Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Impending IBM acquisition overshadows Red Hat’s earnings

By Mike Wheatley Dec 17, 2018

Open-source software company Red Hat Inc.’s stock remained flat today after posting its first earnings call since IBM Corp. announced it intends to buy the firm for $34 billion. Once that deal is completed,…

Cloud

Oracle stock rises on solid earnings beat, but long-term concerns remain

By Mike Wheatley Dec 17, 2018

Oracle Corp. gave its investors a bit of temporary relief today with a fairly solid fiscal second-quarter performance that came in just above expectations. The database giant reported earnings before certain costs such as…

AI

Facebook open-sources PyText framework for building natural-language systems

By Mike Wheatley Dec 14, 2018

Facebook Inc. wants to help make it easier for developers to build and deploy artificial intelligence-based natural language processing systems. To do so, today it’s open sourcing a new NLP modeling framework called PyText…

AI

IBM rolls out new platform to address bias in AI decision making

By Mike Wheatley Dec 14, 2018

IBM Corp. is trying to mitigate the problem of bias in artificial intelligence-based decision-making with a new platform released early today that can inform people how AI models come to their conclusions. The company…

IoT

GE to spin off digital business as a standalone industrial IoT company

By Mike Wheatley Dec 13, 2018

General Electric Co. ended months of speculation about the fate of its digital business unit today, saying it plans to spin it off as a standalone industrial “internet of things” company. GE has also…

Big Data

Microsoft creates an A/B testing tool called Clarity

By Mike Wheatley Dec 12, 2018

Microsoft Corp. today debuted a new web analytics tool called Clarity that’s designed to help developers understand user behavior at large scale. The tool can help developers to work out why website users struggle or…

Infra

Smiles all round for server makers as quarterly revenue tops $23B

By Mike Wheatley Dec 12, 2018

The world’s biggest computer server makers were basking in the sunshine during the third quarter, making the most of a nearly 38 percent jump in market revenue that topped $23.36 billion. According to International…

Cloud

Oracle takes Pentagon to court over its $10B JEDI cloud computing contract

By Mike Wheatley Dec 12, 2018

Oracle Corp. is refusing to give up its fight for a piece of the U.S. Defense Department’s massive $10 billion cloud computing contract. Oracle, along with other public cloud providers, has been squabbling over…

Big Data

Big data company AtScale grabs $50M in late-stage funding round

By Mike Wheatley Dec 12, 2018

Business intelligence abstraction platform provider AtScale Inc. today said it has closed a $50 million late-stage round of funding. The Series D round was led by Morgan Stanley, with participation from new investors as well…

Big Data

Instaclustr expands Apache Cassandra with new open-source software

By Mike Wheatley Dec 12, 2018

Instaclustr Pty Ltd., which sells hosted and managed versions of popular open-source software Apache Cassandra, Spark and Kafka, is giving back to the community with three projects of its own. The company says it’s…

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