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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

Salesforce under attack: Dyre malware slurping CRM data

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Salesforce.com is warning that malicious types are trying to attack customers with a remote access Trojan called Dyre that’s designed to slurp user’s login credentials. The company has just issued an alert which states: “On September 3, 2014, one of our security …

Networked storage is getting old: Revenues slump again

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

The market for networked storage arrays is still in decline, with revenues falling for the second quarter in a row, according to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), which has just release its Q2 2014 quarter storage tracker, which looks at both …

CenturyLink targets Rackspace in rumored acquisition bid

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting Inc. is reported to be the subject of a takeover bid by the telecommunications firm CenturyLink Inc. The eyebrow-raising news was reported by Bloomberg over the weekend, which said the two firms had “discussed the idea” sometime …

Denstu razorfish jumps on MapR’s Hadoop

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Hadoop vendor MapR Technologies Inc., has just grabbed a major new customer in the form of Dentsu razorfish, which is a joint venture between advertising giant Dentsu Inc., and digital agency razorfish. Dentsu razorfish said it’ll be using MapR’s Hadoop to power …

Microsoft: There’s no point using a ‘hard’ password

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Celebrities desperately trying to protect themselves against nude photo leaks by ‘hardening’ their passwords are probably wasting their time, according to a new report from Microsoft’s research mavericks. Writing in a paper titled An Administrator’s Guide to Internet Password Research [PDF], Microsoft’s …

DataStax gunning for Oracle after $106M funding round

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Apache Cassandra database firm DataStax Inc. has just raised $106 million in a series E funding round led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers (KPCB). The company now has a valuation of around $830 million, and has attracted total funding of over …

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