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.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Microsoft announces lower pricing for some of its virtual machines

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has announced a round of price cuts for some of its “most popular virtual machines” as of Oct. 1. The company announced a 15 percent price reduction on its Dv2 series VMs, a 50 percent cut on its A1 and …

Microsoft upgrades Azure HDInsight, its Hadoop Big Data offering

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has beefed up its cloud-based Azure HDInsight Hadoop offering with new security enhancements and a performance boost that the company claims will speed up Big Data queries by a factor of 25. Azure HDInsight is kind of managed Hadoop service that …

Maxta rolls out limited free version of its hyperconverged storage software

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

Maxta Inc. is offering up a free but limited version of its hyperconverged, software-defined storage software. The company, which specializes in software-based hyperconvergence for enterprise storage systems, said a free download of its MxSP software is now available for “qualifying organizations” in …

Report: Qualcomm wants to buy NXP Semiconductors for $30B

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

Smartphone semiconductor powerhouse Qualcomm Technologies Inc. could acquire rival firm NXP Semiconductors N.V. in “the next two to three months,” according to a report from the Wall Street Journal that cites people familiar with the matter. The value of the deal is speculated …

IBM brings AI to banking with Promontory Financial Group acquisition

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

IBM announced on Thursday it’s planning to acquire the financial and compliance consulting firm Promontory Financial Group, in order to bolster the financial regulatory expertise of its Watson cognitive computing platform. Promontory’s main line of work involves helping banks muddle their way …

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

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

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 merger would be “anti-competitive” and give Microsoft an …

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

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

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. Azure Stack is a piece of software that …

Dell EMC sitting pretty atop growing converged systems market

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

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 latest Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker that Q2 …

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

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

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 Network Insights (ONI) initiative, the project is now …

More Hadoop vendors back controversial Open Data Platform initiative

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

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 DataTorrent, IBM, Pivotal Software Inc., SAS, Syncsort Inc., …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Microsoft announces lower pricing for some of its virtual machines

Microsoft upgrades Azure HDInsight, its Hadoop Big Data offering

Maxta rolls out limited free version of its hyperconverged storage software

Report: Qualcomm wants to buy NXP Semiconductors for $30B

IBM brings AI to banking with Promontory Financial Group acquisition

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

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