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. gov embraces Libre Office, kicks Microsoft into touch

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

The U.K. government has made a deal to make the open-source office suite Libre Office available across its public sector, in what seems to be an effort to ween itself off of Microsoft Office. The U.K.’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS) said this …

HP to put public cloud out of its misery in Jan 2016 – Updated

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Correction: HP is only sunsetting the Public Cloud ONLY not the Helion cloud platform. Hewlett Packard Co. has put an end to the confusion surrounding the future of its HP Helion Public Cloud platform. There isn’t going to be any future, because HP …

Docker acquires Tutum to deliver cross-cloud container management

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

In an effort to bridge the gap between app development and production deployment, Docker Inc. has acquired Tutum Inc., a two-year-old startup that develops cloud services for deploying and managing distributed apps inside Docker containers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. …

Tableau Vizable delivers Big Data visualizations to the masses

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Tableau Software Inc. is looking to broaden its horizons and bring Big Data to the masses with a new product for iOS devices that lets anyone dig into their data and visualize what they’re doing right or wrong. The opportunity is certainly …

EMC/VMware spin out Virtustream as new Cloud Services Business

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

EMC Corp.’s and VMware Inc.’s cloud computing efforts are to be reorganized into a new business unit that combines units from both with those of Virtustream, the cloud software and services provider that EMC acquired in a $1.2 billion deal earlier this …

Oracle offers up new OpenStack release as Docker instances

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Oracle has updated its Oracle OpenStack platform, almost a year to the day after it first released its own flavor of the open-source cloud-building fabric. The new release, called Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux Release 2, has been updated with containers in …

Microsoft intros Skype Links, allowing anyone to join in the chat

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft wants Skype to be the de facto communications platform for people all over the world, so much so that users don’t even need to install the Skype app on their devices. Skype for Web is a browser-based version of Skype that …

Michael Dell spells out his plans for VMware: No big changes, for now

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Exactly one week after Dell Inc.’s $67 billion mega-acquisition of storage giant EMC Corp., CEO Michael Dell has penned a blog post outlining his plans for VMware Inc., the virtualization giant that accounts for the bulk of the EMC Federation’s value. With …

Microsoft sweetens the deal for Windows 10 with ‘Easy Trade Up’ program

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft is hoping to bait new Windows 10 buyers through a new program called “Easy Trade Up” that’s designed to let them cash in on their old machines. For a limited period only, Microsoft is willing to pay up to $200 for …

Steve Ballmer takes an $800 million stake in Twitter

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed he’s taken a four percent stake in Twitter, in a move that makes him a bigger shareholder than new CEO Jack Dorsey. “Glad I bought 4% past few months,” Ballmer tweeted from a newly verified account. …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

U.K. gov embraces Libre Office, kicks Microsoft into touch

HP to put public cloud out of its misery in Jan 2016 – Updated

Docker acquires Tutum to deliver cross-cloud container management

Tableau Vizable delivers Big Data visualizations to the masses

Oracle offers up new OpenStack release as Docker instances

Microsoft intros Skype Links, allowing anyone to join in the chat

Michael Dell spells out his plans for VMware: No big changes, for now

Microsoft sweetens the deal for Windows 10 with ‘Easy Trade Up’ program

Steve Ballmer takes an $800 million stake in Twitter

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