Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Oracle posts strong earnings, but cloud progress still slow

By Mike Wheatley Mar 14, 2019

Updated: Oracle Corp.’s shares took a small hit late today even though the database and business software giant posted better-than-expected quarterly results and guidance. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation…

Cloud

Service mesh company Buoyant lands $10M to take on Google’s Istio

By Mike Wheatley Mar 14, 2019

Open source service mesh company Buoyant Inc. is trying to take on Google LLC after landing a $10 million investment that was led by none other than Google’s venture capital arm GV. Benchmark and A.Capital…

Big Data

Multimodel database company ArangoDB lands $10M in funding

By Mike Wheatley Mar 14, 2019

Database startup ArangoDB GmbH says it has relocated its headquarters to the U.S. after landing a $10 million Series A round of financing. The Series A round was led by Bow Capital, with participation…

AI

Apple reveals it acquired an AI startup called Laserlike, likely to improve Siri

By Mike Wheatley Mar 13, 2019

Apple Inc. reportedly acquired a startup last year called Laserlike Inc., which built software that uses machine learning to search the web for information and deliver personalized results to users. According to a report in The Information today,…

Big Data

Big-data firm Cloudera crashes on lower earnings and guidance

By Mike Wheatley Mar 13, 2019

Updated: Big-data company Cloudera Inc. saw its stock take a beating late Wednesday after posting a wider-than-expected loss for the quarter just gone. The company, which sells software based on Apache Hadoop and related technologies for…

Big Data

MongoDB’s shares jump as it crushes earnings expectations

By Mike Wheatley Mar 13, 2019

Update: Database company MongoDB Inc. crushed expectations today with blowout fourth-quarter earnings that sent its stock price soaring in after-hours trading. Several major technology firms have posted disappointing results in the current earnings season,…

Emerging Tech

IBM claims a quantum leap in machine learning

By Mike Wheatley Mar 13, 2019

IBM Corp. researchers reckon they’ve come up with new algorithms capable of enabling advanced machine learning on quantum computers. In a paper published today on arXiv, a repository for non-peer-reviewed academic papers, IBM’s research…

Cloud

Google opens up its sixth European cloud region in Zurich

By Mike Wheatley Mar 13, 2019

Google LLC Tuesday announced the opening of its sixth European cloud region, its 19th worldwide. Located in Zurich, Switzerland, the new region consists of three availability zones, which means it’s made up of three…

Apps

Report: Uber accelerates IPO plans, hiring more underwriters

By Mike Wheatley Mar 13, 2019

Ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. is making progress toward its goal of launching an initial public offering, as it has hired a string of underwriters to help lay the groundwork for its IPO, Reuters reported…

Cloud

AWS launches new Open Distro for Elasticsearch

By Mike Wheatley Mar 11, 2019

Updated with comment from Elastic: Amazon Web Services Inc. is boosting its open-source credentials with today’s release of its new Open Distro for Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a business-focused search engine for structured and unstructured data…

Mike Wheatley

Apple reveals it acquired an AI startup called Laserlike, likely to improve Siri

Big-data firm Cloudera crashes on lower earnings and guidance

IBM claims a quantum leap in machine learning

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