intelligent threat detection capabilities to its users with the launch today of Box Shield. Box Shield was announced as a private beta…

AI

H20.ai gets $72.5M funding to bring AI to the masses

By Mike Wheatley Aug 20, 2019

Artificial intelligence firm H20.ai Inc. has just bagged a $72.5 million round of funding as it looks to further its mission of democratizing AI for businesses of all shapes and sizes. The Series D…

Apps

Report: Apple’s health team suffers employee departures amid internal strife

By Mike Wheatley Aug 20, 2019

Apple Inc.’s health team is in crisis, hit by a series of high-profile departures over the last year as a result of internal disagreements over its direction, according to a report by CNBC. The…

NEWS

Meet Springhill: Intel debuts its first chip for machine learning workloads

By Mike Wheatley Aug 20, 2019

Intel Corp. today quietly announced its first dedicated artificial intelligence processor at a special event in Haifa, Israel. The Nervana Neural Network Processor for Inference (pictured), also known as “Springhill,” was developed at Intel’s labs in…

Mike Wheatley

Pure Storage beats earnings forecasts but lowers guidance

Big tech firms join forces to advance ‘confidential computing’

H20.ai gets $72.5M funding to bring AI to the masses

Report: Apple’s health team suffers employee departures amid internal strife

Meet Springhill: Intel debuts its first chip for machine learning workloads

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