Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
Dell/EMC deal almost in the bag, says Dell
Dell Inc. has written a letter to its employees saying that its deal to acquire EMC Corp. is on track, despite the appearance of a flurry of rumors to the contrary in recent weeks. An open letter to the company’s employees, Rory Read, Chief Integration Officer at Dell, said that he wants to “address some ...
Windows 10 just got a big thumbs up from the Department of Defense
Microsoft has been given a huge lift this morning with the news that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has agreed to migrate more than four million devices to Windows 10 by January next year. That’s a big boost for Microsoft, which revealed in January that Windows 10 was running on more than 200 million ...
Google now offers every possible Custom Machine Type you could ever want
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure thought they had it covered. With almost 80 different types of cloud server available to rent from AWS, and around half that number being offered by Azure, you might assume that between the two of them, they’ve got the right server for just about every possible use one ...
Rackspace rocks it with a solid Q4, but weak outlook worries shareholders
Rackspace Inc. beat out analyst’s expectations in its fourth quarter earnings report yesterday, thanks to a number of early signups for its managed services on Amazon Web Services. Rackspace said it hit earnings of $32 million in its fourth quarter, or $0.24 per share. Revenues hit $523 million for the quarter, an 11 percent rise ...
SKYNET, an AI system built by the NSA to locate terrorists, is mislabeling innocents as threats
A fundamental flaw with a US National Security Agency (NSA)’s machine learning program to identify terrorist suspects in Pakistan may have led to thousands of people in that country being wrongly labeled. A report in Ars Technica says that the SKYNET program – yep, they copied Terminator – uses what’s called an “analytic triage”, using ...
Infinit wants to become the “Docker of Storage”
File management startup Infinit International Inc. has just outed its latest product. Dubbed by the company as “The Docker of Storage”, the software is able to unify storage resources like clouds, servers and NAS into a single, centralized file system that reduces the latency associated with accessing data from multiple remote locations. Infinit’s software can ...
No more Moore’s Law, but innovation will continue
The semiconductor industry is no longer able to keep up with “Moore’s Law” and the theory will be laid to rest, experts say. Moore’s Law was first theorized by the legendary co-founder of Intel Corp., Gordon E Moore, way back in 1965. Moore stated at the time that the processing power of semiconductors and microchips ...
GridGain ignites its In-Memory Data Fabric platform
GridGain Systems Inc. is trying to fix a need for speed with a new update to its in-memory data fabric platform that promises a 2X performance boost. GridGain offers a high-performance, integrated and distributed in-memory data fabric based on Apache Ignite that’s designed for computing and transacting on large-scale data sets in real-time. GridGain Enterprise ...
Iron.io’s Project Kratos promises AWS Lambda without the lock-in
San Francisco-based startup Iron.io, which recently landed $8 million in funding, has just kicked off a project aimed at defeating the specter of cloud vendor lock-in. Called Project Kratos, the initiative will “enable enterprises to run AWS Lambda functionality in any cloud provider, as well as on-premises”, the company said. Iron.io already offers a task-queuing ...
AWS buys a very NICE high-performance computing startup
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is bolstering its high-performance computing (HPC) efforts with the acquisition of Italian software and services company Nice Software s.r.l. AWS didn’t divulge many details, but chief evangelist Jeff Barr did comment on the reasoning behind the acquisition in a blog post. “These [Nice] products help customers to optimize and centralize their high-performance computing ...