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

BlackBerry is poised to make a stunning comeback in 2015

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

It wasn’t long ago that BlackBerry was considered to be a major player in the smartphone race, owning a big slice of the consumer market and competing with both Apple and Google. What followed was a spectacular fall from grace as the …

Basho grabs $25M funding round to beef up Riak NoSQL database

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Basho Technologies Inc., the creator of the Riak NoSQL database and Riak CS cloud-storage system, announced a $25 million series G round of funding led by Georgetown Partners, taking the total amount of investment it’s raised to almost $60 million since its …

EMC & Elliott Management call truce over VMware spin-off

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Activist investor firm Elliott Management has called a truce in its campaign to break up IT giant EMC’s Federation of companys, agreeing to a nine-month standstill in exchange for getting two of its representatives onto the company’s board of directors. As of …

Should Microsoft give Windows 10 away for free? It may not have a choice

WIKIBON By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has a lot of big decisions to make in 2015, but perhaps few will be more closely watched than its pricing strategy for the upcoming Windows 10. We’ll likely learn more about Microsoft’s intentions as early as next week. Executives are …

Microsoft beefs up Azure with G-Series VMs, Docker & Key Vault

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

As far as virtual machines in the public cloud go, bigger is better. At least that’s what Microsoft seems to believe in any case, if its new Azure G-Series VMs are anything to go by. Rolled out on Thursday, the G-Series packs …

The PC is evolving, not disappearing, analysts say

WIKIBON By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

The PC market has gone through a long and tortuous decline over the last few years, but there may be light at the end of the tunnel. Late last year, Ithenternational Data Corp. (IDC) and Gartner Inc. released numbers showing only a …

Will this be the year of Hadoop? 6 predictions for 2015

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

With the New Year finally upon us it seems as good a time as any to ask where Hadoop, the open-source Big Data framework, will be heading in 2015. SiliconANGLE pulled forecasts from an assortment of analysts and industry experts who’ve tried …

Customers, not shareholders, need to drive Microsoft comeback, observers say

WIKIBON By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

After years of declining PC sales, its failure to make an impact in mobile computing and the increasingly aggressive encroachment onto its turf by arch-rivals Apple and Google, things are finally looking up for Microsoft. New CEO Satya Nadella has just presided …

Google publishes unpatched vulnerability in Windows 8.1

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Google has made Microsoft look a bit foolish after publishing details of a vulnerability it discovered in Windows 8.1 that allows attackers to gain system administrator privileges. Google didn’t hesitate to release the vulnerability, as well as the code needed to exploit …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

BlackBerry is poised to make a stunning comeback in 2015

Basho grabs $25M funding round to beef up Riak NoSQL database

EMC & Elliott Management call truce over VMware spin-off

Should Microsoft give Windows 10 away for free? It may not have a choice

Microsoft beefs up Azure with G-Series VMs, Docker & Key Vault

The PC is evolving, not disappearing, analysts say

Will this be the year of Hadoop? 6 predictions for 2015

Customers, not shareholders, need to drive Microsoft comeback, observers say

Google publishes unpatched vulnerability in Windows 8.1

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