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

Atlassian announces new cloud product pricing plans

Enterprise productivity software provider Atlassian Corp. Plc. today announced some major changes that are designed to tempt more of its customers to adopt the cloud versions of its products. The company is announcing a major revamp of its product plans. That includes the introduction of new “premium” cloud-based versions of each of its tools, free versions ...

Google’s AI Hub gets more sharing and collaboration tools

Google LLC is making some improvements to its AI Hub, adding a revamped homepage and more collaboration tools for data scientists and artificial intelligence teams. Launched in beta in April, AI Hub is a cloud-hosted repository of plug-and-play AI components that can be used to create various types of AI models. The components include end-to-end AI pipelines ...

Amazon slashes file storage costs on AWS EFS Infrequent Access

Amazon Web Services Inc. today made what it says is one of the largest price reductions in its history, cutting the cost of its Amazon Elastic File System service by as much as 92% for some customers. Under the new pricing plan, customers can store and access files natively in a file system for just ...

MongoDB beats expectations with strong earnings

Database company MongoDB Inc. beat expectations today for its second-quarter financial results. The company, which sells a document-oriented database of the same name that’s used to power big data applications and other intensive workloads, reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 26 cents per share on revenue of $99.4 million. That ...

Cloudera plans to acquire Arcadia Data to add more analytics tools

Big-data company Cloudera Inc. said today it’s planning to acquire Arcadia Data Inc. to add more analytics tools to its platform, shortly after posting second-quarter earnings that easily topped expectations. Arcadia Data sells a business intelligence platform that uses visualizations to make data analysis easier to understand. The platform works directly on unstructured and semistructured ...

Slack stock plunges on bigger-than-expected loss forecast

Updated: Slack Technologies Inc. easily beat earnings expectations for its first quarter since going public, but its guidance for the next quarter and full year came in lighter than expected, causing its stock to plunge more than 13% in after-hours trading. Update: Shares were down only 4% in Thursday trading, on a day when the overall market ...

Containous debuts Maesh, an open-source service mesh for microservices

Cloud-native networking company Containous SAS is open-sourcing a new service mesh that makes it easier for the separate parts of Kubernetes applications to communicate. Containous is the company behind Traefik, a popular cloud-native edge router that automates traffic management over both Kubernetes and Docker Swarm container orchestration environments. Maesh is its latest creation. It’s a ...

ServiceNow adds mobile capabilities to its workflow platform

Cloud automation company ServiceNow Inc. today updated its workflow platform with new mobile capabilities that make it easier for employees to perform a wide range of work-related tasks on the go. ServiceNow’s Now Platform is used to streamline company workflows across a range of separate information technology systems, integrating them in a single platform. The ...

Huawei rages at US government over ‘illegal action’ and ’employee harassment’

China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. today launched a blistering verbal attack on the U.S. government, accusing officials of taking “illegal action” against both it and its employees. Huawei’s diatribe came via an official Twitter account, where it claimed the U.S. government is “trying to disrupt Huawei’s operations with every tool at its disposal.” The company’s tweets ...

Coupa Software reports record quarterly revenue and its stock jumps

Payments management software company Coupa Software Inc. is riding high today after smashing expectations on its second-quarter earnings. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 7 cents per share on record revenue of $95 million, up 54% from a year ago. Wall Street had been expecting Coupa to report a loss ...