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

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 ...

Public cloud giants get security nod from FedRAMP

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and the lesser known CSRA Inc. have landed a key authorization from the U.S. government that gives federal agencies permission to use their cloud-computing services to store highly sensitive data. The three companies’ clouds (AWS GovCloud, Azure GovCloud and CSRA’s ARC-P IaaS) have all been granted provisional authority that allows ...

Data Center survey shows enterprises waste little time in shifting to the cloud

The cloud is absolutely not a fad. Instead, enterprises are falling over themselves to have public cloud providers reduce the burden of managing their IT, according to the results of a new study by the Uptime Institute this week. Just over 50 percent of IT professionals and data center operators quizzed in the newly published ...

Microsoft cozies up to Docker with enhanced container support

Microsoft made a number of container-related announcements at DockerCon yesterday, saying its expanding support for the technology by integrating it more deeply with a number of its DevOps and enterprise tools. Docker’s ecosystem and containers in general are something that Microsoft has been trying to break into for a while now. The company is planning ...

Docker opens the doors to its new enterprise-focused app store

Perhaps being influenced by the cliché that you’re just not cool if you don’t have your own app store, Docker Inc. yesterday launched the Docker Store in private beta, a new marketplace to showcase only the most trusted and validated Docker software. Docker says the concept is to deliver a self-service portal for ecosystem partners ...