Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

“Whistleblower” accuses Oracle of cooking its cloudy revenue books

By Mike Wheatley Jun 2, 2016

A former Oracle employee is taking the database giant to court, claiming the company fired her for refusing to inflate its cloud-based revenue figures. Svetlana Blackburn claimed in a whistleblower lawsuit filed in San…

SQL Server 2016 is ready for prime time

By Mike Wheatley Jun 1, 2016

Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 has finally hit general availability, and Redmond chiefs are launching the software alongside a special offer aimed at wooing customers away from leading database giant Oracle. Oracle users are being…

CoreOS creates Torus, a container-focused distributed storage system

By Mike Wheatley Jun 1, 2016

Container-centric startup CoreOS Inc. has taken the wraps off of a new open-source project called Torus. Just like the company’s other projects, Torus is about bringing the same Web-scale technologies used by giants like…

HPE goes all-in on the data center in search of revenue growth

By Mike Wheatley Jun 1, 2016

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) will place its bets on its main data center hardware business to continue driving the bulk of its revenues, once it’s done shedding its Enterprise Server business. HPE, which only split…

Samsung: “We don’t suggest installation of Windows 10”

By Mike Wheatley Jun 1, 2016

Microsoft claims Windows 10 has already been installed on more than 300 million devices, and has so far refused to let up in its aggressive push to get even more users to upgrade. But…

Microsoft Azure offers “unintentional” discounts to some foreign buyers

By Mike Wheatley May 31, 2016

It’s possible to obtain steep discounts on the price of Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, if you’re willing to write a check in a currency that isn’t U.S. dollars. A new report in The Register…

Dell & Qualcomm announce key partnerships in China

By Mike Wheatley May 31, 2016

Dell Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. are the latest U.S. firms to announce key partnerships with Chinese organizations aimed at expanding their presence in the Middle Kingdom’s massive market. Dell is investing in a Chinese…

Iran orders social media firms to store data within its borders

By Mike Wheatley May 30, 2016

Iran is getting serious about data sovereignty, demanding that foreign social media and messaging apps transfer their data to facilities inside the Islamic Republic within one year. Iran has long been known for trying…

NuTonomy’s self-driving taxis could hit Singapore streets in just 2 years

By Mike Wheatley May 30, 2016

Self-driving taxis might become a reality in as little as two years, if a Boston-area startup gets its way. NuTonomy, founded by a pair of MIT scientists in 2013, has just closed on a…

The 5 biggest markets the IoT is poised to disrupt

By Mike Wheatley May 30, 2016

Few disagree that the Internet of Things is accelerating at rapid speed. Gartner Inc. predicts there’ll be more than 25 billion connected devices in the world by 2020, generating revenues of more than $300…

Mike Wheatley

SQL Server 2016 is ready for prime time

CoreOS creates Torus, a container-focused distributed storage system

HPE goes all-in on the data center in search of revenue growth

Samsung: “We don’t suggest installation of Windows 10”

Microsoft Azure offers “unintentional” discounts to some foreign buyers

Dell & Qualcomm announce key partnerships in China

NuTonomy’s self-driving taxis could hit Singapore streets in just 2 years

The 5 biggest markets the IoT is poised to disrupt

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