Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
Acxiom gets into Big Data ‘onboarding’ = cue more targeted ads
Internet users are about to see even more targeted ads that seem to know all about the products and services they might be interested in. That’s because Big Data services giant Acxion has just snapped up LiveRamp for a cool $310 million. LiveRamp, for those who don’t know, connects the dots between customer data from ...
Mozilla bows to DRM demands so we can still watch Netflix
Mozilla has somewhat belatedly announced it’s going to add Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to its Firefox browser to facilitate Digital Rights Management (DRM), even though the technology goes against its principle of a free and open Internet. The decision was taken because the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently caved in to pressure from companies ...
Salesforce rigs up Heroku into its cloud
Quite a few people were scratching their heads when Salesforce.com added Heroku to its list of acquisitions. After all, why on earth would Salesforce with its Force.com SaaS platform feel the need to buy up a PaaS platform like Heroku? Now, it seems we finally have our answer, with the release of a new Heroku ...
Oracle launches OpenStack missile at Red Hat’s cloud party
Oracle has just taken a major shot across the bow of Red Hat, announcing a preview of its own OpenStack build designed to run atop Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Server. This comes following its integration of its Solaris platform with the open-source cloud framework at the end of last month. For now, Oracle’s OpenStack ...
Patch Tuesday signals play time for Windows XP hackers
Those who’re still running Windows XP are about to face a substantially higher level of risk now that Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday since end of support has passed. Yesterday’s update saw several critical vulnerabilities patched in Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, and at least half of them are thought to affect XP, which ...
Don’t be scared of Big Data. Just be careful
Big Data is a pretty frightening concept for some. Companies and organizations collect vast amounts of data on people’s lives, where they live, their habits, their friends, and this can all be stored, accessed and analyzed later on. But that doesn’t mean consumers should be scared, although a degree of caution is definitely advised. At ...
TechEd 2014: Microsoft steps up Azure hybrid cloud push
There’s been a lot of noise coming from the OpenStack Summit 2014 this week, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from betting on some enterprises choosing to move their workloads onto its own proprietary hybrid cloud. And that’s the message it hammered home on the opening day of its own TechED conference in Houston yesterday. In ...
Red Hat drops ManageIQ into the OpenStack mix | #OpenStackSummit
Red Hat was one of the busier participants during day one of the OpenStack Summit 2014 in Atlanta yesterday, rolling out new code it hopes will drive adoption of OpenStack and advance cloud management. The company said it’s willing to contribute its ManageIQ platform to OpenStack, in the hope it can help to govern and ...
IBM unwraps Watson-powered push into software-defined storage
IBM has just lifted the lid off a new software-defined storage product whose technology is partly based on the Watson system used on the “Jeopardy” TV game show. The technology in question was devised in IBM’s research labs, and allowed its Watson supercomputer to process a mind-blowing four terabytes of content (more than 200 million ...
GE beefs up Industrial Internet security with Wurldtech acquisition
The advance of the Internet of Things is inevitable, but question marks remain over just how safe these ‘things’ will be, given the myriad of vulnerabilities in the networks and protocols linking everything together. To combat this threat, industrial giant GE has just acquired the Canadian cybersecurity firm Wurldtech. While the likes of Google prefer ...