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

OpenStack survey: Ubuntu OS stays on top

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Despite the lack of widespread adoption, OpenStack has become one of the major battlegrounds among IT’s biggest players – with the likes of Red Hat, CentOS and HP all betting big on the open-source architecture overwhelming IT sooner rather than later. So …

IoT will THRIVE by 2025, but not everyone’s looking forward to it

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

The “Internet of Things” is one of the hottest trends in tech right now, but is it really set to go the distance? And if so, what kinds of effects will it have on our lives in years to come? Those were …

Not even Tor can protect you from the all-seeing eyes of the NSA

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

So you thought you were safe from prying eyes thanks to the Tor network? Well, think again. According to Andy Malone, head of Microsoft’s Enterprise Security, Tor doesn’t provide anything like the kind of anonymity it’s supposed to, and can be compromised …

Google wants to translate the real world

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Google has taken a giant step forward in its quest to bring translation into the real world, following its acquisition of Quest Visual, makers of the ‘Word Lens’ app, for an undisclosed sum. Word Lens is a smartphone app that’s designed to …

Red Hat’s vision for OpenStack could lead to a new era of vendor lock-in

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Red Hat potentially opened a new front in the long-running “cloud wars” this week, and one that could have massive implications for customers down the road. Rumor has it that Red Hat is about to start ‘strong-arming’ companies into using its own, …

FSF slams Mozilla’s ‘shocking’ DRM capitulation

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Mozilla has come in for some harsh criticism from the Free Software Foundation, following its controversial decision to support Digital Rights Management (DRM) in its Firefox browser. The FSF has published an open letter condemning the move, saying it’s “deeply disappointed” by …

Adobe screws up again with 24-hour Creative Cloud outage

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Yesterday was a bit of a disaster for Adobe, as the company’s online services fell victim to a global outage lasting more than 24 hours. Adobe first admitted that its customers were locked out of it’s Creative Cloud suite via a tweet …

Red Hat denies using ‘strongarm tactics’ on OpenStack

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Red Hat has come out in denial of a report from the Wall Street Journal that it refuses to support users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux who also run non-Red Hat versions of OpenStack. The company said in a blog post that …

Acxiom gets into Big Data ‘onboarding’ = cue more targeted ads

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Internet users are about to see even more targeted ads that seem to know all about the products and services they might be interested in. That’s because Big Data services giant Acxion has just snapped up LiveRamp for a cool $310 million. …

Mozilla bows to DRM demands so we can still watch Netflix

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Mozilla has somewhat belatedly announced it’s going to add Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to its Firefox browser to facilitate Digital Rights Management (DRM), even though the technology goes against its principle of a free and open Internet. The decision was taken because …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

OpenStack survey: Ubuntu OS stays on top

IoT will THRIVE by 2025, but not everyone’s looking forward to it

Not even Tor can protect you from the all-seeing eyes of the NSA

Google wants to translate the real world

Red Hat’s vision for OpenStack could lead to a new era of vendor lock-in

FSF slams Mozilla’s ‘shocking’ DRM capitulation

Adobe screws up again with 24-hour Creative Cloud outage

Red Hat denies using ‘strongarm tactics’ on OpenStack

Acxiom gets into Big Data ‘onboarding’ = cue more targeted ads

Mozilla bows to DRM demands so we can still watch Netflix

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