Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Google targets ‘the next billion’ with Android One

By Mike Wheatley Jun 30, 2014

Google has launched an initiative designed to make smartphones more affordable to develop and produce. The initiative will target OEMs specifically making phones for developing markets, which could help increase Android’s already dominant consumer…

Instagram moves 20 billion images to Facebook servers

By Mike Wheatley Jun 30, 2014

Instagram announced last week that it’s picked up its billions of images stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and dumped them into Facebook’s own servers in one of the largest data migration operations ever…

NSA’s first transparency report as clear as mud

By Mike Wheatley Jun 30, 2014

The NSA has published its first ever “transparency report”, and surprise, surprise – it’s anything but ‘transparent’. The report supposedly reveals the number of ‘targets’ the agency has spied upon, although the NSA’s confusing…

Gartner: Let’s get ready for ‘digital business,’ especially you security pros

By Mike Wheatley Jun 27, 2014

IT security professionals need to ready themselves for the coming “digital business” revolution and a new breed of security implications that it’s sure to bring, said Gartner analyst Jorge Lopez at the Gartner Security…

Hortonworks lights up Hadoop: Apache Spark declared YARN-ready

By Mike Wheatley Jun 27, 2014

Hortonworks said Apache Spark, a new technology that’s quickly gaining interest for in-memory-accelerated machine learning and other forms of high-volume data analysis, is now enabled to plug into Apache YARN, the resource-management layer introduced…

Couchbase raises $60M as investors double down on NoSQL

By Mike Wheatley Jun 27, 2014

There’s more news on the NoSQL front, with industry leader Couchbase pulling in a healthy $60 million of Silicon Valley cash as it bids to muscle in on the territory of legacy giants like…

Aerospike bids to accelerate growth with new funding, open source plan

By Mike Wheatley Jun 26, 2014

With a fresh new $20 million funding round in its pocket a new distribution strategy built on open source licensing, database startup Aerospike is bidding to become a major player in a market segment…

Google opens Gmail to developers in bid to replace IMAP

By Mike Wheatley Jun 26, 2014

Google has decided to lift the lid on its Gmail service, allowing every man and his dog to write apps that can access your inbox, so long as you agree to let them in.…

DataDirect Networks unveils WOS-Bridge cloud tiering platform

By Mike Wheatley Jun 26, 2014

DataDirect Networks has made adapted its object storage system so it can use both cloud and on-premise storage arrays as object storage vaults. Its revamped Web Object Scaler Bridge platform, abbreviated as WOS-Bridge, can…

Google launches Cloud Dataflow pipeline for batch and stream processing

By Mike Wheatley Jun 26, 2014

There was plenty of excitement at Google I/O yesterday, and not just because of the brief interruption by a protester calling on Google to “develop a conscience”. While much of the spotlight fell on…

Mike Wheatley

Google targets ‘the next billion’ with Android One

Instagram moves 20 billion images to Facebook servers

NSA’s first transparency report as clear as mud

Gartner: Let’s get ready for ‘digital business,’ especially you security pros

Hortonworks lights up Hadoop: Apache Spark declared YARN-ready

Couchbase raises $60M as investors double down on NoSQL

Aerospike bids to accelerate growth with new funding, open source plan

Google opens Gmail to developers in bid to replace IMAP

DataDirect Networks unveils WOS-Bridge cloud tiering platform

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