Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
Enterprises ramped up spending on networking gear in 2016 in order to build out their data centers, public and private cloud infrastructure, International Data Corp. said in its latest Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker. IDC’s report found that revenue from infrastructure …
Connected car chip maker Valens lands $60m Series D funding round
Valens Semiconductor Ltd., an Israeli semiconductor startup focusing on connected cars, has just landed $60 million in a late-stage funding round. The Series D financing was led by Israel Growth Partners, with participation from Delphi, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Goldman Sachs and MediaTek, …
Google to add open-source search engine Elasticsearch to its Cloud Platform
Google Inc. said last week that it’s teaming up with the startup Elastic to offer fully managed versions of that company’s Elasticsearch and Kibana open-source search software on its cloud platform. Elasticsearch is a search engine for structured and unstructured data, while …
Enterprises can now sign up to Microsoft’s Windows Insider program
Microsoft Corp. has finally opened up its Windows Insider program for information technology departments that want to test new features in its software ahead of time. The company said the Windows Insider Program for Business enables companies to try out upcoming releases …
Microsoft updates Azure Stack preview with Functions, App Service
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 offering that will come preloaded on hardware from …
Samsung expects strong profits thanks to chips, Galaxy S7 phone
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 trillion won ($8.8 billion) and sales of $50 …
Tableau Software finally rolls out subscription prices for all of its products
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 said subscription pricing will significantly reduce the startup …
Google ships out a host of updates for application containers
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 came the same day as the company announced …
As market realities bite, Ubuntu ditches Unity desktop environment for GNOME
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
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 …