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

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

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 Ubuntu Linux operating system distribution, has been trying …

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

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 Maureen Ohlhausen argued in an opinion piece in …

Seagate bids to slash flash storage costs with new RealStor arrays

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 research on the critical price points of all-flash …

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

EMERGING TECH By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 said it makes drones that “find people and …

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

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 that the AWS EU Stockholm region will be …

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

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

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 out its networking infrastructure for more than 10 …

Rackspace launches new cloud migration service

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Rackspace Inc. is hoping to take the headaches out of migrating to the cloud with a new service aimed at companies that wish to move their information technology workloads to public or private clouds. The company today announced its new Global Solutions …

Internet service providers insist they’re not going to sell your web browsing history

INFRA By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Three of America’s biggest Internet service providers have sought to reassure consumers that they have no plans to sell their Internet browsing data, following last week’s Congressional vote that allows them to do just that without obtaining customer consent first. Last week, …

Oracle says no to buying Accenture: ‘We’ve never even considered it’

CLOUD By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

While many companies simply choose not to comment on acquisition rumors, Oracle Corp. has came out to deny a recent report that it’s looking at buying the global consultancy firm Accenture Plc. It would have been one of the technology industry’s biggest …

The Linux Foundation offers free introductory course to Apache Hadoop

BIG DATA By MIKE WHEATLEY9 YEARS AGO

Apache Hadoop’s position as the leading light in big data is coming under threat from competing technologies such as Apache Spark, but the Linux Foundation believes there’s plenty of life left in the old framework. Critics of Hadoop, open-source software used for …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

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

Rackspace launches new cloud migration service

Internet service providers insist they’re not going to sell your web browsing history

The Linux Foundation offers free introductory course to Apache Hadoop

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