Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Report: HTC mulls ‘strategic options,’ including a full sale

By Mike Wheatley Aug 24, 2017

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC Corp. is working with an adviser as it looks at “strategic options” to revive its flagging business, according to one report. Those options include the company selling off its virtual…

Cloud

VMware reports solid earnings ahead of VMworld conference next week

By Mike Wheatley Aug 24, 2017

VMware Inc. made good on a promise made last week that it would deliver better-than-expected profits in its fiscal second-quarter earnings report. The virtualization software company on Thursday reported a profit of $344 million…

Emerging Tech

Organizations are desperate for open-source technology skills

By Mike Wheatley Aug 23, 2017

Open-source technology skills are becoming highly sought after as organizations fight among themselves to attract the talent they need to take advantage of the burgeoning trend. That’s according to the Linux Foundation’s new 2017…

Cloud

Canonical offers new support packages for Kubernetes deployments

By Mike Wheatley Aug 23, 2017

Open-source software provider Canonical Ltd. introduced a couple of new consulting packages today to support enterprise Kubernetes deployments in public and private clouds and on so-called bare-metal servers dedicated to a single customer. The company also…

Infra

Cyberthreats will drive higher growth in security spending

By Mike Wheatley Aug 22, 2017

Spending on security products is forecast to grow by 7 percent this year, or a hefty $6.5 billion, as enterprises become increasingly wary of cybersecurity threats in the wake of several high-profile ransomware attacks…

Infra

Microsoft’s Brainwave accelerates deep learning with Intel programmable chips

By Mike Wheatley Aug 22, 2017

Microsoft Corp. is upping the stakes in the race to build artificial intelligence systems with the introduction of a new initiative called Project Brainwave. The company is embedding neural network technology into its programmable…

Cloud

Report: Google to integrate Titan security chips with its cloud services

By Mike Wheatley Aug 22, 2017

Google Inc. is set to announce additional details about its new hardware-focused security chip for its public cloud that it believes can help it differentiate its offering from rivals Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft…

Big Data

Big data firm Databricks raises massive $140M funding led by Andreessen Horowitz

By Mike Wheatley Aug 22, 2017

Big data specialist Databricks Inc. has just landed a massive late-stage funding round of $140 million to fund its expansion into artificial intelligence. The company, which was founded by the creators of the Apache…

Emerging Tech

Microsoft’s speech recognition systems achieve parity with humans

By Mike Wheatley Aug 21, 2017

Microsoft Corp.’s artificial intelligence research team said it has made a significant breakthrough with its natural-language speech recognition technology. The company announced on Monday that it has finally achieved a human-parity word error rate…

Infra

IT organizations are struggling to recruit skilled server staff

By Mike Wheatley Aug 21, 2017

Information technology firms are finding it difficult to hire staff for roles across traditional servers and converged infrastructure due to a decline in the number of applicants with the necessary skills, a new report…

Mike Wheatley

Report: HTC mulls ‘strategic options,’ including a full sale

VMware reports solid earnings ahead of VMworld conference next week

Organizations are desperate for open-source technology skills

Cyberthreats will drive higher growth in security spending

Big data firm Databricks raises massive $140M funding led by Andreessen Horowitz

Microsoft’s speech recognition systems achieve parity with humans

IT organizations are struggling to recruit skilled server staff

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