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

Windows 10 users may have to pay for updates after 2-4 years

Microsoft might be happy to give free copies of Windows 10 away to anyone who asks, but it’s unlikely the operating system will be free to use forever. And although the company hasn’t admitted it’s planning to introduce some kind of subscription model for Windows, it’s looking more likely than ever that it will do ...

This startup wants to sell you a real-life, physical Docker container

The Docker container software doesn’t actually exist in physical form, even though media hacks are all too quick to liken it to shipping containers as a way of illustrating how apps can be packaged and shipped anywhere. But soon we could all have a physical, miniaturized container server sitting on desks, if a new Kickstarter ...

Microsoft not giving up on Windows Phone, pushes new Build

Although Microsoft has effectively written off its enormously expensive acquisition of Nokia Corp.’s handset business, but it’s by no means done as far as mobile is concerned. Evidence of that comes by way of Microsoft’s release of a new build of Windows 10 Mobile, its new smartphone OS that sports the same build number as ...

Vendors won’t let up in cloud price wars yet, analysts say

Microsoft raised a few eyebrows earlier this week when it said it was planning to buck the usual trend and actually increase the cost of its cloud services in Australia and Europe, as opposed to slashing prices once again. Microsoft blamed “currency movements” for the move, and as if to emphasize this, has since said ...

Dell and SGI partner to scale out SAP HANA

Silicon Graphics International Corp. (SGI) has forged a new alliance with Dell Inc. that could have big ramifications for the server market. The deal will see Dell resell SGI’s high-end servers to customers adopting SAP HANA in-memory computing applications. Essentially, that means Dell is really going to sell is HANA appliances, which should make it ...

Accenture launches cloud-based insights platform

Accenture Plc yesterday unveiled its new Accenture Insights Platform, a cloud-based analytics tool that aims to simplify the process of delivering real-time actionable insights to businesses and help them gain a competitive advantage. Accenture describes its Insights Platform as a flexible Analytics-as-a-Service solution that’s designed to appeal to CXOs, data scientists and business users alike. ...

Nokia builds drones to inspect telco network towers

Nokia Networks is teaming up with the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, which prefers to go by the much simpler name of Du, to design drones that can help the company test and analyze its networks. Du is one of the biggest telcos in the Middle East, and it recently carried out a proof-of-concept (PoC) test ...

IBM announces 7nm chips breakthrough to keep Moore’s Law alive

IBM Research announced a major breakthrough on Thursday, saying it’s built the world’s first fully-functional 7 nanometer node test chips, in conjunction with partners GlobalFoundries In., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and the SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. According to IBM, the prototype processors it’s built mark the beginning of a new ...

Gartner expects PC sales to slump again, blames Windows 10

The struggling PC industry won’t get much help from Windows 10 for at least another year, the research outfit Garnter Inc. said in a report yesterday. According to Gartner’s mystics, global PC shipments are set for a further 4.5 percent decline this year compared to last, to just 300 million units. That’s also a 1.3 ...

IDC: Cloud infrastructure to account for 1/3 of all IT spend in 2015

On-premise IT infrastructure still accounts for the bulk of enterprise IT spend, but cloud infrastructure is rapidly catching up, and now represents a third of all IT spending, according to a new report from International Data Corp. The research outfit’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Infrastructure Tracker found that total cloud IT infrastructure spend, which includes servers, ...