Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Apple enrages open-source community with FoundationDB shutdown

By Mike Wheatley Mar 26, 2015

Apple has caused a bit of a ruckus in the open-source community with its acquisition of FoundationDB, a company that leads the development of the highly specialized, speedy and durable NoSQL database that bears…

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NoSQL market frames larger debate: Can open source be profitable?

By Mike Wheatley Mar 19, 2015

Open source software is accelerating innovation in technology like never before. Over the last decade, non-proprietary, community-developed software has been adopted into virtually every aspect of computing, becoming the foundation for everything from Big…

U.S. government bids to make HTTPS standard on all .gov websites

By Mike Wheatley Mar 19, 2015

The United State’s newly appointed CIO – ex VMware Inc. man Tony Scott – has launched a new initiative aimed at making HTTPS the standard protocol for all .gov websites. HTTPS stands for Hypertext…

Darktrace bags $18M to expand security analytics reach

By Mike Wheatley Mar 19, 2015

UK network security startup Darktrace has just raised $18 million from investors from Invoke Capital, Talis Capital and Hoxton Ventures, in a round that takes its valuation to some $80 million, according to the…

Microsoft updates Azure cloud & Windows 10 for the Internet of Things

By Mike Wheatley Mar 17, 2015

Microsoft has just its biggest play yet to stay relevant in the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market, announcing a new highly customisable cloud-based service for its Azure platform. The new Microsoft Azure IoT…

The Walking Dead? Flawed data shows over 6.5 million Americans are aged 112

By Mike Wheatley Mar 17, 2015

People might be living longer, but not this long. Flawed data from the U.S. Social Security Administration shows that over 6.5 million American citizens have reached the ripe old age of 112. Of course,…

U.S Military drops $1.6B VMware contract after protests

By Mike Wheatley Mar 17, 2015

The Defence Information Security Agency (DISA) reversed a decision to award VMware Inc. with a $1.6 billion contract, following a protest by number of tech companies last February. The Pentagon’s decision to cancel its…

Microsoft previews Office 2016 & Skype for Business

By Mike Wheatley Mar 16, 2015

Microsoft rolled out a couple of new software previews this morning, including the first look at Office 2016 for Windows, and a technical preview of its Skype for Business client, which basically blends the…

Fujitsu offers up cool liquid answer to smartphone overheating

By Mike Wheatley Mar 16, 2015

Japanese tech giant Fujitsu Ltd. has hit upon a novel way to cool down smartphones that it says is five times as effective as metal and graphite sheets. As most smartphone users will appreciate,…

Apache Tajo’s Big Data warehouse comes to Hadoop

By Mike Wheatley Mar 11, 2015

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has just announced the relatively unknown Apache Tajo open source data warehouse software is ready for commercial use, almost two years after it first became a top-level project, and…

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Apple enrages open-source community with FoundationDB shutdown

NoSQL market frames larger debate: Can open source be profitable?

U.S. government bids to make HTTPS standard on all .gov websites

Darktrace bags $18M to expand security analytics reach

Microsoft updates Azure cloud & Windows 10 for the Internet of Things

U.S Military drops $1.6B VMware contract after protests

Microsoft previews Office 2016 & Skype for Business

Fujitsu offers up cool liquid answer to smartphone overheating

Apache Tajo’s Big Data warehouse comes to Hadoop

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