Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Infra

VMware enables integrated software containers in its flagship vSphere 6.5 platform

By Mike Wheatley Dec 11, 2016

VMware Inc. has finally introduced its long-awaited vSphere Integrated Containers feature in vSphere 6.5, its flagship server virtualization software. VMware first pitched the idea of integrated containers at VMWorld 2015, arguing that it’s inherently more…

Infra

Thales unveils container encryption tools to boost security, reduce downtime

By Mike Wheatley Dec 11, 2016

To date, most container security efforts have focused on the isolation of individual containers from one another and through other access control approaches. Now, one data security firm is proposing an entirely new approach. Thales…

Cloud

Report: 20 percent of government agencies don’t encrypt cloud data

By Mike Wheatley Dec 9, 2016

Almost 20 percent of government agencies using the public cloud do not encrypt their data, despite claiming that security is one of their biggest priorities, according to new survey by workload security firm HyTrust…

Apps

Google reduces size of Android app updates by 65 percent

By Mike Wheatley Dec 8, 2016

Google Inc. announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out a new method for application updates via its Play Store that slashes data usage. But there is a downside. The new method, called file-by-file patching,…

Apps

Microsoft extends support for Windows Server, SQL Server by 6 years

By Mike Wheatley Dec 8, 2016

Microsoft Corp. is extending support for Windows Server and SQL Server by an additional six years to a total of 16 years. The new licensing option, “Premium Assurance,” is available for Windows Server 2008…

Cloud

Red Hat brings OpenShift Dedicated to Google’s cloud

By Mike Wheatley Dec 8, 2016

Red Hat Inc. is stepping up its push to bring software containers and Kubernetes to the enterprise with the launch today of OpenShift Dedicated on the Google Cloud Platform. OpenShift Dedicated is Red Hat’s…

Big Data

Microsoft Research’s top female scientists predict the next 10 years in tech

By Mike Wheatley Dec 7, 2016

Computers that can see, vastly improved language translation and the disappearance of the traditional app search box: Those are among the list of predictions in tech for the next decade that Microsoft Corp.’s research department has…

Big Data

Microsoft updates R Server with machine learning capabilities

By Mike Wheatley Dec 7, 2016

Microsoft Corp. has just released a new version of its R Server analytics platform, the headline act in a number of announcements Wednesday that touch on databases, data analytics and cloud management. R Server 9.0 is…

Infra

Google says it will be running on 100% renewable energy by next year

By Mike Wheatley Dec 7, 2016

Google Inc. has said it’s on track to use all renewable energy for all of its operations, including its data centers and offices, by early next year. The milestone means Google will have achieved…

Big Data

Aiming to spur Internet of Things apps, Microsoft adds Kafka software support to its Azure cloud

By Mike Wheatley Dec 7, 2016

Microsoft Corp. has just made it a little easier to build Internet of Things applications that rely on the popular open-source Apache Kafka streaming data ingestion engine. The company has just released a tool…

Mike Wheatley

VMware enables integrated software containers in its flagship vSphere 6.5 platform

Thales unveils container encryption tools to boost security, reduce downtime

Report: 20 percent of government agencies don’t encrypt cloud data

Google reduces size of Android app updates by 65 percent

Microsoft extends support for Windows Server, SQL Server by 6 years

Red Hat brings OpenShift Dedicated to Google’s cloud

Microsoft Research’s top female scientists predict the next 10 years in tech

Microsoft updates R Server with machine learning capabilities

Google says it will be running on 100% renewable energy by next year

Aiming to spur Internet of Things apps, Microsoft adds Kafka software support to its Azure cloud

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