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

Red Hat beefs up container security, adds new storage functionality

Just like every other major tech vendor, containers are a big focus for Red Hat Inc., which is aiming to retool its enterprise products around the technology. As part of that drive, the company yesterday showed off two new container security scanning solutions that can be run from within its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ...

Backblaze launches dirt cheap storage offering to compete with Amazon

Cloud backup and storage services provider Backblaze is taking aim at more established cloud vendors with a new cloud-based storage offering. While Backblaze can’t ever hope to compete with the breadth of cloud services offered by firms like Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft, the company has decided it does have the capability to dramatically ...

Microsoft backtracks: Clicking “X” will now stop Windows 10 updates

Microsoft has done an about turn on its Windows 10 upgrades policy, saying it will refrain from using a controversial trick that’s believed to have deceived dozens of users into downloading the controversial new OS by mistake. The issue relates to how Microsoft interprets user’s behavior when they click on the red “X” in the ...

Red Hat’s JBoss jumps on the cloud native, container-friendly bandwagon

Red Hat Inc. has issued a major update to its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, focusing on better support for cloud-native applications and containers. Red Hat acquired JBoss just over a decade ago, and since that time the world of technology has evolved beyond all recognition. In light of that, JBoss EAP 7 has been optimized ...

Microsoft unveils .NET Core 1.0, extends partnership with Red Hat

Microsoft has made good on a pledge it made back in November 2014 to open-source the core parts of its .NET framework and its cousin, the web-focused ASP.NET Core. The two products have now hit general availability with the release of versions 1.0 on Linux, Windows and MacOS. According to Microsoft, which made the announcement ...

No chance of Skynet: Forrester pours cold water on AI fears

Forrester Research Inc. has weighed into the debate on artificial intelligence (AI) technology and its potential to one day steal everyone’s jobs, definitively stating that it won’t happen, and that it’s highly unlikely robots will take over the world either. The analyst firm’s reassuring words come after dire warnings from prominent individuals such as Professor ...

Pepperdata offers a free health check for Hadoop users

Enterprises are falling over themselves to gain a competitive advantage using sophisticated tools like Hadoop, But as powerful as this technology is, Hadoop-based projects can quickly become a nightmare when performance problems work their way into complex Big Data operations. Unidentifiable bottlenecks, underused cluster capacity, problem users and jobs are just some of the difficulties ...

Google tools up with its Spanner database, looks for a fight with AWS

Google is said to be mulling the idea of commercializing a highly scalable, globally distributed database technology known as “Spanner”, which the company has been using in its own data centers for several years to deliver many of its core services. The challenge for Google’s Cloud Platform Group now is to work out how to ...

Intel looking to offload its Intel Security arm

Intel is considering a sale of its Intel Security division, and has already spoken with several bankers in a bid to find a suitable buyer, the Financial Times reports. Intel Security was created after Intel acquired the antivirus software maker McAfee Inc., the company founded by SiliconANGLE contributor John McAfee, in 2010. But with Intel ...

After the hype: Where containers make sense for IT organizations

Container software and its related technologies are on fire, winning the hearts and minds of thousands of developers and catching the attention of hundreds of enterprises, as evidenced by the huge number of attendees at this week’s DockerCon 2016 event. The big tech companies are going all in. Google, IBM, Microsoft and many others were ...