Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

EMC’s executive exodus won’t rock the Federation boat, analysts say

By Mike Wheatley Aug 26, 2015

EMC Corp’s executive exodus claimed its sixth and seventh victims this week, with the departure of VMware Inc. strategist Chuck Hollis closely followed by that of chief technology officer Ben Fathi. Other big names…

Salesforce cloud platform gets a much-needed makeover

By Mike Wheatley Aug 26, 2015

Salesforce.com Inc. is finally revamping its services with a new user interface that brings it into the modern age. On Tuesday, Salesforce unveiled the Lightning Experience, a redesigned UI that will deliver users an…

Basho beefs up Riak KV database with Apache Mesos

By Mike Wheatley Aug 25, 2015

Basho Technologies Inc., the company that develops the NoSQL-based Riak KV database, is teaming up with Cisco Systems Ltd. to build a framework that’ll allow Riak KV to run on Apache Mesos, the open-source…

VMware’s quiet NSX 6.2 release suggests little or no progress on SDN

By Mike Wheatley Aug 24, 2015

VMware Inc. has quietly released an update to its NSX virtualized network platform. NSX 6.2 was slipped out the back door without any fanfare four days ago, and the lack of any raving from…

Mirantis grabs $100M in Intel-led funding round

By Mike Wheatley Aug 24, 2015

Pure-play OpenStack vendor Mirantis Inc. has just grabbed a second $100 million funding round led by Intel Capital, with participation from existing investors August Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Ericsson, Sapphire Ventures and WestSummit Capital.…

Chuck Hollis quits VMware as EMC executive shakeup continues

By Mike Wheatley Aug 24, 2015

Yet another top executive has bailed out of the EMC Federation. Chuck Hollis, VMware Inc.’s chief strategist for storage and availability, and formerly EMC Corp.’s global marketing chief technology officer, has said he’s quitting…

BitTorrent trackers ‘ban’ Windows 10, and Russia could be next

By Mike Wheatley Aug 24, 2015

Windows 10 might have been downloaded more than 50 million times already, but it’s been far less well received by certain sections of the online community. At least, not by those who value their…

Oracle swoops on Maxymiser to boost its Marketing Cloud

By Mike Wheatley Aug 21, 2015

Enterprise giant Oracle Corp. has made a new acquisition in the shape of Maxymiser, which offers cloud-based software for marketers to test, target and personalize what customers see on web pages, for an undisclosed…

MapR’s Hadoop platform lands on AWS cloud

By Mike Wheatley Aug 21, 2015

MapR Technologies Inc. has just made its Hadoop distribution available on Amazon Web Services via the AWS Marketplace. With the availability of MapR on AWS, enterprises now have another quick and easy option for…

HP revenues slump in final earnings call before splitting up

By Mike Wheatley Aug 21, 2015

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced profits that fell short of estimates in its fiscal third quarter earnings report, the last the company will make before it splits into two. CEO Meg Whitman said on Thursday that…

Mike Wheatley

EMC’s executive exodus won’t rock the Federation boat, analysts say

Salesforce cloud platform gets a much-needed makeover

Basho beefs up Riak KV database with Apache Mesos

VMware’s quiet NSX 6.2 release suggests little or no progress on SDN

Mirantis grabs $100M in Intel-led funding round

Chuck Hollis quits VMware as EMC executive shakeup continues

BitTorrent trackers ‘ban’ Windows 10, and Russia could be next

Oracle swoops on Maxymiser to boost its Marketing Cloud

MapR’s Hadoop platform lands on AWS cloud

HP revenues slump in final earnings call before splitting up

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