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

NASA proposes FireSat system to detect wildfires from space

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

NASA says it wants to build a vast new constellation of satellites to monitor and protect the Earth, and it’s turning to an unlikely source of funding – through Kickstarter – in order to do so. But before you start panicking, realize …

Windows Server 2016 preview offers first glimpse of Hyper-V containers

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has hit a milestone with the inclusion of Hyper-V containers, a new technology designed to support containerized applications, in the fourth technical preview of the upcoming Windows Server 2016 operating system. The release is Microsoft’s attempt to cater to the rapidly …

Jolla’s lost its jolly: Layoffs loom as funding dries up

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Finnish mobile maker Jolla has fallen on hard times, just two years after the company debuted the first smartphone running Sailfish OS, an alternative operating system based on Nokia’s old MeeGo platform, whose inventors hoped would become the ‘third’ major mobile operating …

Federal data center consolidation plan goes awry with 2,000 ‘forgotten’ facilities

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

It turns out that the U.S government’s much-hyped data center consolidation program has spectacularly failed, despite earlier claims that federal agencies had saved around $3.6 billion between 2011 and 2014 by closing down data centers and migrating to the cloud. The stark …

Google lets you build a customized cloud instance in an instant

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Google has made an interesting move to woo developers to its cloud platform by allowing them to create compute images with customized memory and virtual CPU configurations. The new feature is called Custom Machine Types, and can basically be thought of as …

Google bags VMware co-founder Diane Greene to transform its cloud business

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Google has pulled off a minor coup by convincing VMware Inc. founder Diane Greene to head up its cloud computing business. Greene was convinced to join Google after the Web giant snapped up her latest startup, a company called Bebop Technologies. She’ll …

Cloudera takes aim at Big Data pain with new Hadoop release

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Big Data leader Cloudera Inc. is hoping to take the sting out of running Hadoop with the latest release of its flagship Cloudera Enterprise 5.5 platform. The new release includes a limited beta of a new tool that helps customers better understand which …

Nokia’s Suri says Cisco-Ericsson partnership validates his Alcatel-Lucent takeover

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Nokia Oyj CEO Rajeev Suri said the recently announced partnership between Cisco Systems Ltd and Ericsson AB that will see the two companies resell each other’s products and services and develop new ones jointly, confirms that his decision to acquire Alcatel-Lucent SA …

Splice Machine revs up RDBMS solution with Apache Spark

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Splice Machine Inc. has added some analytical muscle to its SQL-RDBMS-on-Hadoop solution by tapping into Apache Spark’s in-memory technology. The result is a hybrid SQL database businesses can use to perform transactional and analytical workloads in tandem. The database is already a …

Azerbaijan’s Internet access goes up in flames

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

The entire population of Azerbaijan was wiped off the Internet for several hours on Monday night, after a fire overwhelmed a data center operated by Delta Telecom, the main ISP in the country. Azerbaijan fell into the abyss at around 4 pm …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

NASA proposes FireSat system to detect wildfires from space

Windows Server 2016 preview offers first glimpse of Hyper-V containers

Jolla’s lost its jolly: Layoffs loom as funding dries up

Federal data center consolidation plan goes awry with 2,000 ‘forgotten’ facilities

Cloudera takes aim at Big Data pain with new Hadoop release

Nokia’s Suri says Cisco-Ericsson partnership validates his Alcatel-Lucent takeover

Splice Machine revs up RDBMS solution with Apache Spark

Azerbaijan’s Internet access goes up in flames

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