Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Google’s planning to use drones for video conferences

By Mike Wheatley Aug 15, 2016

Google is considering plans to use drones to deliver video conferencing. The unusual idea was revealed in a patent awarded to the tech giant last week, which outlines the idea of a drone carrying…

Microsoft backtracks on shorter Windows 7 support plan

By Mike Wheatley Aug 14, 2016

Microsoft has relented on what many suspected was a cunning plan to push newer PC owners onto Windows 10 by restricting support options for certain CPUs. Back in January, Microsoft announced that any PC…

Public cloud spending to more than double to $195BN by 2020

By Mike Wheatley Aug 12, 2016

International Data Corp. (IDC) reckons that global spending on public cloud services will hit $195 billion a year by 2020. The forecast came in its Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending guide on Wednesday,…

Microsoft justifies Azure Stack U-turn: It’s not feasible on systems we’ve never seen before

By Mike Wheatley Aug 12, 2016

Microsoft caused controversy last month when it said it would be revamping and also delaying the release of its eagerly anticipated Azure Stack hybrid cloud platform. At its Worldwide Partner Conference last month, Microsoft…

AWS aims to simplify real-time data analysis with Kinesis Analytics

By Mike Wheatley Aug 12, 2016

Amazon Web Services yesterday unveiled a range of new capabilities it’s adding to its cloud platform at its AWS Summit in New York City. The biggest announcement is AWS’s new analytics service for real-time…

CIA-funded Palantir acquires Dutch data visualization startup Silk

By Mike Wheatley Aug 11, 2016

Highly secretive data firm Palantir Technologies Inc., which was co-founded by Peter Thiel and part-financed by the CIA, has said it’s to acquire a Dutch data visualization and publishing startup called Silk, whose technology…

Mirantis expands OpenStack offerings with SUSE alliance

By Mike Wheatley Aug 10, 2016

OpenStack distributor Mirantis Inc. has forged a new alliance with SUSE as it bids to become the “one-stop-shop” for all enterprise Linux users of the open-source cloud computing platform. The partnership means Mirantis gets…

Google now offers self-destructing VMs at just $0.01 per hour

By Mike Wheatley Aug 10, 2016

Google has gone and cut its cloud prices again, reducing the cost of virtual machines (VMs) to as little as $0.01 an hour. However, that price only applies to what Google calls “Preemptible VMs”,…

Redmonk analyzes the cost of the cloud

By Mike Wheatley Aug 10, 2016

RedMonk analyst Rachel Stephens has just updated the firm’s analysis of the price differences among the top cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers for the first time in two years. The most striking thing about the…

Alibaba offers foreign tech firms a leg up in China

By Mike Wheatley Aug 10, 2016

Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd., has hit upon a great way of attracting some extra business, by offering foreign companies a helping hand to establish themselves in China, a country that has grown increasingly hostile…

Mike Wheatley

Google’s planning to use drones for video conferences

Microsoft backtracks on shorter Windows 7 support plan

Public cloud spending to more than double to $195BN by 2020

AWS aims to simplify real-time data analysis with Kinesis Analytics

CIA-funded Palantir acquires Dutch data visualization startup Silk

Mirantis expands OpenStack offerings with SUSE alliance

Redmonk analyzes the cost of the cloud

Alibaba offers foreign tech firms a leg up in China

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