Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Snowflake Computing matches Amazon Web Services price cuts

By Mike Wheatley Nov 24, 2016

Big Data-focused cloud startup Snowflake Computing Inc. is continuing its strategy of matching the prices of Amazon Web Services. The company, which sells a cloud data warehouse that uses AWS services as the foundation…

Microsoft bids to make quantum computing a reality with new hires

By Mike Wheatley Nov 24, 2016

Microsoft Corp. is ramping up its quantum computing ambitions by hiring a number of experts in the field. The new appointments include that of longtime Microsoft executive Todd Homdahl (above), who will be charged…

Cloud

Report: Amazon Web Services to launch cloud database service next week

By Mike Wheatley Nov 24, 2016

Reports are suggesting that Amazon Web Services will announce a PostgreSQL-compatible managed cloud service at its re:Invent conference next week. Fortune reports that the new PostgreSQL-compatible database engine will be similar to AWS’s Aurora…

Big Data

MapR intros new analytics and data scientist service for marketers

By Mike Wheatley Nov 24, 2016

Companies can now seek the services of a data scientist to solve their marketing and sales analysis problems thanks to a new solution launched by converged data platform provider MapR Technologies Inc. The company…

Forrester names IBM as a leader in IoT platforms

By Mike Wheatley Nov 22, 2016

IBM has put a huge emphasis on its Watson Internet of Things engine as it bids to become a bigger player in the public cloud market. Watson has been an ongoing project ever since…

Google’s DeepMind learns to lip-read better than humans

By Mike Wheatley Nov 22, 2016

Google may have found a way to use machine learning technology to help millions of deaf and hearing-impaired people better understand what people are saying to them. Researchers from Google Inc.’s DeepMind artificial intelligence…

Cloud

HPE launches managed services for Microsoft Azure cloud

By Mike Wheatley Nov 22, 2016

After throwing in the towel on its own plans to build out public cloud services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has announced a portfolio of managed services for Microsoft Azure, aimed at helping chief information…

Cloud

Google acquires cloud learning platform Qwiklabs

By Mike Wheatley Nov 22, 2016

Google Inc. is furthering its cloud computing ambitions with the acquisition of Qwiklabs, which offers hands-on lab learning environments for training on major cloud and infrastructure software platforms. The price of the acquisition was…

Cloud

Alibaba Cloud extends global push with Middle Eastern, European data centers

By Mike Wheatley Nov 21, 2016

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s cloud computing arm Alibaba Cloud has underlined its ambitions with the announcement that it’s planning to open no less than four new data centers by the end of the year,…

Gifts that keep on taking: Intel Security reveals most hackable devices of 2016

By Mike Wheatley Nov 21, 2016

When it comes to Christmas gadget shopping, most of us are on the lookout for the coolest or weirdest-looking devices around, but few consider how “hackable” a gift might be. In the second edition…

Mike Wheatley

Microsoft bids to make quantum computing a reality with new hires

Report: Amazon Web Services to launch cloud database service next week

MapR intros new analytics and data scientist service for marketers

Forrester names IBM as a leader in IoT platforms

Google’s DeepMind learns to lip-read better than humans

HPE launches managed services for Microsoft Azure cloud

Google acquires cloud learning platform Qwiklabs

Alibaba Cloud extends global push with Middle Eastern, European data centers

Gifts that keep on taking: Intel Security reveals most hackable devices of 2016

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