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

MapR ships new Hadoop distro with Apache Drill 1.2

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Hadoop distro maker MapR Technologies Inc. has rolled out a new version of its enterprise Big Data platform featuring the latest release of the open-source Apache Drill, alongside a new Data Exploration Quick Start Solution. Map R is the lead developer of …

Cloud growth boosts Microsoft’s Q1 earnings above estimates

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft posted mixed first quarter earnings for its fiscal year 2016, with revenues of $21.66 billion – a 7. percent year-on-year decline that still exceeded analysts’ estimates. Microsoft also reported net income of $5.38 billion, or $0.67 per share, beating out Wall …

Trend Micro acquires TippingPoint to solidify its network security solutions

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

IT security leader Trend Micro Inc. has said it’s to buy Hewlett-Packard Co.’s TippingPoint, a provider of network intrusion prevention systems and related gear, in a $300 million deal. For Trend Micro, it gets its hands on both TippingPoint’s technology and also …

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 …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

MapR ships new Hadoop distro with Apache Drill 1.2

Cloud growth boosts Microsoft’s Q1 earnings above estimates

Trend Micro acquires TippingPoint to solidify its network security solutions

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

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