Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Salesforce moves to block Microsoft’s ‘anticompetitive’ acquisition of LinkedIn

By Mike Wheatley Sep 29, 2016

Salesforce.com Inc. is attempting to derail Microsoft’s proposed $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. The maker of customer relationship management and other software is urging the European Union to oppose the deal, saying the…

Dell, HPE reveal systems for Microsoft’s forthcoming Azure Stack software

By Mike Wheatley Sep 29, 2016

Dell Technologies Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) yesterday unveiled a bunch of new integrated systems and services for Microsoft’s upcoming Azure Stack software, in moves aimed at boosting each company’ hybrid cloud efforts.…

Dell EMC sitting pretty atop growing converged systems market

By Mike Wheatley Sep 29, 2016

The global converged systems market saw revenues grow by 12.1 percent year-over-year to just over $2.9 billion in the second quarter of this year, according to International Data Corp. (IDC). IDC said in its…

New Apache project Spot taps machine learning to sniff out cyber threats

By Mike Wheatley Sep 28, 2016

The Apache Software Foundation is now incubating a project backed by Cloudera Inc. and Intel Corp. that aims to bolster cyber security with Big Data analytics and machine learning. Previously known as the Open…

More Hadoop vendors back controversial Open Data Platform initiative

By Mike Wheatley Sep 28, 2016

The controversial Open Data Platform initiative (ODPi) has shied away from the spotlight in recent months, but yesterday announced that a number of prominent enterprise vendors have jumped onto its bandwagon. The ODPi announced that…

Kubernetes 1.4 promises to make container orchestration easier, more powerful

By Mike Wheatley Sep 28, 2016

Google’s Kubernetes project is well on the way towards becoming the de facto standard for running containers at scale, and the release of Kubernetes 1.4 promises to cement its status as the top choice…

SAP confirms Altiscale acquisition, aims to fix Big Data challenges

By Mike Wheatley Sep 28, 2016

SAP SE last night finally confirmed that it has acquired the Big Data-focused startup Altiscale Inc. for an undisclosed fee. The confirmation comes following initial reports of the deal that first surfaced back in…

MapR ramps up DevOps appeal with event-driven microservices support

By Mike Wheatley Sep 27, 2016

In an effort to boost its appeal to among developers, MapR Technologies Inc. is adding support for event-driven microservices to its flagship MapR Converged Data Platform. The move brings new capabilities ranging from microservices…

IBM meshes AI with analytics in new Project DataWorks platform

By Mike Wheatley Sep 27, 2016

The latest vendor to try to make Big Data insights easier to access, IBM has launched a new platform that integrates all kinds of data with its prized Watson artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Called…

Microsoft & Adobe join forces to combat Salesforce

By Mike Wheatley Sep 27, 2016

Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference that it’s entering into a partnership with Adobe Inc. that will see the two companies promote each other’s cloud products. Adobe said that Microsoft Azure is now its…

Mike Wheatley

Salesforce moves to block Microsoft’s ‘anticompetitive’ acquisition of LinkedIn

Dell, HPE reveal systems for Microsoft’s forthcoming Azure Stack software

Dell EMC sitting pretty atop growing converged systems market

New Apache project Spot taps machine learning to sniff out cyber threats

More Hadoop vendors back controversial Open Data Platform initiative

Kubernetes 1.4 promises to make container orchestration easier, more powerful

SAP confirms Altiscale acquisition, aims to fix Big Data challenges

MapR ramps up DevOps appeal with event-driven microservices support

IBM meshes AI with analytics in new Project DataWorks platform

Microsoft & Adobe join forces to combat Salesforce

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