Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Big Data

Qubole teams up with Snowflake Computing to enable faster training of AI models

By Mike Wheatley Feb 13, 2018

Having tackled the challenge of making the big-data management software Hadoop easier to user and providing more organizations with access to comprehensive data analytics, Qubole Inc. now wants to do the same with the…

Infra

Deepfence pitches ‘security as a microservice’ to shore up container defenses

By Mike Wheatley Feb 13, 2018

Application security startup Deepfence Inc. is pitching a novel way to protect software containers with the launch today of a new “Security-as-a-Microservice” product. Software containers are an emerging technology increasingly popular with developers and…

Apps

Google brings its Accelerated Mobile Pages feature to email

By Mike Wheatley Feb 13, 2018

Google LLC is expanding the capabilities of its open-source Accelerated Mobile Pages framework that’s designed to make mobile web pages more interactive and faster to load. The AMP framework was initially targeted at publishers…

Infra

Pivotal Software and VMware launch new container service

By Mike Wheatley Feb 12, 2018

Pivotal Software Inc. and its Dell Technologies Inc. sibling VMware Inc. today announced the general availability of their Kubernetes-based Pivotal Container Service following an initial beta release last year. PKS, as the service is called, is…

Infra

Sylabs launches Singularity Pro, a container platform for HPC environments

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2018

Startup Sylabs Inc. today announced the commercial release of its open-source Singularity container engine software for high-performance computing. Called Singularity Pro, the platform has been optimized specifically for running software containers on HPC infrastructure, or…

Cloud

Amazon adds encryption at rest to DynamoDB database service

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2018

Amazon Web Services Inc. today added a new encryption feature to its DynamoDB database service in order to help better secure users’ data. DynamoDB is Amazon’s NoSQL database service, which is designed for storing and…

Infra

LinkedIn open-sources Dynamometer, a new tool for testing big-data performance

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2018

Microsoft Corp.-owned professional networking site LinkedIn is open-sourcing another new project. Dynamometer is a new tool is focused around stress-testing large Hadoop big-data deployments without using massive amounts of infrastructure. In a blog post today, LinkedIn senior software…

Big Data

Periscope Data adds support for Python and R programming languages

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2018

Data analytics software provider Periscope Data Inc. is updating its Unified Data Platform with support for the Python and R programming languages, as well as the Structured Query Language that’s used for managing relational…

Infra

Flash memory chip prices to stabilize in 2018 thanks to more production

By Mike Wheatley Feb 7, 2018

Technology firms’ spending on semiconductors rose by 17 percent in 2017 thanks to rising demand for memory chips for data centers and “internet of things” devices, but to the likely relief of buyers, the…

Emerging Tech

Workday creates $250M venture fund for emerging tech such as AI and blockchain

By Mike Wheatley Feb 7, 2018

Cloud business software provider Workday Inc. has become the latest technology firm to create its own investment arm. The company today announced the launch of a $250 million venture fund that will focus on new technologies…

Mike Wheatley

Qubole teams up with Snowflake Computing to enable faster training of AI models

Deepfence pitches ‘security as a microservice’ to shore up container defenses

Google brings its Accelerated Mobile Pages feature to email

Pivotal Software and VMware launch new container service

Sylabs launches Singularity Pro, a container platform for HPC environments

Amazon adds encryption at rest to DynamoDB database service

LinkedIn open-sources Dynamometer, a new tool for testing big-data performance

Periscope Data adds support for Python and R programming languages

Flash memory chip prices to stabilize in 2018 thanks to more production

Workday creates $250M venture fund for emerging tech such as AI and blockchain

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