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

Alcide launches security platform to safeguard multicloud IT environments

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 protect modern data center environments, including software containers, …

Google’s search and AI chief John Giannandrea steps down

PEOPLE By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 search and AI divisions were merged in February …

Microsoft finally brings availability zones to the Azure cloud

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 move follows an announcement last year that the …

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

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 from the U.K.-based analyst firm IHS Markit Ltd., …

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

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 Environment, known simply as “SPIRE.” The other new …

Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types

APPS By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 to pull information from Microsoft’s extensive Knowledge Graph …

IBM announces Microclimate development platform for cloud-native apps

APPS By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 up application creation and deployment. Microclimate is an …

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

EMERGING TECH By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 programmable gate arrays, which are processors used in …

Software-defined networking project OpenContrail rebrands as ‘Tungsten Fabric’

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Juniper Networks Inc.’s open-source OpenContrail project to create a software-defined network is being rebranded. The project, housed by the Linux Foundation, has been renamed as “Tungsten Fabric” in an effort to encourage more outside developers to contribute. Tungsten Fabric is designed to …

Cisco and Microsoft fight for dominance in enterprise collaboration software

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

The worldwide market for enterprise collaboration software hit a new all-time high in the fourth quarter of 2017, growing by just under 10 percent for the year, according to new data from Synergy Research Group. Synergy’s latest report, released today, shows that revenue …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

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

Software-defined networking project OpenContrail rebrands as ‘Tungsten Fabric’

Cisco and Microsoft fight for dominance in enterprise collaboration software

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