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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

The PC is evolving, not disappearing, analysts say

WIKIBON By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

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) and Gartner Inc. released numbers showing only a …

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

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

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 assortment of analysts and industry experts who’ve tried …

Cloud price wars: How low can they go?

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Microsoft have been waging a price war in cloud compute, network, and storage services that has taken on drumbeat predictability. You can safely bet that when one drops prices, the others will follow in lock step. The …

Google publishes unpatched vulnerability in Windows 8.1

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Google has made Microsoft look a bit foolish after publishing details of a vulnerability it discovered in Windows 8.1 that allows attackers to gain system administrator privileges. Google didn’t hesitate to release the vulnerability, as well as the code needed to exploit …

Verizon Cloud customers brace themselves for two-day outage

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Verizon has admitted its cloud services will go offline for as long as 48 hours next weekend, during which time all virtual machines hosted there will be unavailable. Verizon’s Cloud Client Care page neglects to mention the scheduled updates, which are supposedly …

Hortonworks adds new Hadoop certifications for partners

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Riding on the early success of its IPO, open-source Hadoop heavyweight Hortonworks Inc. has announced it’s extending its partner developer certification program, adding certifications in operations, security and governance for partners that develop software around its platform. Palo Alto-based Hortonworks says the …

Cybercriminals exploit AirAsia tragedy with malicious links

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Cybercriminals have latched on to the AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ 8501 tragedy, taking advantage of people’s curiosity to lure them into clicking on malicious links in an attempt to steal their personal information. AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ 8501 lost contact with air …

China blocks access to Google’s Gmail service again

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

China’s Internet censors have been busy over the Christmas weekend, with reports suggesting the country has blocked access to Google’s Gmail service since December 26. Web traffic research outfit Dyn Research said that Gmail’s traffic is being blocked at the IP source, …

Is Hadoop over-hyped? Market-watchers say no

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

When an organization wants to dig into its Big Data these days, it’s almost inevitable that Hadoop, the open-source data storage and processing framework for dealing with extremely large data sets, will get the call. It’s easy to see why Hadoop is …

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