Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Lookout report: Mobile threats loom large over the enterprise

By Mike Wheatley Jan 15, 2015

Mobile malware targeted at the enterprise is becoming increasingly sophisticated, according to security firm Lookout Inc.’s latest mobile threats report. The paper, titled Enterprise Mobile Threats 2014: A Year In Review, warns that attackers…

DigitalOcean adds FreeBSD OS to its cloudy mix

By Mike Wheatley Jan 15, 2015

Cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean has added the option to run the FreeBSD operating system in its cloud, and is also considering throwing Windows Server into the mix at a later date. The availability of…

BlackBerry is poised to make a stunning comeback in 2015

By Mike Wheatley Jan 15, 2015

It wasn’t long ago that BlackBerry was considered to be a major player in the smartphone race, owning a big slice of the consumer market and competing with both Apple and Google. What followed…

Basho grabs $25M funding round to beef up Riak NoSQL database

By Mike Wheatley Jan 13, 2015

Basho Technologies Inc., the creator of the Riak NoSQL database and Riak CS cloud-storage system, announced a $25 million series G round of funding led by Georgetown Partners, taking the total amount of investment…

EMC & Elliott Management call truce over VMware spin-off

By Mike Wheatley Jan 13, 2015

Activist investor firm Elliott Management has called a truce in its campaign to break up IT giant EMC’s Federation of companys, agreeing to a nine-month standstill in exchange for getting two of its representatives…

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Should Microsoft give Windows 10 away for free? It may not have a choice

By Mike Wheatley Jan 12, 2015

Microsoft has a lot of big decisions to make in 2015, but perhaps few will be more closely watched than its pricing strategy for the upcoming Windows 10. We’ll likely learn more about Microsoft’s…

Microsoft beefs up Azure with G-Series VMs, Docker & Key Vault

By Mike Wheatley Jan 12, 2015

As far as virtual machines in the public cloud go, bigger is better. At least that’s what Microsoft seems to believe in any case, if its new Azure G-Series VMs are anything to go…

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The PC is evolving, not disappearing, analysts say

By Mike Wheatley Jan 9, 2015

The PC market has gone through a long and tortuous decline over the last few years, but there may be light at the end of the tunnel. Late last year, Ithenternational Data Corp. (IDC)…

Will this be the year of Hadoop? 6 predictions for 2015

By Mike Wheatley Jan 8, 2015

With the New Year finally upon us it seems as good a time as any to ask where Hadoop, the open-source Big Data framework, will be heading in 2015. SiliconANGLE pulled forecasts from an…

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Customers, not shareholders, need to drive Microsoft comeback, observers say

By Mike Wheatley Jan 6, 2015

After years of declining PC sales, its failure to make an impact in mobile computing and the increasingly aggressive encroachment onto its turf by arch-rivals Apple and Google, things are finally looking up for…

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Lookout report: Mobile threats loom large over the enterprise

DigitalOcean adds FreeBSD OS to its cloudy mix

BlackBerry is poised to make a stunning comeback in 2015

Basho grabs $25M funding round to beef up Riak NoSQL database

EMC & Elliott Management call truce over VMware spin-off

Should Microsoft give Windows 10 away for free? It may not have a choice

Microsoft beefs up Azure with G-Series VMs, Docker & Key Vault

The PC is evolving, not disappearing, analysts say

Will this be the year of Hadoop? 6 predictions for 2015

Customers, not shareholders, need to drive Microsoft comeback, observers say

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