Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Rackspace declares it’s NOT for sale following lowball offers

By Mike Wheatley Sep 17, 2014

Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Hosting Inc. has announced it’s no longer planning to sell itself or merge with another company after it failed to receive any offers ‘worthy’ enough. Rackspace announced it was considering “inbound…

IBM ranked as top dog in software-defined storage platforms niche

By Mike Wheatley Sep 16, 2014

IDC has just published its second quarter 2014 Worldwide Storage Software Qview survey, ranking IBM as the world’s top supplier of Software-defined Storage Platforms (SDS-P). SDS-P is described as ”a new functional market added…

Reports say EMC XtremIO firmware 3.0 upgrade wipes out flash data

By Mike Wheatley Sep 16, 2014

EMC is under fire over reports that upgrading to the as-yet-unreleased version 3.0 of its XtremIO subsystem deletes all data from the flash array, and that users need to back up everything first. The…

Comcast: “We haven’t banned Tor, in fact we use it too”

By Mike Wheatley Sep 16, 2014

Comcast yesterday denied allegations it’s threatening to cut off customers who use the anonymous Tor web browser. Jason Livingood, VP of internet & communications engineering at Comcast, penned a blog post which insisted, “Comcast is…

Gartner: Flash array startups ranked ahead of EMC, HP and IBM

By Mike Wheatley Sep 15, 2014

Gartner Inc. has ranked three upstarts ahead of the likes of EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Company and IBM in its latest solid-state appliance critical capabilities report: namely, Kaminario, Pure Storage and SolidFire Inc. Gartner’s latest…

Google’s offering a cool $100,000 for startups to use its cloud

By Mike Wheatley Sep 15, 2014

Google Inc. is seeking to temp entrepreunerial startups with a cool $100,000 in credit so long as they power their apps using its cloud platform rather than their rivals. The new program is called…

The ‘Cosmos’ browser wants to surf the web via SMS messages

By Mike Wheatley Sep 15, 2014

A new project has emerged that’s hoping to deliver Internet access to the developing world via text messages (SMSs) alone. The idea probably sounds a little absurd to those of us in the developed…

The exClone Project: Now even you can become immortal

By Mike Wheatley Sep 12, 2014

“There is no such thing as death. People die only if we forget.” Immortality has long been a dream of humankind; even since before Juan Ponce de Leon sought the legendary “Fountain of Youth,” the…

HP gobbles up Eucalyptus to strengthen cloud biz

By Mike Wheatley Sep 12, 2014

In a shock announcement this morning Hewlett-Packard Company has revealed it’s buying up Eucalyptus, the open-source hybrid cloud software maker that’s been such a hit with customers of Amazon Web Services. HP has acquired…

EMC denies it’s planning to sell off VMware

By Mike Wheatley Sep 12, 2014

EMC Corp. has reportedly denied that it plans to offload its stake in VMware Inc., just hours after rumors of an impending sale re-emerged via the New York Post. Whispers of this news have…

Mike Wheatley

Rackspace declares it’s NOT for sale following lowball offers

IBM ranked as top dog in software-defined storage platforms niche

Reports say EMC XtremIO firmware 3.0 upgrade wipes out flash data

Comcast: “We haven’t banned Tor, in fact we use it too”

Gartner: Flash array startups ranked ahead of EMC, HP and IBM

The ‘Cosmos’ browser wants to surf the web via SMS messages

The exClone Project: Now even you can become immortal

HP gobbles up Eucalyptus to strengthen cloud biz

EMC denies it’s planning to sell off VMware

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