Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Rackspace rocks it with a solid Q4, but weak outlook worries shareholders

By Mike Wheatley Feb 17, 2016

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…

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SKYNET, an AI system built by the NSA to locate terrorists, is mislabeling innocents as threats

By Mike Wheatley Feb 16, 2016

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…

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Infinit wants to become the “Docker of Storage”

By Mike Wheatley Feb 16, 2016

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…

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No more Moore’s Law, but innovation will continue

By Mike Wheatley Feb 16, 2016

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…

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GridGain ignites its In-Memory Data Fabric platform

By Mike Wheatley Feb 15, 2016

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…

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Iron.io’s Project Kratos promises AWS Lambda without the lock-in

By Mike Wheatley Feb 15, 2016

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…

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AWS buys a very NICE high-performance computing startup

By Mike Wheatley Feb 15, 2016

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…

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Will it? Won’t it? New doubts raised over Dell-EMC takeover

By Mike Wheatley Feb 12, 2016

Dell Inc.’s proposed $67 billion takeover of EMC Corp. is once again, with the New York Post reporting that bankers are having difficulty in raising the necessary cash to fund the acquisition. When the deal…

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Rackspace now hosts Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux OpenStack on its private cloud

By Mike Wheatley Feb 12, 2016

Rackspace Inc. has teamed up with Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. to add another Openstack-as-a-Service offering to its lineup. Rackspace Private Cloud powered by Red Hat is essentially Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform…

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Ignore Wall Street: Tableau’s still the king of Business Intelligence

By Mike Wheatley Feb 11, 2016

Stock market analysts trampled all over Tableau Software Inc. this week after the ‘darling of Big Data’ slashed its guidance on next quarter’s earnings. That move caused profit-hungry shareholders to recoil in horror, and resulted in Tableau’s…

Mike Wheatley

Rackspace rocks it with a solid Q4, but weak outlook worries shareholders

SKYNET, an AI system built by the NSA to locate terrorists, is mislabeling innocents as threats

Infinit wants to become the “Docker of Storage”

No more Moore’s Law, but innovation will continue

GridGain ignites its In-Memory Data Fabric platform

AWS buys a very NICE high-performance computing startup

Will it? Won’t it? New doubts raised over Dell-EMC takeover

Rackspace now hosts Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux OpenStack on its private cloud

Ignore Wall Street: Tableau’s still the king of Business Intelligence

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