Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Emerging Tech

John Chambers’ new venture firm bets on insects as ‘the lobsters of the future’

By Mike Wheatley Jan 18, 2018

John Chambers, the former chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., plans to spend his golden years scouting out promising startups after creating a new venture capital firm. The new firm, JC2 Ventures, has…

Emerging Tech

Microsoft builds an AI-based bot that draws beautiful images from text

By Mike Wheatley Jan 18, 2018

Pictionary is a pretty simple game for humans, who are challenged to draw a picture based on the cue card they receive. Now, thanks to Microsoft Corp., the game is no longer that difficult…

Big Data

Indico raises $4M for its ‘transfer learning’ AI technology, which requires less data

By Mike Wheatley Jan 18, 2018

Machine learning startup Indico Data Solutions Inc. has just been handed $4 million for its effort to upend the nascent world of artificial intelligence. The seed funding round was led by Osage Venture Partners, with…

Cloud

Baffle lands $6M funding to build out its ‘encryption as a service’

By Mike Wheatley Jan 17, 2018

Data protection startup Baffle Inc. said today it has raised $6 million in an early-stage funding round to expand its services for securing cloud-based software applications. Envision Ventures led the Series A round, which also saw…

Apps

Google adds a new security center for G Suite software users

By Mike Wheatley Jan 17, 2018

Google LLC wants to help enterprises using its productivity tools to improve how they protect themselves from cybersecurity threats, and to that end it rolled out a new Security Center today for its G Suite product.…

Apps

DevOps platform CircleCI raises $31M in new funding

By Mike Wheatley Jan 17, 2018

Continuous delivery automation company Circle Internet Services Inc., known as CircleCI, today said it has landed $31 million in a late-stage funding. The Series C round is the company’s largest to date, bringing its total…

Cloud

AWS debuts Auto Scaling service to automate the control of application resources

By Mike Wheatley Jan 17, 2018

Amazon Web Services Inc. is making it easier for its customers to optimize applications running on its infrastructure with a new service launched Tuesday called AWS Auto Scaling. Amazon users will be aware that…

Cloud

Veeam acquires Amazon cloud backup and disaster recovery firm N2WS

By Mike Wheatley Jan 16, 2018

Veeam Software Inc., a company providing backup, disaster recovery and virtualization management services, said today it has acquired N2W Software Inc., which provides a similar set of services specifically for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s…

Emerging Tech

Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018

By Mike Wheatley Jan 16, 2018

Led by investments in artificial intelligence, blockchain and the “internet of things,” businesses will spend nearly $3.7 trillion on information technology hardware, software and services in 2018, up 4.5 percent from the year before,…

Cloud

Amazon bags Comcast as its latest marquee customer

By Mike Wheatley Jan 16, 2018

Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services Inc. has bagged itself yet another marquee customer: Comcast Cable, the flagship business subsidiary of cable television provider Comcast Corp. Comcast isn’t exactly a new customer for Amazon,…

Mike Wheatley

John Chambers’ new venture firm bets on insects as ‘the lobsters of the future’

Microsoft builds an AI-based bot that draws beautiful images from text

Indico raises $4M for its ‘transfer learning’ AI technology, which requires less data

Baffle lands $6M funding to build out its ‘encryption as a service’

Google adds a new security center for G Suite software users

DevOps platform CircleCI raises $31M in new funding

AWS debuts Auto Scaling service to automate the control of application resources

Veeam acquires Amazon cloud backup and disaster recovery firm N2WS

Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018

Amazon bags Comcast as its latest marquee customer

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