Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Typesafe sends Apache Spark flying with commercial support

By Mike Wheatley Nov 2, 2015

Typesafe Inc., the company co-founded by Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala programming language, has announced full commercial support for the Apache Spark Big data processing engine. The move was announced at the Spark…

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Rackspace offers up Carina containers-as-a-service in beta

By Mike Wheatley Nov 2, 2015

Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Inc. is now offering containers-as-a-service through in beta through its newly announced Carina service. Carina is a hosted Docker-based container service that’s currently only available to customers in the U.S.…

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Amazon, Google & Wal-Mart to work with FAA on drone regs

By Mike Wheatley Nov 1, 2015

Delivery drone wannabees Amazon.com, Inc., Google and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. have signed on to a government task force headed up by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to help devise an identification and registration system…

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How the “Big Three” cloud vendors plan to differentiate their services

By Mike Wheatley Oct 28, 2015

Last week saw Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft all reported stunning growth in their respective cloud computing segments. The numbers underline what IT watchers have known for some time already – that there’s…

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Report: IT staff are the biggest threat to IT security

By Mike Wheatley Oct 27, 2015

The biggest risk to IT security isn’t posed by malware or hackers or even the threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack on your infrastructure. Rather, the most immediate danger lies much closer to home,…

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IBM in advanced talks to acquire The Weather Co.’s digital assets for $2B

By Mike Wheatley Oct 27, 2015

IBM is said to be close to acquiring the digital and data assets of The Weather Company, with talks said to be at an advanced stage, according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper…

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Walmart applies to test delivery drones to compete with Amazon

By Mike Wheatley Oct 27, 2015

Retail giant Walmart Stores Inc. is jumping on the drones bandwagon, with an application to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to let it begin testing drones in U.S. airspace. The end goal, according to…

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Enterprise applications are “too complex” claims new study

By Mike Wheatley Oct 27, 2015

The complexity of enterprise applications and their underlying infrastructure leads some employees to use simpler, consumer applications instead of approved company tools to complete some critical tasks, a new study has found. The takeaway…

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Ex-VMware CTO Ben Fathi joins CloudFlare

By Mike Wheatley Oct 27, 2015

VMware Inc.’s ex-chief technology officer Ben Fathi is back at work barely two months after leaving his old job, having joined up with CloudFlare Inc. as its new head of engineering. Fathi outlined his…

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Under pressure: Might Marissa Mayer jump ship too?

By Mike Wheatley Oct 26, 2015

A number of recent high-level executive departures at Yahoo! Inc. suggests that company’s turnaround under CEO Marissa Mayer is rapidly losing momentum, little more than three years after she took over the reins. The…

Mike Wheatley

Typesafe sends Apache Spark flying with commercial support

Rackspace offers up Carina containers-as-a-service in beta

Amazon, Google & Wal-Mart to work with FAA on drone regs

Report: IT staff are the biggest threat to IT security

IBM in advanced talks to acquire The Weather Co.’s digital assets for $2B

Walmart applies to test delivery drones to compete with Amazon

Enterprise applications are “too complex” claims new study

Ex-VMware CTO Ben Fathi joins CloudFlare

Under pressure: Might Marissa Mayer jump ship too?

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