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

Adblock vows to defend users from Facebook’s new Atlas tracking tech

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Adblock has just thrown a wrench into Facebook’s bid for world ad-domination with the launch of its revamped Atlas people-tracking system. Atlas was quietly re-launched earlier this week, and not surprisingly the system didn’t go over well with privacy advocates, who dislike …

VMware’s vSphere 6.0 release candidate is ready for testing

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Last month’s VMWorld show in San Francisco was notable for the lack of upgrades to VMware Inc.’s core vSphere virtualization platform. While a new beta version was announced, VMware didn’t say which version was being tested and the news barley received any …

Pica8 grabs $12.5M funding to show its software is key to SDN

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Software-defined networking (SDN) startup Pica8 Inc. has just announced a $12.5 million funding round led by VantagePoint Capital Partners, Cross Head and Pacific Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to more than $20 million. Steve Garrison, Vice President of Marketing at Pica8, …

StackEngine wants to help organize your Docker containers

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Docker containers are one of the most hyped-up technologies of the last few years, but there’s still a long way to go before containers fulfill their potential of supplanting traditional virtualization. The key to moving Docker along is deployment, management and orchestration tools, says …

Open Data’s dirty secret: poor quality and potential for abuse

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

This week the government released data on more than 4.4 million medical payment records in line with its Open Payments initiative, and it’s already come in for some strong criticism from the media. It’s a reminder that open data, while free, is …

Oracle makes a splash in the all-flash party with its FS1-2 arrays

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. has burst back into the SAN storage scene with the launch of its new Oracle FS1-2 Flash Storage System, which is “like no other array on the market”, writes Wikibon analyst David Floyer in his latest professional alert. According to …

Reddit gets $50m funding, plans new cryptocurrency to share the wealth

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Self-styled ‘front page of the Internet’ site Reddit.com is flush with case all of a sudden, after confirimg a new $50 million funding round. It’s a bucket-load of cash to be sure, but what’s more interesting is that the site is promising …

AMD shows off Hadoop running on an ARM-based server

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) believes that ARM processor architecture will be the future of the data center, and says that servers running on 64-bit ARMv8 chips could be here sooner than you think. Putting its money where its mouth is, AMD’s …

FireChat: Off-the-grid messaging app fuels Hong Kong’s protests

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Sites like Twitter and Facebook hit the headlines for their role in the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, and now pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have discovered a new kind of mobile service to help them organize their own rallies. Called FireChat, …

Oracle’s new Sparc M7 chip delivers ‘ten times faster’ performance boost

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp’s overarching message at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld event might be all about the cloud, but that doesn’t mean it’s keeping quiet in its hardware business. During his OpenWorld keynote on Sunday night, Oracle’s undisputed leader Larry Ellison revealed the company …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Adblock vows to defend users from Facebook’s new Atlas tracking tech

VMware’s vSphere 6.0 release candidate is ready for testing

Pica8 grabs $12.5M funding to show its software is key to SDN

StackEngine wants to help organize your Docker containers

Open Data’s dirty secret: poor quality and potential for abuse

Oracle makes a splash in the all-flash party with its FS1-2 arrays

Reddit gets $50m funding, plans new cryptocurrency to share the wealth

AMD shows off Hadoop running on an ARM-based server

FireChat: Off-the-grid messaging app fuels Hong Kong’s protests

Oracle’s new Sparc M7 chip delivers ‘ten times faster’ performance boost

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