Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Microsoft updates Azure Stack preview with Functions, App Service

By Mike Wheatley Apr 7, 2017

Microsoft Corp. has updated its third and final Azure Stack technical preview with some of the Azure cloud’s more advanced features and also some of its platform-as-a-service tools. Azure Stack is Microsoft’s hybrid cloud…

Infra

Samsung expects strong profits thanks to chips, Galaxy S7 phone

By Mike Wheatley Apr 7, 2017

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has managed to overcome both a political scandal and an exploding phone. The Korean electronics giant issued preliminary guidance for its first-quarter 2017 Thursday, forecasting an operating profit of 9.9…

Cloud

Tableau Software finally rolls out subscription prices for all of its products

By Mike Wheatley Apr 6, 2017

Tableau Software Inc. is catching up with the times, rolling out subscription pricing for its entire suite of business intelligence products as it prepares to ditch its old software license business model. The company…

Cloud

Google ships out a host of updates for application containers

By Mike Wheatley Apr 5, 2017

Google Inc. is making it easier for enterprises to get application container workloads up and running on its cloud platform with new automated management of nodes, or servers on a network. The new features…

Cloud

As market realities bite, Ubuntu ditches Unity desktop environment for GNOME

By Mike Wheatley Apr 5, 2017

Canonical Ltd. has finally admitted defeat in its long-running quest to deliver a converged Ubuntu Linux experience that runs on both desktops and smartphones. For more than six years, Canonical, which develops the popular…

Infra

FCC chairman says broadband competition doesn’t justify strict privacy rules – and critics howl

By Mike Wheatley Apr 5, 2017

Strict privacy rules for Internet service providers are not needed because the broadband market is more competitive than the search engine marketplace, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and acting Federal Trade Commission Chairman…

Infra

Seagate bids to slash flash storage costs with new RealStor arrays

By Mike Wheatley Apr 5, 2017

Seagate Technology LLC is claiming big performance gains alongside a reduction in cost with the release Monday of a new lineup of all-flash and hybrid storage arrays. In a blog post, Seagate cites market…

Emerging Tech

Shield AI raises $10.5m to build terrorist-hunting drones

By Mike Wheatley Apr 5, 2017

A startup that aims to save lives with its artificial intelligence-powered drones has just raised $10.5 million in a Series A funding round led by venture capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz. San Diego-based Shield AI…

Cloud

Expanding in Europe, Amazon Web Services sets new cloud region in Sweden next year

By Mike Wheatley Apr 5, 2017

Amazon Web Services is to expand further into Europe with a new data center facility that’s set to open in Sweden sometime next year. AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr said in a blog post…

Cloud

Espresso: Google serves up software to give its public cloud a speed boost

By Mike Wheatley Apr 5, 2017

Google Inc. on Tuesday unveiled Espresso, the latest piece of its never-ending quest to speed up its services all the way to the edge of its massive global network. Google has been steadily building…

Mike Wheatley

Samsung expects strong profits thanks to chips, Galaxy S7 phone

Tableau Software finally rolls out subscription prices for all of its products

Google ships out a host of updates for application containers

As market realities bite, Ubuntu ditches Unity desktop environment for GNOME

FCC chairman says broadband competition doesn’t justify strict privacy rules – and critics howl

Seagate bids to slash flash storage costs with new RealStor arrays

Shield AI raises $10.5m to build terrorist-hunting drones

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