Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Infra

Google is building a new undersea cable linking Australia to Japan

By Mike Wheatley Apr 4, 2018

Google LLC is expanding its undersea cable infrastructure, making a significant investment in a new network that will link Australia with Japan via the U.S. island territory of Guam. In a blog post published…

Big Data

Big-data bomb: Cloudera’s stock crashes 40% on slower-growth outlook

By Mike Wheatley Apr 3, 2018

Big-data management company Cloudera Inc. saw its stock take a huge beating in after-hours trading, falling by more than 28 percent thanks to lower-than-expected guidance on revenue growth this year. Update: On Wednesday, investors…

Infra

Alcide launches security platform to safeguard multicloud IT environments

By Mike Wheatley Apr 3, 2018

Cybersecurity startup Alcide, a subsidiary of Alcid.IO Ltd., said today that its new network-based security platform designed to safeguard hybrid and multicloud environments is now generally available. Alcide’s cloud-native security platform is designed to…

People

Google’s search and AI chief John Giannandrea steps down

By Mike Wheatley Apr 2, 2018

Google LLC is shaking things up at the executive level amid reports that its search and artificial intelligence chief John Giannandrea is stepping down. Computer scientist Giannandrea (pictured) took over the unit when Google’s…

Cloud

Microsoft finally brings availability zones to the Azure cloud

By Mike Wheatley Apr 1, 2018

Microsoft Corp. last week switched on the first availability zones for its Azure cloud platform, providing new backup and reliability options for customers running workloads in its data centers in Iowa and Paris. The…

Infra

No flash in the pan: Memory chip revenues could see record growth in 2018

By Mike Wheatley Mar 30, 2018

The global semiconductor industry recorded its best year in more than a decade in 2017, with annual revenue jumping by 22 percent over the previous year, to $429.1 billion. That’s according to new data…

Cloud

CNCF adds 3 new open-source projects aimed at boosting container security

By Mike Wheatley Mar 29, 2018

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced it’s taking three new open-source projects under its protective wing. The new projects include the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone, or “SPIFFE,” and the SPIFFE Runtime…

Apps

Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types

By Mike Wheatley Mar 29, 2018

Microsoft Corp. is enhancing its Excel spreadsheet software with two new “rich data” types that provides a better way to access information on companies and places. The geography and stocks data types allow users…

Apps

IBM announces Microclimate development platform for cloud-native apps

By Mike Wheatley Mar 29, 2018

IBM Corp. is reaching out to software coders with a new application development environment called Microclimate that supports multiple cloud platforms. IBM reckons that Microclimate has everything a developer needs to simplify and speed…

Emerging Tech

Microsoft’s Bing search engine uses FPGA chips to provide more intelligent answers

By Mike Wheatley Mar 28, 2018

Microsoft Corp. has posted an update about how its Project Brainwave deep learning acceleration project is being used to power Bing’s search service. Project Brainwave is an extension of Microsoft’s development work on field…

Mike Wheatley

Google is building a new undersea cable linking Australia to Japan

Google’s search and AI chief John Giannandrea steps down

No flash in the pan: Memory chip revenues could see record growth in 2018

Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types

IBM announces Microclimate development platform for cloud-native apps

Microsoft’s Bing search engine uses FPGA chips to provide more intelligent answers

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