Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

North Korea kicked entirely offline in apparent Sony hack retaliation

By Mike Wheatley Dec 23, 2014

If you play with fire, expect to get burned. That’s a lesson that North Korea has learned the hard way after suddenly finding itself wiped off the face of the Internet, following an outage…

South Korean nuclear plant breached by unknown hackers

By Mike Wheatley Dec 23, 2014

North Korea’s ongoing cyberwar with Sony Pictures and the US might be stealing most of the headlines this Christmas, but that hasn’t spared its near-neighbor South Korea from a hacking scandal of its own.…

GitHub urges developers to patch critical Git client bug

By Mike Wheatley Dec 19, 2014

GitHub has revealed the existence of a flaw in its client software, and is recommending users upgrade to a new version as soon as possible. The vulnerability first announced at GMANE, and it was…

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Microsoft admits “human error” led to last month’s Azure outage

By Mike Wheatley Dec 19, 2014

Microsoft has just published a blow-by-blow account of what went wrong during last month’s Azure cloud storage service outage, which caused thousands of websites, including its own Windows Store and MSN.com, to go offline.…

Open Garden nets $10.8M to expand mesh-networking FireChat app

By Mike Wheatley Dec 19, 2014

Open Garden, the company behind the offline messaging app FireChat that doesn’t need a mobile network, has just announced a fresh funding round of $10.8 million to boost its growth in emerging markets. The…

Teradata gobbles up Hadoop-happy data cruncher RainStor

By Mike Wheatley Dec 18, 2014

Data cruncher Teradata Corp., which has slowly but surely been expanding its Big Data analytics capabilities, has just snapped up RainStor Inc., maker of a data archiving application that sits on top of Hadoop.…

US-Cuba detente presents opportunity for Internet freedoms

By Mike Wheatley Dec 18, 2014

Cuba remains one of the last nations on Earth where Internet access remains, for the majority of its people, a forbidden fruit. According to the watchdog group Freedom House, barely five percent of Cuba’s…

The rise of automation: Opportunity or a disaster in the making?

By Mike Wheatley Dec 17, 2014

The idea that technology will eventually do away with the need for manual, human labor is nothing new. Ever since the first enterprising farmers began using cattle to plough their fields instead of doing…

Canonical’s “Snappy” Ubuntu Core bites into Google’s Cloud

By Mike Wheatley Dec 17, 2014

Canonical Ltd., the maker of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has just made its snappy Ubuntu Core operating system, designed for running Docker containers, available on Google’s Compute Engine. Ubuntu Core is a newly released,…

MongoDB acquires WiredTiger to boost storage engine performance

By Mike Wheatley Dec 17, 2014

NoSQL database giant MongoDB Inc. has moved to acquire WiredTiger Inc., which builds a database storage engine solution, barely a month after including the technology as an option in the latest version of its…

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North Korea kicked entirely offline in apparent Sony hack retaliation

South Korean nuclear plant breached by unknown hackers

GitHub urges developers to patch critical Git client bug

Microsoft admits “human error” led to last month’s Azure outage

Open Garden nets $10.8M to expand mesh-networking FireChat app

Teradata gobbles up Hadoop-happy data cruncher RainStor

US-Cuba detente presents opportunity for Internet freedoms

The rise of automation: Opportunity or a disaster in the making?

Canonical’s “Snappy” Ubuntu Core bites into Google’s Cloud

MongoDB acquires WiredTiger to boost storage engine performance

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