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

Facebook paves the ground for a wave of smarter chatbots

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Out of nowhere, bots are suddenly all the rage. Last week at Build 2016, we saw Microsoft release a bunch of bot-building tools for developers. Now, Facebook is throwing its hat into the bot battle with the beta launch of Bot Engine, …

Jigsaw malware hijacks PCs and deletes files every hour until a ransom is paid

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

A new and extremely ruthless kind of ransomware has evolved that not only locks your files away, but deletes them if you don’t pay up promptly to the cybercriminals who created it. Called Jigsaw, the ransomware begins deleting an infected computer’s files …

Node.js rapidly driving IoT app development, container adoption

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

With more than 3.5 million users, the Node.js cross-platform runtime environment is one of the fastest growing platforms for web, IoT and enterprise app development. So popular in fact, that the Node.js Foundation today decided to release its first-ever survey on the …

Datera bursts onto the scene with AWS-like cloud scale-out storage

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Datera Inc. has become the latest storage startup to move out of stealth, promising an Amazon Web Services-esque cloud storage offering aimed at large enterprises and service providers. In that respect Datera probably sounds familiar, not least because companies like Ceph, Gluster, …

Box/IBM intro Box Zones, letting customers choose where their data resides

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

For many organizations the matter of where there cloud-based data resides is of extreme importance. Organizations have performance, privacy and governance concerns to contend with, and data sovereignty is a big part of this. With that in mind, Box Inc. is expanding …

Nexenta & Canonical team up on SDS for OpenStack

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Canonical Ltd. has teamed up with Nexenta Systems Inc. to create a combined Ubuntu OpenStack and NexentaEdge solution. The two firms have integrated two existing products – Ubuntu’s Juju service model for automating application deployment and management, and NexentaEdge, a combined block …

Researchers find a way to easily retrieve data stored in DNA

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

DNA as a possible method of data storage just moved a step closer towards viability, after researchers found a way to make such data searchable and directly accessible. The University of Washington researchers encoded four images in DNA, then were able to …

Diamonds may hold the secret to quantum computing

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Researchers at MIT may have just cracked one of the biggest challenges in their path to building a quantum computer. The concept of quantum superposition refers to the ability of ‘qubits’, the atomic-scale building blocks of quantum computers, to inhabit multiple physical …

Dell SecureWorks report: Hacking courses, corporate emails accounts for just $500, and much, much more

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Cybercrime has gotten so sophisticated that the underground market for such services is little different from more legitimate markets. Hackers on underground forums promote their abilities and products to prospective buyers by listing their experience and skills, while showing off how “honest” …

OpenStack Mitaka release focuses on ease of use

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

OpenStack’s evolution continues with the release of its 13th edition, Mitaka. The new release is positioned as “an integration engine that can manage bare metal, virtual machines, and container orchestration frameworks with a single set of APIs” and brings improvements in the …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Facebook paves the ground for a wave of smarter chatbots

Jigsaw malware hijacks PCs and deletes files every hour until a ransom is paid

Node.js rapidly driving IoT app development, container adoption

Box/IBM intro Box Zones, letting customers choose where their data resides

Nexenta & Canonical team up on SDS for OpenStack

Researchers find a way to easily retrieve data stored in DNA

Diamonds may hold the secret to quantum computing

Dell SecureWorks report: Hacking courses, corporate emails accounts for just $500, and much, much more

OpenStack Mitaka release focuses on ease of use

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