Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
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 the pie for itself if it wants to. …
OpenOffice on life support, could be retired due to lack of developers
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 by Dennis Hamilton, vice president of Apache OpenOffice, …
Microsoft launches Windows as a Service subscription plan
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 be able to subscribe to the Windows 10 …
Enterprise workloads shifting quickly to the cloud
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 for emerging applications. 451 Research Inc. said in …
Report: HPE in talks to sell its software business to Thoma Bravo
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 agency cites unnamed sources as saying that Thoma …
SAP Hana recast as on-ramp to data warehousing in the cloud
SAP SE is rolling out a major update to its Hana in-memory data warehouse that moves processing closer to data and gives customers an on-ramp to the cloud. The new offering – which will be available next week – can run both …
Facebook launches Open Compute Project test lab to validate “big software”
The Facebook-led Open Compute Project (OCP) has stepped up its embrace of popular software platforms, including the latest release of OpenStack, container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, plus several other Big Data and block storage approaches that run on everything from containers to …
Box’s Q2 earnings edge past market expectations
File sharing firm Box Inc. posted encouraging second-quarter results for its fiscal 2017, narrowly beating analysts’ estimates. The company reported an adjusted loss of 14 cents a share, which came in below Wall Street analysts’ expected loss of 19 cents a share. …
PayPal eyes a move to the cloud, and Google is said to be its top choice
PayPal Holdings Inc. is looking to outsource some of its IT to the cloud, and Google is at the top of its list of potential providers, according to a report from CNBC that cites sources familiar with the matter. The report states …
HPE revamps Vertica & Haven OnDemand with advanced machine learning capabilities
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) has updated its Vertica analytics suite while introducing new machine learning capabilities to Haven OnDemand. Vertica is software that analyzes structured data, for example information that’s stored in rows and fields. But with the new update, Vertica …