Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

AWS signs up new, expanded customers ahead of re:Invent cloud conference

By Mike Wheatley Nov 26, 2018

Just hours ahead of its annual re:Invent customer conference, Amazon Web Services Inc. said it has signed up important new and expanded customers who will be using its public cloud computing infrastructure to run…

Emerging Tech

Israeli startup grabs $5.5M in seed funding to build a full ‘quantum stack’

By Mike Wheatley Nov 21, 2018

Israeli startup Quantum Machines Co. has joined the race to build the infrastructure necessary to support quantum computing. The company, which is based in Tel Aviv, said today it has raised $5.5 million in a…

Infra

‘Hyperscale’ data center firms take infrastructure spending to new levels

By Mike Wheatley Nov 21, 2018

Hyperscale data center operators spent a combined $26 billion on new infrastructure in the last quarter, up more than 53 percent from the third quarter of 2017. The data comes from Synergy Research Group’s…

Apps

As iPhone sales falter, Apple supplier Foxconn to reduce operations costs by $3B

By Mike Wheatley Nov 21, 2018

Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., better known as Foxconn, apparently is planning to cut operational costs by about 20 billion yuan ($2.9 billion) following what it said was a “very difficult and…

Security

Cloud security startup Alcide lands $7M in Series A funding round

By Mike Wheatley Nov 20, 2018

Cybersecurity startup Alcide, a subsidiary of Alcid.IO Ltd., says it’s ready to play with the big boys now. Today, it announced it has landed $7 million in a Series A round of financing that…

AI

Amazon has built an AI system that can train robots to speak like a newsreader

By Mike Wheatley Nov 19, 2018

Amazon.com Inc. has come up with a new artificial intelligence system that can train digital voice assistants such as Alexa to learn new speaking styles, similar to a newsreader for example, in a matter…

AI

With Contextor acquisition, SAP jumps into hot robotic process automation market

By Mike Wheatley Nov 19, 2018

SAP SE today became the latest enterprise company to jump into the white-hot robotic process automation market, acquiring a significant player called Contextor SAS for an undisclosed price. SAP said it was buying Contextor…

Cloud

No surprise here, but Amazon continues to dominate the public cloud market

By Mike Wheatley Nov 19, 2018

Amazon Web Services Inc. has retained its position as top dog in the public cloud infrastructure services market by some distance from its closest rivals, according to new data today from Synergy Research Group.…

Big Data

Amid strong earnings, Pure Storage unveils its hybrid cloud play with AWS

By Mike Wheatley Nov 19, 2018

Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. built on a strong third-quarter showing with the announcement of new block storage, data protection and deduplication services for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. The company recorded a…

Infra

Cato Networks improves its ability to detect and resolve network outages

By Mike Wheatley Nov 19, 2018

Networking specialist Cato Networks Ltd. says it’s getting better at monitoring performance fluctuations and resolving issues such as brownouts and blackouts more effectively. The company, which sells a software-defined wide-area network service, today introduced…

Mike Wheatley

Israeli startup grabs $5.5M in seed funding to build a full ‘quantum stack’

As iPhone sales falter, Apple supplier Foxconn to reduce operations costs by $3B

Amazon has built an AI system that can train robots to speak like a newsreader

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