Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
PC market nosedives as Windows XP replacement cycle ends
Despite showing signs of life earlier this year, the PC market has once again hit a downward trend, according to analysts from Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp. Both industry watchers released their quarterly PC market trackers yesterday, with Gartner showing shipments fell by 5.2 percent to 71.7 million units in Q1, while IDC said ...
Microsoft unloads virtualized containers for Windows Server
Microsoft had a busy day at the office yesterday, announcing the launch of its very own container technology that’s designed to run on its Windows Server operating system. In addition, it also announced the general availability of its Azure DocumentDB NoSQL database, and a stripped-down version of Windows Server designed only to run containers. The ...
AtScale bursts out of stealth to bring Hadoop to the masses
Enterprise employees are well acquainted with software like Microsoft Excel, but the same cannot be said for technologies like Hadoop, even though it’s considerably more powerful. But with Big Data rapidly becoming mainstream, even smaller organizations are keen to get their hands on the kinds of insights that only tools like Hadoop can deliver. Enter ...
HP faces up to reality: “It makes no sense for us to go head-to-head with Amazon”
Hewlett-Packard Co. has raised a few eyebrows by publicly admitting that it has no chance of competing in the public cloud infrastructure market against the likes of Amazon Web Services, and is “ceding the public cloud”, according to Quentin Hardy in the New York Times. “We thought people would rent or buy computing from us. ...
Microsoft plans ‘Redstone’ update to Windows 10 in summer 2016
We haven’t even seen Windows 10 hit the shelves, but already Microsoft has penned a date for its next major updates to the long-awaited operating system that many believe will right all the wrongs of Windows 8. The news, confirmed by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, is that “Windows Threshold”, the codename for Windows 10, will ...
ZenPayroll grabs $60M from Google Capital to build out cloud-based payroll processing solution
Cloud-based payroll software provider ZenPayroll has cobbled together $60 million in a series B funding round led by Google Capital. The latest round, which also saw participation from Emergence Capital Partners, Ribbit Capital, General Catalyst and Kleiner Perkin, brings its total funding to $86.1 million. ZenPayroll has made some big strides since its launch just ...
Intel bids to mask mobile losses with new reporting structure
Intel Corp. has announced a change to the way it reports its quarterly earnings in an all-too-obvious effort to mask the poor performance of its Mobile and Communications division. The chip maker unveiled its new financial reporting structure on Monday, saying it plans to combine its Mobile and Communications group with its PC Client division, ...
Microsoft seals the deal for Revolution Analytics
Microsoft has completed its takeover of Revolution Analytics, the company that commercalizes R, a programming language designed specifically to perform statistical analysis that has soared in popularity over recent years with the rise of data scientists. Revolution Analytics offers the Revolution R suite of tools that makes it possible to gain insights from large data ...
Oracle adds Big Data Integration tool to streamline Hadoop deployments
Oracle Corp. yesterday took the wraps off its new Data Integrator for Big Data, a solution that’s designed to help facilitate data integration and help deliver actionable insights to customers. The news comes shortly after Oracle announced a new grand vision for enterprise Big Data, releasing a clutch of new tools aimed at enabling its ...
Open-source eats open-source: Why the innovation will never stop
Technology only exists thanks to innovation. If nobody was pushing the boundaries with fresh ideas, then technology, and the people who depend on it, would have died out with the neanderthals. But while many people might believe the big tech vendors are the ones responsible for driving most of the innovation in computing today, that ...