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Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile.

Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach.

Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Infra

Virtuozzo names former IBM exec George Karidis as new CEO

By Mike Wheatley Nov 9, 2016

Virtuozzo has announced a new chief executive: 48-year old former SoftLayer and IBM Corp. executive George Karidis, who assumes his first CEO role. Virtuozzo came into being as a standalone company after spinning out of Parallels International…

Microsoft extends support for Kubernetes, Mesosphere on Azure

By Mike Wheatley Nov 8, 2016

Microsoft Corp. has introduced extended native support for Kubernetes on its Azure cloud container service, along with upgrades support for the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System. The Redmond-based company announced the container initiatives at this…

Cloud Native Computing Foundation unveils Fluentd data collector

By Mike Wheatley Nov 8, 2016

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which is tasked with nurturing the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration platform project among others, has been busy. On Tuesday, the group announced a host of new members, a new…

Infra

Containers battle barriers in drive to revolutionize software

By Mike Wheatley Nov 8, 2016

One of today’s most disruptive information technology trends is software containers, a technology that’s poised to transform the enterprise IT landscape by revolutionizing the way software is built and run. But just how and…

CoreOS touts ‘Operators’ for simpler Kubernetes management

By Mike Wheatley Nov 3, 2016

CoreOS Inc. is looking to alleviate some of the complexity that comes with using Kubernetes, the open-source application container cluster manager, to manage modern distributed applications. The company has created new open-source software called…

Cyber-attackers probe public clouds for specific weaknesses

By Mike Wheatley Nov 3, 2016

Hackers are getting smarter, picking away at different public cloud’s architecture in an effort to find unique vulnerabilities in infrastructure hosted by companies like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The fruits of such…

Report: Next U.S. president will face a ‘major cyber-crisis’ in 2017

By Mike Wheatley Nov 2, 2016

Whichever presidential candidate moves into the White House in January can expect to face a “major cyber-crisis” within 100 days as enterprises across the country struggle to “defend against escalating, dynamic security and privacy…

Microsoft stops selling older Windows versions to computer makers

By Mike Wheatley Nov 2, 2016

Microsoft will no longer sell licenses for its Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 operating systems to personal computer manufacturers. Now that this is official, it means it won’t be long until companies like Dell…

Aporeto unveils whitelist security model for application containers

By Mike Wheatley Nov 1, 2016

A cloud-native security startup today introduced what it says is a dead simple security model for containers, which allow applications to run on any computer. Aporeto on Tuesday unveiled a new open-source project called Trireme that…

Cisco updates its Spark collaboration tools and services

By Mike Wheatley Nov 1, 2016

Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday unveiled a series of new collaboration tools based around its Spark communications platform, aimed at helping customers get better value from the cloud while making the most of their on-premises deployments. The tools…