Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Google turbocharges cloud data centers with Intel’s newest Skylake Xeon chips

By Mike Wheatley Feb 26, 2017

Google Inc. has stolen a march on public cloud rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure by becoming the first provider to bring Intel Corp.’s next-generation Xeon Skylake chips to its data centers. The…

Apps

Email automation service Mailgun spins out from Rackspace, raises $50M in financing

By Mike Wheatley Feb 24, 2017

Rackspace Inc. is still ringing in changes following an acquisition that took the company private, spinning out its email automation platform Mailgun Technologies, Inc. as an independent firm. The new entity also announced a…

Infra

Storj Labs launches crowdsourced storage based on blockchain

By Mike Wheatley Feb 23, 2017

A startup called Storj Labs Inc. has launched an open-source, distributed cloud object storage platform built on blockchain technology that encrypts files across a peer-to-peer network. The company is essentially crowdsourcing storage, enabling individuals…

Cloud

CafeX slaps Amazon Web Services with lawsuit over naming of its Chime product

By Mike Wheatley Feb 23, 2017

Workplace collaboration vendor CafeX Communications Inc. has slapped Amazon Web Services with a lawsuit over the name of AWS’s recently announced Amazon Chime videoconferencing product. CafeX has offered its own video collaboration product, also…

Cloud

New OpenStack cloud platform ships with improvements for container workloads

By Mike Wheatley Feb 23, 2017

The OpenStack Foundation has taken the wraps of off the latest release of the OpenStack cloud platform, named Ocata. OpenStack Ocata is the 15th release of the open-source cloud infrastructure platform, and was completed…

Infra

HP delivers strong earnings as personal computer revenues climb

By Mike Wheatley Feb 22, 2017

Personal computer and printer maker HP Inc. has gotten off to a strong start in 2017, reporting better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter earnings. The company reported a profit of $600 million, or 36 cents per share, on…

Infra

Report: Public cloud spending to grow seven times faster than IT overall

By Mike Wheatley Feb 22, 2017

Public cloud spending continues to explode, with worldwide investments set to rise this year over 24 percent, to $122.5 billion, according to International Data Corp.’s latest Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending Guide. Bearing…

Infra

Diamanti launches combined application container networking and storage appliance

By Mike Wheatley Feb 22, 2017

Hyperconverged infrastructure startup Diamanti Inc. is bidding to solve the challenges of balancing networking and storage requirements for application containers with the launch today of a dedicated hardware appliance for running container workloads. The…

Cloud

Red Hat aims to improve application container integration services

By Mike Wheatley Feb 21, 2017

The rapid growth of cloud-based software-as-a-service systems, the Internet of Things and new data streams is forcing organizations to deliver innovative new services faster. As a result, application containers and architectures based on application programming…

Cloud

Google rents Nvidia graphics chips in its cloud for machine learning

By Mike Wheatley Feb 21, 2017

Google Inc. is touting the beta test of a new cloud service that lets customers rent Nvidia Corp. graphics chips running in its data centers to do machine learning and other computing-heavy workloads. The…

Mike Wheatley

Google turbocharges cloud data centers with Intel’s newest Skylake Xeon chips

Email automation service Mailgun spins out from Rackspace, raises $50M in financing

CafeX slaps Amazon Web Services with lawsuit over naming of its Chime product

HP delivers strong earnings as personal computer revenues climb

Diamanti launches combined application container networking and storage appliance

Red Hat aims to improve application container integration services

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