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

U.K. Chief scientist Sir Mark Walport advocates Bitcoin blockchain adoption

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

The U.K. government’s chief scientist is urging ministers there to consider adopting Bitcoin’s blockchain technology for use in the private and public sectors, saying it could be used as a more reliable way to deliver services than the current, centralized systems they …

China could be about to launch its own digital currency

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

China is reportedly considering launching its own virtual currency, having clamped down on Bitcoin use in the country. According to a report in The Register, China’s central bank is looking at virtual currencies as a means of exerting more control over the …

GPS-equipped vultures lead Peru’s war on trash

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Authorities in the Peruvian capital city Lima have a new weapon in their war against illegal waste dumpers. They’ve taken to equipping vultures with GPS tracking devices and, soon, GoPro cameras, in an effort to help officials crack down on the rise …

Google pitches Cloud Dataflow to the Apache Software Foundation

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Google is making its first major open-source move of the year by offering up its Dataflow technology to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as an incubator project. Google is hoping to spur more collaborative efforts and governance around its technology, which is …

Nvidia to power AliCloud’s new Deep Learning and Big Data services

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

China’s Alibaba Group Holding Limited is stepping up its efforts to take on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in the cloud with a new multi-billion dollar partnership with Nvidia Corp. that will see the chipmaker’s silicon power its new Big Data …

Skills shortage stalls OpenStack adoption

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

OpenStack’s potential in the enterprise is being held back by an acute skills shortage, causing numerous organizations to fail in their efforts at deploying the open-source cloud software stack, according to a new survey. Linux vendor SUSE LLC’s survey on OpenStack adoption …

China’s Meituan-Dianping scores $3bn in tech’s biggest-ever funding round

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

A Chinese firm that hawks movie tickets and restaurant bookings among other things has just become the recipient of what it claims is the single largest non-IPO funding round ever raised in the tech industry. Meituan-Dianping, which The Wall Street Journal describes …

Kirill Tatarinov snags Citrix CEO role as activist investor pressure mounts

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Citrix Systems, Inc. has landed itself a new CEO and president in the shape of ex-Microsoft executive Kirill Tatarinov. Tatarinov held a variety of positions during his eight year tenure at Microsoft, acting as its president and executive vice president, as well …

Hortonworks shares plunge 22% on news of secondary IPO

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Bad vibes among shareholders of Hortonworks Inc. resulted in the company’s share price collapsing 22 percent yesterday. The stock fell following an announcement that that company is looking to raise $100 million in a secondary share offering, often referred to as a …

Microsoft announces a great cloud giveaway: $1 billion up for grabs

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella is in a somewhat generous mood, and has decided to donate his company’s expertise in cloud computing to the “public good” by giving away $1 billion worth of cloud services to nonprofits over the next three years. Altogether, …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

U.K. Chief scientist Sir Mark Walport advocates Bitcoin blockchain adoption

China could be about to launch its own digital currency

GPS-equipped vultures lead Peru’s war on trash

Google pitches Cloud Dataflow to the Apache Software Foundation

Nvidia to power AliCloud’s new Deep Learning and Big Data services

Skills shortage stalls OpenStack adoption

China’s Meituan-Dianping scores $3bn in tech’s biggest-ever funding round

Kirill Tatarinov snags Citrix CEO role as activist investor pressure mounts

Hortonworks shares plunge 22% on news of secondary IPO

Microsoft announces a great cloud giveaway: $1 billion up for grabs

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