Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Brexit begins to make its mark on IT spending

By Mike Wheatley Jul 8, 2016

Brexit, the so-called British exit from the European Union, has already led to speculation that global IT markets may slump as the British pound slumped to a 31-year low against the U.S. dollar. Now,…

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Ubuntu lands on Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2016

Pivotal Software, Inc. has said it will provide secure images of Canonical Ltd’s Ubuntu Linux distribution atop of its Cloud Foundry platform, in another move that highlights the steady shift towards cloud-native infrastructure. The…

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Public cloud spending to grow by $23 billion in 2016

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2016

Yet more evidence that the future of IT lies in the cloud comes from International Data Corp. (IDC), which says public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will increase spending on data…

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Machine learning is all the rage with Big Data developers

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2016

Machine learning has advanced to the point where it more or less goes hand-in-hand with Big Data. Indeed, so popular is the technology that over a third of developers – some 36 percent –…

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Google rolls out Kubernetes 3.1 to advance containers in production

By Mike Wheatley Jul 7, 2016

Today marks the release of Kubernetes 1.3, the latest edition of Google’s hit container cluster management solution. The new edition is available on GitHub and also in Google’s Container Engine Service. With Kubernetes 3.1,…

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CoreOS’ key-value store etcd gets a major upgrade

By Mike Wheatley Jul 6, 2016

Container software vendor CoreOS Inc. has just released the latest version of its distributed key-value platform “etcd”, which is used to store data in containers across clusters. The platform, which is already integrated with…

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Microsoft makes video conferencing free with Skype Meetings

By Mike Wheatley Jul 6, 2016

Microsoft is making it cheaper and easier for small businesses to conduct teleconferences and virtual meetings with its new Skype Meetings services, rolled out yesterday. A free service, Skype Meetings allows users to hold…

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Corporate “no-cloud” policies to be extinct by 2020, Gartner says

By Mike Wheatley Jul 5, 2016

Cloud computing is getting so pervasive throughout the enterprise that Gartner Inc. is predicting so-called “no-cloud” policies will become as rare as “no-Internet” stances in the near future. Gartner’s report, Market Insight: Cloud Computing’s…

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Facebook tries to overcome language barriers with new multilingual composer tool

By Mike Wheatley Jul 4, 2016

Facebook is betting on a new kind of artificial intelligence (AI) software to break down language barriers and bring its users closer together. The social media giant has just rolled out a new feature…

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Microsoft to “modernize” licensing with new Enterprise Advantage on MPSA

By Mike Wheatley Jul 4, 2016

In an effort to simplify its often tortuous licensing agreements, Microsoft has created a new program called Enterprise Advantage on MPSA. The new program, which is absolutely not to be confused with existing Enterprise…

Mike Wheatley

Brexit begins to make its mark on IT spending

Public cloud spending to grow by $23 billion in 2016

Machine learning is all the rage with Big Data developers

Google rolls out Kubernetes 3.1 to advance containers in production

Microsoft makes video conferencing free with Skype Meetings

Facebook tries to overcome language barriers with new multilingual composer tool

Microsoft to “modernize” licensing with new Enterprise Advantage on MPSA

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