Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Emerging Tech

IBM unveils new quantum processors to power its commercial Q Systems

By Mike Wheatley Nov 10, 2017

In another sign of the ascendance of quantum computing, IBM Corp. says it’s beefing up the power of its online commercial quantum system, IBM Q, which will be made available to early-access customers later…

Infra

Microsoft open-sources effort to build hardware that protects firmware from hackers

By Mike Wheatley Nov 9, 2017

Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a blueprint for special hardware that will be able to secure server firmware from hackers, and it wants the open-source community to help it out. The software giant said the…

Emerging Tech

Uber teams up with NASA to make its flying taxi dream a reality

By Mike Wheatley Nov 8, 2017

Uber Technologies Inc.’s dream of providing a flying taxi service might not be all that farfetched. Today the company announced it’s teaming up with NASA to develop the technology and systems they need to…

Infra

Twilio shares rally as it surpasses $100M in quarterly revenue for the first time

By Mike Wheatley Nov 8, 2017

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. made investors happy Thursday after posting third-quarter earnings results that blew past Wall Street analysts’ forecasts. The company, which builds web service application programming interfaces for software developers to make and receive phone…

Infra

Container monitoring system Prometheus gets a major update

By Mike Wheatley Nov 8, 2017

The Prometheus project, an open-source monitoring solution for application containers, has just received a major update that brings greater stability and improved performance to the platform. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which houses the…

Apps

Leanplum raises $47M to help put the relationship back into marketing

By Mike Wheatley Nov 8, 2017

Mobile marketing platform provider Leanplum Inc. said today it has just wrapped up a $47 million late-stage round of financing that it will use to enhance its products and further its international expansion. The…

Cloud

IBM takes steps to help EU customers comply with GDPR rules

By Mike Wheatley Nov 8, 2017

IBM Corp. says it’s giving its Frankfurt-based cloud data center in Germany a facelift in order to provide customers with greater control over where their data lives, who has access to it and what…

Cloud

After data leaks, Amazon beefs up security and encryption for its S3 cloud storage

By Mike Wheatley Nov 7, 2017

In the wake of several incidents that saw Amazon Web Services Inc. customers leave important data unsecured on the internet, the cloud computing giant today announced no less than five new security features to…

Apps

Microsoft acquires Swing Technologies to add ‘living photos’ to Skype

By Mike Wheatley Nov 7, 2017

The Skype video chat service will soon support a new feature called “living photos” following the news Monday that its owner Microsoft Corp. has acquired technology and assets from a company called Swing Technologies.…

Cloud

Survey: Private cloud revenues could pass public cloud in the next year, thanks to OpenStack

By Mike Wheatley Nov 6, 2017

Private cloud adoption and revenues are being boosted by growth in the number of multi-cloud deployments, according to a new OpenStack survey carried out by 451 Research Inc. The survey, which was released to…

Mike Wheatley

IBM unveils new quantum processors to power its commercial Q Systems

Microsoft open-sources effort to build hardware that protects firmware from hackers

Uber teams up with NASA to make its flying taxi dream a reality

Container monitoring system Prometheus gets a major update

Leanplum raises $47M to help put the relationship back into marketing

After data leaks, Amazon beefs up security and encryption for its S3 cloud storage

Microsoft acquires Swing Technologies to add ‘living photos’ to Skype

Survey: Private cloud revenues could pass public cloud in the next year, thanks to OpenStack

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