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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

Amazon offers new low-cost cloud instances with burst option

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

System admins looking to run smaller workloads at lower cost might be interested in a new, cheaper Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance now being offered by Amazon Web Services. It’s claimed to provide a temporary boost to compute performance when required. AWS …

You might be ready for IoT, but your network isn’t

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Enterprises are willing to embrace the Internet of Things, but deployment is being held back by network capacity worries and security concerns, according to a new survey from Infoblox. While most IT professionals believe there’s a potentially lucrative market in IoT, the …

CoreOS takes the fight to Red Hat with Managed Linux

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

CoreOS, one of the youngest new distros in the Linux family that relies on Docker containers to manage both the system and applications, has announced $8 million in series A funding. At the same time, it’s also launched a new subscription version …

Gartner predicts IT spending to grow, but only just

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Enterprises are spending a less than anticipated amount of money on IT, according to the latest tidbit from Gartner. The analyst firm blames price pressure due to increased competition, a lack of product differentiation, and widespread availability of viable alternatives as the …

Google targets ‘the next billion’ with Android One

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

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 market share even further. While smartphones are fairly …

Instagram moves 20 billion images to Facebook servers

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

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 undertaken. News of the move came from this …

NSA’s first transparency report as clear as mud

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

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 definition of the word “transparency” makes it somewhat …

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