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

Gartner forecasts a cloudy future for the database market

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

The future of the database market is looking increasingly cloudy. Analyst firm Gartner Inc. is predicting that three quarters of all database deployments will be made to the cloud within just three years, and that few will ever return to on-premises environments. The …

Google pushes for its robots.txt parser to become internet standard

APPS By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Google LLC is pushing for its decades-old Robots Exclusion Protocol to be certified as an official internet standard, so today it open-sourced its robots.txt parser as part of that effort. The REP, as it’s known, is a protocol that website owners can use …

IBM completes sale of its Watson Marketing business

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. said today that its Watson Marketing platform has launched as a standalone company, about three months after saying it was planning to sell the commerce and marketing cloud business to an investment firm called Centerbridge Partners L.P. The new company, …

Applied Materials buys Japan’s Kokusai for $2.2B to boost memory-chip presence

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Semiconductor industry equipment supplier Applied Materials Inc., one of the largest makers of software and machines used by chipmakers such as Intel Corp., today said it has reached a deal to acquire Kokusai Electric Corp. for about $2.2 billion. Kokusai will operate …

Huawei sales ban reprieve covers only ‘widely available’ products

POLICY By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

White House officials have moved to clarify U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to relax a ban on American companies doing business with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. Reuters reported today that the sanctions reprieve will only apply to products that are “widely available” …

Google is building another private subsea cable to link Europe with Africa

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Google LLC said today it’s building another private subsea cable, this time linking Western Europe with the African continent. The new subsea cable, called “Equiano,” and will run from Lisbon in Portugal all the way down the west coast of Africa to …

IBM and Trifacta collaborate on new data prep tool for AI models

AI By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is trying to address the cumbersome and time-consuming process of preparing data for use in artificial intelligence and machine learning model training with a new data preparation tool it developed in tandem with Trifacta Inc. The companies point out that …

Software-as-a-service spending poised to hit $100B annually

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Analyst firm Synergy Research Group today provided an update on the state of the enterprise software-as-a-service market, saying that it’s on track to hit a $100 billion annual run rate in the current quarter. Synergy’s data shows the market grew by more than 30% …

Google debuts Deep Learning Containers in beta

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Google LLC this week announced the beta availability of a new cloud service that provides environments optimized for deploying and testing applications powered by deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence that tries to mimic the way the human brain tackles problems. …

Oracle launches a more secure version of its Autonomous Database service

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY7 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. is adding a new private database service option called Autonomous Database Dedicated for customers that can’t run their most critical workloads on its public cloud infrastructure platform. The company said the new service announced today is designed for enterprises that have …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Google pushes for its robots.txt parser to become internet standard

Applied Materials buys Japan’s Kokusai for $2.2B to boost memory-chip presence

Huawei sales ban reprieve covers only ‘widely available’ products

Google is building another private subsea cable to link Europe with Africa

IBM and Trifacta collaborate on new data prep tool for AI models

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