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

Teradata adopts Presto for Hadoop SQL queries

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Big Data analytics firm Teradata Corp. is throwing its considerable weight behind the open-source Presto project, which provides an SQL query engine for interactive queries. This could be a very big deal. Presto was, like so many open-source projects, born as an …

Microsoft opens first Transparency Center in Europe

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has opened the doors to a new “Transparency Center” in Brussels, allowing European governments to review the source code of its software to ensure it doesn’t contain any “backdoors” that might allow U.S. intelligence agencies to snoop on their data. The center, …

Google’s cloud analytics focus is a smokescreen, analysts say

WIKIBON By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Google might have lost the cloud race to Amazon Web Services, but it certainly hasn’t lost the war. Not yet anyway. Instead of chasing its rivals for market share, Google is heading down a different path, said Brian Stevens, the company’s vice …

Cockroach Labs gets $6.25M to build a more resilient database

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Cockroach Labs, the startup behind the funky-sounding CockroachDB database, last week announced its first round of funding, a series A totaling $6.25 million. The round was led by Benchmark, whose lead investor Peter Fenton joins the board of Cockroach Labs as part …

Get ready for The Machine: HP to unveil prototype next year

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Hewlett-Packard Company has said it will have a prototype of its fabled “Machine” computer ready by next year for its partners to start building software on, though a finished product is still five years away. HP revealed its ambitious plans for the …

Report: Almost 30% of physical servers sitting idle in data centers

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

A new report released this week has made the startling find that more than 10 million physical servers deployed in data centers around the world are sitting idle, not being used. The discovery was made by researchers from the IT consulting firm …

BlueData adds support for Hadoop on Docker containers

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Big Data infrastructure firm BlueData Software Inc. has said it’s adding support for Docker containers on its BlueData EPIC platform. The move means that organizations will be able to deploy popular Big Data tools like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark quickly and …

IBM boosts OpenStack offerings with Blue Box buy

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

IBM is betting on a growing demand for hybrid clouds in the enterprise with its acquisition of Blue Box Group, which specializes in offering OpenStack open-source cloud hosting services. According to IBM, the marriage will help the company to speed up private …

Niara Inc. staves off cyberattacks with new Security Intelligence Solution

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

Cyber attacks are becoming increasingly more sophisticated and covert, which means intruders can remain undetected for weeks and even months at a time. Now, cyber security startup Niara Inc. has emerged from stealth with a Security Intelligence Solution to combat these kinds …

MongoDB zeroes in on the enterprise with new connector, security & GUI upgrades

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY11 YEARS AGO

MongoDB Inc., the company that’s trying to commercialize the MongoDB database, yesterday revealed the developer edition of its software has been downloaded more than 10 million times. What’s more, over 300,000 people have taken education classes in MongoDB, and the company boasts …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Teradata adopts Presto for Hadoop SQL queries

Microsoft opens first Transparency Center in Europe

Cockroach Labs gets $6.25M to build a more resilient database

Get ready for The Machine: HP to unveil prototype next year

Report: Almost 30% of physical servers sitting idle in data centers

BlueData adds support for Hadoop on Docker containers

Niara Inc. staves off cyberattacks with new Security Intelligence Solution

MongoDB zeroes in on the enterprise with new connector, security & GUI upgrades

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