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.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

The drones are coming! FAA to establish ‘guidelines’ by April 1

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

Drones could be about to become a lot more commonplace in a variety of industries after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it’s ready to finalize a regulatory framework governing their use by businesses. The FAA said in a statement that a …

Yahoo just made deep learning easier with CaffeOnSpark

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

Yahoo! Inc., is getting into the artificial intelligence (AI) game with the release of new internally-built software under an open-source license. Called CaffeOnSpark, the software is able to perform ‘deep learning’ on the vast ocean of data kept in Yahoo’s Hadoop file …

Martin Casado quits VMware to join Andreessen Horowitz

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. executive Martin Casado, who’s currently in charge of its NSX software-defined networking business unit, is to leave the company to become a general partner at well known venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. VMware’s NSX business unit was created shortly after …

Google launches Project Shield to crusade against DDoS attacks

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

Attacking your enemies online can be incredibly cheap. For those who know where to look, it can cost as little as $150 to launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on a website and take it offline. Well, Google happens to …

IBM said to be scoping out Bruce Schneier’s Resilient Systems

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

IBM is said to be out shopping for security experts and technology, and could be about to land incident response solution provider Resilient Systems, Inc., in a deal valued at $100 million. Business news website Xconomy cites “persons with knowledge of the …

Nowhere to hide: Rapid7 uses behavior analytics + search to hunt down attackers

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

IT security has long been viewed as a game of cat and mouse, with security firms building increasingly sophisticated security systems designed to keep the bad guys out, and hackers constantly coming up with ingenious new ways to crack corporate security. The …

More than 4 billion people still offline, many have never heard of “the Internet”

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

The world is more connected than at any other point in history. These days it’s almost impossible to get on a bus or a subway or even walk into an office or school classroom without seeing someone playing with their smartphone, looking …

Dell/EMC merger gets FTC approval

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY10 YEARS AGO

Dell Inc. and EMC Corp.’s proposed merger moved one step closer to realization today when the U.S. Federal Trade Commission gave it the thumbs up following the expiry of the 1976 Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act-mandated 30-day waiting period. The terms of the …

MapR & Ericsson bid to bolster communications with Big Data

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies, Inc. is hoping to bring the power of Hadoop and Spark to the communications service provider market. The company is teaming up with Ericsson to develop offerings that leverage MapR’s Converged Data Platform to deliver more efficient, real-time data processing …

What’s next for Apache Spark? Databricks drops a few hints

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Databricks Inc., the leading commercial entity behind the Apache Spark, the open source cluster computing framework for Big Data processing, last week dropped a few hints about some of the new features we can expect to see in Spark 2.0. There’s still …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

The drones are coming! FAA to establish ‘guidelines’ by April 1

Yahoo just made deep learning easier with CaffeOnSpark

Martin Casado quits VMware to join Andreessen Horowitz

Google launches Project Shield to crusade against DDoS attacks

IBM said to be scoping out Bruce Schneier’s Resilient Systems

Nowhere to hide: Rapid7 uses behavior analytics + search to hunt down attackers

More than 4 billion people still offline, many have never heard of “the Internet”

Dell/EMC merger gets FTC approval

MapR & Ericsson bid to bolster communications with Big Data

What’s next for Apache Spark? Databricks drops a few hints

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