Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Infra

Cisco falls on poor guidance and plummeting sales in China

By Mike Wheatley Aug 14, 2019

Even after the stock market bloodbath today, networking company Cisco Systems Inc. took even more of a beating later after posting weaker-than-expected guidance in its fourth-quarter earnings report. In the three months just gone, Cisco…

Cloud

All in the Dell family: VMware in talks to acquire Pivotal Software

By Mike Wheatley Aug 14, 2019

Pivotal Software Inc. is looking to reunite with its parent company VMware Inc., which spun it out in 2013. The companies, which are both majority-owned by Dell Technologies Inc., said they’re holding talks regarding…

Cloud

Virtual Instruments acquires Metricly to help customers optimize cloud spending

By Mike Wheatley Aug 14, 2019

Infrastructure performance management firm Virtual Instruments Inc. is adding cloud cost optimization to its repertoire of skills through the acquisition today of Metricly Inc. Virtual Instruments provides tools that help companies to understand, manage,…

Cloud

Canada’s Globe and Mail adopts Amazon’s AI services to promote its content

By Mike Wheatley Aug 14, 2019

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s artificial intelligence and machine learning credentials have gotten a boost from Canada’s most popular newspaper, The Globe and Mail. The newspaper said today it has chosen AWS as its “standard”…

Infra

Cray lands $600M Nuclear Security Administration supercomputer contract

By Mike Wheatley Aug 13, 2019

Cray Inc. has signed a $600 million contract to provide the National Nuclear Security Administration with its first exascale supercomputer. The new machine, called El Capitan, will be delivered in 2022 before going online…

AI

Nvidia claims new breakthroughs in real-time conversational AI

By Mike Wheatley Aug 13, 2019

Nvidia Corp. is claiming another big breakthrough in artificial intelligence, this time setting new records in language understanding that could enable real-time conversational AI in a variety of software applications. Nvidia said real-time conversational…

Infra

Data center storage firm Pavilion Data Systems raises $25M

By Mike Wheatley Aug 13, 2019

Data center hardware maker Pavilion Data Systems Inc. is gearing up for expansion after closing on a $25 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $58 million. Announced today, the…

Big Data

Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera

By Mike Wheatley Aug 12, 2019

The notorious activist investor and billionaire Carl Icahn (pictured) has claimed two seats on Cloudera Inc.’s board of directors just weeks after taking an 18.4% stake in the company. Icahn, who is perhaps best…

Policy

Russia asks Google not to advertise ‘illegal’ protests on YouTube

By Mike Wheatley Aug 11, 2019

Russia’s communications watchdog Roscomnadzor has asked Google LLC to stop advertising what it calls “illegal mass events” on its YouTube service. The request comes after “multiple channels” on the platform broadcast live footage of…

Cloud

Dropbox beats earnings estimates but stock falls on slower customer growth

By Mike Wheatley Aug 8, 2019

Updated: Shares in cloud storage company Dropbox Inc. took a beating today after it fell short on a key quarterly metric that indicates future growth and reported its slowest growth in paid users since…

Mike Wheatley

Cray lands $600M Nuclear Security Administration supercomputer contract

Nvidia claims new breakthroughs in real-time conversational AI

Data center storage firm Pavilion Data Systems raises $25M

Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera

Russia asks Google not to advertise ‘illegal’ protests on YouTube

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