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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

AWS blazes ahead in cloud IaaS, but Microsoft’s catching up

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Amazon’s cloud dominance has been recognized by analyst kings Gartner in a new “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service” report, which was published late yesterday. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report offers a detailed look at the marketplace, and goes some way …

FTC calls for crackdown on ‘big’ data brokers

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Consumers have little understanding of how so-called ‘data brokers’ are collecting and sharing information on their web browsing and personal habits, says a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report. “This is an industry that largely operates in the dark,” said FTC Chairwoman …

Outlook.com for Android leaves user data exposed

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Microsoft’s Outlook.com for Android is failing to adequately protect user’s data, according to a security firm which found the app doesn’t encrypt emails stored on the device. The claim is made by research firm Include Security, which says that Outlook.com’s email messages …

DARPA using Oculus Rift to open a new front in cyberwarfare

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

A report in Wired says the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is attempting to ‘weaponize’ Oculus Rift, the futuristic virtual reality headgear that Facebook recently acquired for an astonishing $2 billion. DARPA is apparently trying to weaponize Oculus Rift for cyberwarfare …

IBM’s 2015 roadmap following a very uncertain path

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

One of the biggest stories last week was Cisco CEO John Chambers’ bold prediction of a dramatically changing IT landscape in the next few years. Speaking during his keynote address at the company’s annual summit, Chambers warned of a dire future for …

IBM gets ready to ditch NetApp for its own storage gear

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

IBM is about to end its partnership with NetApp in favor of selling its own gear, according to a report in Bloomberg this weekend. Citing “an internal memo”, Bloomberg says that Big Blue will quit reselling NetApp’s N-series network attached storage devices …

CoreOS lands inside Google’s Compute Engine

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Google has just moved to make the lightweight Linux operating system CoreOS available on its main cloud platform, the Google Compute Engine. CoreOS is a relatively new operating system that’s designed to run on massive clusters of computers. The OS takes up …

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