Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Twitter board to discuss possible sale as troubles mount

By Mike Wheatley Sep 7, 2016

Twitter, Inc.’s economic struggles are one of the worst-kept secrets in tech, with the company posting several successive losing quarters in a row, and its user adoption stagnating. While Twitter has long help up…

Dell reports flat Q2 a day before it closes on EMC merger

By Mike Wheatley Sep 7, 2016

Just one day before Dell Technologies Inc. finally completes its takeover of EMC Corp., the company issued second-quarter results for its fiscal 2017. The company reported almost-flat revenues of $13.1 billion in the three…

Oracle acquires LogFire for its cloud-based warehouse management capabilities

By Mike Wheatley Sep 7, 2016

Oracle quietly announced yesterday that it’s acquiring LogFire Inc., an Atlanta, GA-based startup that provides cloud-based warehouse management applications aimed at boosting supply chain efficiency. LogFire, which counts more than 40 enterprise customers including…

VMware adds data-at-rest encryption to VSAN beta

By Mike Wheatley Sep 6, 2016

VMware Inc. is looking for beta testers of the latest version of its virtual storage area network (VSAN). In a blog post, VMware’s chief technologist for Storage & Availability Duncan Epping announced that the…

SoftBank seals the deal in $31.4bn ARM acquisition

By Mike Wheatley Sep 6, 2016

Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. raised a few eyebrows last July when it announced it was acquiring British chip designer ARM Holdings Plc for $31.4 billion, the biggest-ever acquisition of a European tech firm. Now,…

Microsoft unseats Salesforce at the top of the SaaS market

By Mike Wheatley Sep 5, 2016

Microsoft has earned itself a reputation for being somewhat late to the party when new technologies burst onto the scene, but thanks to to its monumental resources, it nearly always grabs a piece of…

OpenOffice on life support, could be retired due to lack of developers

By Mike Wheatley Sep 4, 2016

OpenOffice, the once-popular open-source alternative to Microsoft’s Office suite, is effectively on life support, and could be shut down altogether due to a lack of developers willing to update it. The revelation was made…

Microsoft launches Windows as a Service subscription plan

By Mike Wheatley Sep 2, 2016

Microsoft is making Windows 10 available on a monthly subscription for enterprise users with the launch of Windows as a Service via its Cloud Solution Provider network. What it means is that businesses will…

Enterprise workloads shifting quickly to the cloud

By Mike Wheatley Sep 2, 2016

Public and private clouds currently host an estimated 41 percent of all enterprise workloads, and that figure will rise to 60 percent within the next two years as more enterprises embrace hybrid cloud infrastructure…

Report: HPE in talks to sell its software business to Thoma Bravo

By Mike Wheatley Sep 2, 2016

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) is reportedly holding talks with private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo LLC over the sale of its software business, following rumors of a deal earlier this summer. The Reuters news…

Mike Wheatley

Twitter board to discuss possible sale as troubles mount

Dell reports flat Q2 a day before it closes on EMC merger

Oracle acquires LogFire for its cloud-based warehouse management capabilities

VMware adds data-at-rest encryption to VSAN beta

SoftBank seals the deal in $31.4bn ARM acquisition

Microsoft unseats Salesforce at the top of the SaaS market

OpenOffice on life support, could be retired due to lack of developers

Microsoft launches Windows as a Service subscription plan

Enterprise workloads shifting quickly to the cloud

Report: HPE in talks to sell its software business to Thoma Bravo

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