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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

Cloud spending hits new heights, tops $110bn

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Synergy Research Group has dedicated 2015 as “The Year of the Cloud”, saying it marked the year that cloud services and infrastructure officially become mainstream in the enterprise. Last week, Synergy posted the results of a study measuring growth rates in six …

Danny Sabbah joins two other IBM execs out the door

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

IBM has shed three of its top executives in the last month, including its cloud chief technology officer Danny Sabbah, who had spent the last 27 years at Big Blue. Fortune reports that Sabbah left IBM in late December. He first joined …

EMC’s Chad Sakac takes over at VCE as layoffs loom

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

EMC Corp. has unveiled veteran executive and former theCUBE guest Chad Sakac as the new president of VCE, its converged infrastructure business that combines compute, storage and networking into a single product. Sakac has been a stalwart of EMC for the past …

Microsoft quietly launches R Server for Big Data analytics

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has launched a new advanced analytics platform based on the R programming language, less than a year after it acquired Revolution Analytics, the company that was previously the leading commercial provider of software and services for R. The new platform is …

Indiegogo opens the door to Enterprise Crowdfunding

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Crowdfunding site Indiegogo yesterday announced a new service aimed at helping big businesses to gather funds for their Research & Development projects, validate new products and offer cash prizes to people who can propose new ideas for them to work on. The …

Yahoo! investors agitate for a change of leadership

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

The so-called activist investment firm Starboard Value LP is agitating for a complete overhaul of the management at Yahoo! Inc., claiming that the venerable Web giant is leaking cash with no recovery in sight. The investors penned the following letter to Yahoo’s …

Microsoft’s about to bid farewell to IE 8, 9 and 10

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft will drop support for several iterations of its Internet Explorer browser from Tuesday next week. On January 12, Microsoft will introduce a new policy on browser support, which means that most older version of IE will not be updated anymore. It’s …

Microsoft & Rambus team up to build quantum computing memory

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Semiconductor and IP technology vendor Rambus Inc. has revealed it’s collaborating with Microsoft Research to explore future memory requirements for quantum computing. The company announced the new partnership just before the holidays, saying that its “promising but largely untested” technologies are slowly …

Snapchat said to be developing an API for advertising

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Snapchat Inc. is reported to be holding discussions with various advertising agencies about building an API for its popular messenger app. If it did so, it would be the first time Snapchat has moved into ad tech, according to Digiday, which first …

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