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Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile.

Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach.

Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Microsoft just bought 10 million strands of DNA

By Mike Wheatley Apr 28, 2016

Microsoft’s madcap scientists are set to buy 10 million long oligonucleotides as they ramp up the company’s efforts at making DNA storage a viable proposition. Microsoft Research is buying the long oligonucleotides, which are…

vCloud Air boss Bill Fathers quits VMware

By Mike Wheatley Apr 28, 2016

VMware Inc.’s top cloud executive Bill Fathers is stepping down as boss of vCloud Air after a three-year stint, Fortune reported on Wednesday. vCloud Air has struggled to gain traction in the cloud market…

Dell doubles down on the Internet of Things

By Mike Wheatley Apr 27, 2016

Dell Inc. is looking to expand its Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio with the expertise of more than two dozen partners, including Microsoft and SAP SE. The company launched its IoT business unit just…

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich lays out his vision of the future

By Mike Wheatley Apr 27, 2016

Last week was a pretty bad one for Intel, which saw its share price decline in the wake of news that it’s to layoff 12,000 employees, or about 11 percent of its total workforce,…

Dell’s government cloud services get a boost with FedRAMP certification

By Mike Wheatley Apr 27, 2016

Dell Inc. has had its government cloud officially certified to show it meets federal cloud security standards, which should make it a lot easier for the company to start winning business from federal agencies.…

Spark rival Apache Apex hits top-level status

By Mike Wheatley Apr 26, 2016

Apache Apex was yesterday moved up to become the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)’s latest top-level project. Apache Apex is an open-source stream and batch processing platform that’s compatible with HDFS and YARN, runs in-memory,…

Fake cyberattackers rake in over $100,000 with empty threats

By Mike Wheatley Apr 26, 2016

It turns out you don’t even need to be a hacker to make a nice living from cybercrime. Instead, all you need to do is pretend to be one. An enterprising extortionist appears to…

Cloud control: OpenStack offers first admin certificatication

By Mike Wheatley Apr 26, 2016

OpenStack works great – but only if you know what you’re doing. To ensure companies can get hold of people with the right stuff, it’s lifting the lid off of a new certification program.…

Security is becoming less of a concern for the software-defined data center

By Mike Wheatley Apr 25, 2016

Many proponents of the software-defined data center (SDDC) believe this is the year that it will gain significant traction on its path to becoming a permanent fixture among larger enterprises. One of the main…

Fears grow over the size of Dell’s debt once EMC acquisition goes through

By Mike Wheatley Apr 25, 2016

Dell Inc.’s already extremely convoluted acquisition of EMC Corp. could be about to get even more so, according to new reports. According to a Wall Street Journal report last week, Dell may be faced…