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

GitHub urges developers to patch critical Git client bug

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

GitHub has revealed the existence of a flaw in its client software, and is recommending users upgrade to a new version as soon as possible. The vulnerability first announced at GMANE, and it was later confirmed by GitHub itself, which simultaneously issued …

Microsoft admits “human error” led to last month’s Azure outage

WIKIBON By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has just published a blow-by-blow account of what went wrong during last month’s Azure cloud storage service outage, which caused thousands of websites, including its own Windows Store and MSN.com, to go offline. The Microsoft Azure service interruption on Nov. 18 …

Open Garden nets $10.8M to expand mesh-networking FireChat app

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Open Garden, the company behind the offline messaging app FireChat that doesn’t need a mobile network, has just announced a fresh funding round of $10.8 million to boost its growth in emerging markets. The FireChat app was only released this year, but …

Teradata gobbles up Hadoop-happy data cruncher RainStor

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Data cruncher Teradata Corp., which has slowly but surely been expanding its Big Data analytics capabilities, has just snapped up RainStor Inc., maker of a data archiving application that sits on top of Hadoop. The deal was completed for an undisclosed sum, …

US-Cuba detente presents opportunity for Internet freedoms

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Cuba remains one of the last nations on Earth where Internet access remains, for the majority of its people, a forbidden fruit. According to the watchdog group Freedom House, barely five percent of Cuba’s citizens enjoy unrestricted access to the Web. But …

The rise of automation: Opportunity or a disaster in the making?

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

The idea that technology will eventually do away with the need for manual, human labor is nothing new. Ever since the first enterprising farmers began using cattle to plough their fields instead of doing the job manually, workers have been fearful of …

Canonical’s “Snappy” Ubuntu Core bites into Google’s Cloud

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Canonical Ltd., the maker of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has just made its snappy Ubuntu Core operating system, designed for running Docker containers, available on Google’s Compute Engine. Ubuntu Core is a newly released, stripped down version of the original Ubuntu OS. …

MongoDB acquires WiredTiger to boost storage engine performance

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

NoSQL database giant MongoDB Inc. has moved to acquire WiredTiger Inc., which builds a database storage engine solution, barely a month after including the technology as an option in the latest version of its product. It’s an important buy for MongoDB, and …

Cloudera establishes China base to head up Hadoop’s next revolution

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Intel-backed Hadoop vendor Cloudera Inc. is hoping to export the Big Data craze to China with the opening of three offices in the country, its just announced. Cloudera already has a small Asian presence thanks to its offices in Japan, but the …

CISO’s influence grows as cloud envelops the enterprise

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

In case you need any more evidence that enterprises no longer see the cloud as a security threat, here it is straight from the horse’s mouth – almost 90 percent of IT security leaders have, or are planning to adopt the cloud …

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Mike Wheatley

Latest from Mike Wheatley

GitHub urges developers to patch critical Git client bug

Microsoft admits “human error” led to last month’s Azure outage

Open Garden nets $10.8M to expand mesh-networking FireChat app

Teradata gobbles up Hadoop-happy data cruncher RainStor

US-Cuba detente presents opportunity for Internet freedoms

The rise of automation: Opportunity or a disaster in the making?

Canonical’s “Snappy” Ubuntu Core bites into Google’s Cloud

MongoDB acquires WiredTiger to boost storage engine performance

Cloudera establishes China base to head up Hadoop’s next revolution

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