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

IonQ raises $55M to pursue alternative approach to quantum computing

EMERGING TECH By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Catalyst Fund and Mubdala Capital, a sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates, are the lead investors in a $55 million round of funding announced today for quantum computing startup IonQ Inc. New investors ACME Capital, Airbus Ventures, …

Defense Secretary Mark Esper pulls out of JEDI cloud computing contract review

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has removed himself from the review process of the Pentagon’s highly lucrative Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract after it was revealed that one of his adult sons is working at onetime bidder IBM Corp. …

Former Google VP Chet Kapoor joins DataStax as CEO

BIG DATA By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Database company DataStax Inc. has a new chief executive officer today: former Google LLC Vice President Chet Kapoor. He replaces outgoing CEO Billy Bosworth, who will leave the company in a few weeks following a short transition period. Bosworth said in a blog …

Big-data firm Databricks bags $400M late-stage funding round

BIG DATA By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Investors are upping their stakes in the big data company Databricks Inc., which today said it has bagged a massive $400 million round of funding. The Series F round was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Late Stage Venture Fund and saw participation from …

Splunk offers expanded data access and real-time stream processing

BIG DATA By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Big data analytics company Splunk Inc. early today announced the general availability of its new Data Fabric Search and Data Stream Processor capabilities in the on-premises and cloud versions of its Data-to-Everything Platform. The goal, it said, is to enable federated search …

Adobe brings its Magento e-commerce platform to AWS and Azure

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Adobe Systems Inc. today announced some updates to its Magento Commerce platform that’s used by small and medium businesses to run their e-commerce operations. Adobe acquired the open-source Magento platform for $1.68 billion last year. The Magento Commerce platform is an online retail …

Nvidia debuts supercomputing platform to deliver AI at the network edge

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Nvidia Corp. took to the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles late Monday to announce availability of its new EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform that’s all about harnessing so-called “edge data” for artificial intelligence purposes. Nvidia founder and Chief Executive …

IBM debuts new capabilities for Watson Anywhere AI initiative

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. today updated its Watson AI tools to help customers eliminate some of the data complexities that prevent them from implementing artificial intelligence-based technologies. The updates are all part of IBM’s so-called “Watson Anywhere” initiative that involves scaling AI across any kind …

Rebranded as Virtana, Virtual Instruments debuts cloud cost optimization platform

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Virtual Instruments Inc. is moving beyond simple information technology infrastructure management, rebranding itself as “Virtana” and debuting a new cloud cost optimization platform called “CloudWisdom” that’s tightly integrated with its main offering. The company makes a living selling tools that help enterprises …

IT spending is falling, but cloud sees more acceleration

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Enterprises are tightening the purse strings in the fourth quarter of 2019, with spending on information technology infrastructure set to fall from a year ago. That’s according to the latest forecast from Enterprise Technology Research. Dave Vellante, chief analyst at SiliconANGLE sister …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

IonQ raises $55M to pursue alternative approach to quantum computing

Former Google VP Chet Kapoor joins DataStax as CEO

Big-data firm Databricks bags $400M late-stage funding round

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