Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Rackspace to lay off 6 percent of its workforce

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2017

Cloud services and support specialist Rackspace Inc. has revealed plans to lay off 6 percent of its staff, including about 250 of its U.S.-based workforce. Rackspace Chief Executive Taylor Rhodes broke the news in…

Apps

Microsoft enhances voice recognition with Custom Speech Service tool

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2017

Developers have a new machine learning tool for improving speech recognition to play around with courtesy of Microsoft Corp., which launched the public beta for its Custom Speech Service on Tuesday. Custom Speech Service…

Cloud

Report: AWS still owns a third of the cloud infrastructure market

By Mike Wheatley Feb 7, 2017

Amazon Web Services continues to enjoy a commanding lead over its rivals in the cloud infrastructure market, pulling in just over a third of worldwide revenues in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to…

Big Data

Taking on Apache Spark, Hazelcast launches faster data processing engine

By Mike Wheatley Feb 7, 2017

A little-known startup called Hazelcast Inc. is hoping to steal some of the limelight from popular open-source projects Apache Spark and Apache Flink, launching what it claims is a faster and lower-latency distributed processing engine…

Cloud

ZeroStack uses AI to create autonomous, ‘self-driving’ clouds

By Mike Wheatley Feb 6, 2017

Cloud computing startup ZeroStack Inc. is hoping to make the process of managing and automating hybrid clouds easier with the addition of new artificial intelligence-powered “self-driving” capabilities to its information technology management software. ZeroStack…

Apps

Mozilla kills off Firefox OS to double down on emerging tech

By Mike Wheatley Feb 5, 2017

The Mozilla Foundation said it’s shutting down the remains of its connected things division, which is responsible for the failed Firefox OS and other projects. “We have shifted our internal approach to the IoT…

Infra

Survey finds 90 percent of organizations struggle to optimize data centers

By Mike Wheatley Feb 2, 2017

An overwhelming majority of data center operators believe their information technology infrastructure is unsuitable for their organization’s digital business strategy, according to a new vendor-sponsored survey on IT optimization. The survey, conducted by IDG…

Infra

VMware extends software-defined networking push with new NSX tools

By Mike Wheatley Feb 2, 2017

VMware Inc. is continuing to hedge its bets on the rise of software-defined networking with the release of two new versions of its NSX virtual networking software. The company on Thursday announced the release…

Big Data

Tableau shares spike 14 percent after it blows past earnings target

By Mike Wheatley Feb 2, 2017

Tableau Software Inc. saw its share price shoot up 14 percent in after-hours trading following a fourth-quarter earnings report that beat Wall Street’s expectations. The data visualization software maker posted earnings before certain costs such…

Cloud

AT&T donates its software-defined networking code to the open-source community

By Mike Wheatley Feb 2, 2017

The Linux Foundation announced on Wednesday that it’s creating a new open networking automation project for virtual network functions using code donated by telecommunications provider AT&T Inc. Virtual network functions refers to virtualized tasks done…

Mike Wheatley

Microsoft enhances voice recognition with Custom Speech Service tool

Taking on Apache Spark, Hazelcast launches faster data processing engine

Mozilla kills off Firefox OS to double down on emerging tech

Survey finds 90 percent of organizations struggle to optimize data centers

VMware extends software-defined networking push with new NSX tools

Tableau shares spike 14 percent after it blows past earnings target

AT&T donates its software-defined networking code to the open-source community

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