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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

AWS is worth $160 billion, Deutsche Bank analysts say

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

The value of Amazon Web Services has been pegged at a whopping $160 billion, according to analysts from Germany’s Deutsche Bank. On Tuesday, the bank’s Karl Keirstead issued a note saying that AWS’ cloud revenues would hit $16 billion by 2017. Therefore, …

IBM acquires Gravitant to flesh out its hybrid cloud strategy

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

IBM has snapped up 11-year old cloud brokerage services firm Gravitant Inc. for an undisclosed sum, in order to bolster the management capabilities and efficiency of its hybrid environments for enterprise customers, it said on Tuesday. Gravitant offers technology that enables the …

DJI’s Manifold gives drones the power of a PC

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Popular Chinese drone maker DJI Inc. is no longer just targeting hobbyists. The company is touting the Manifold, or in its own words “the most powerful computer designed for drones”, an embedded computer powered by a quad-core ARM Cortex A-15 processor. The …

HP Inc. shares skyrocket by 13% following split

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

The newly divorced HP Inc. raised a few eyebrows in the wake of its split yesterday when its share price jumped by more than 13 percent – in contrast to its ex, HP Enterprise, which saw its shares slump by more than …

EMC shareholder makes legal bid to block Dell takeover

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

A disgruntled EMC Corp. shareholder has thrown a potential legal spanner in the works ahead of its $67 billion takeover by Dell Inc., by filing a lawsuit that aims to block the acquisition. The lawsuit, which was first reported by Bloomberg, was …

Typesafe sends Apache Spark flying with commercial support

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

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 Summit Europe event in Amsterdam, Netherlands, last week, …

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

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

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. It provides a fully managed implementation of Docker …

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

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

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 for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). All three companies …

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