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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

HP takes on supercomputer giants with water-cooled Apollo system

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

HP has just entered the supercomputer game, offering an eco-friendly way for enterprises to access petaflops of computing power. Announced just before the opening of its HP Discover event in Las Vegas, the company unveiled two new servers designed for high-performance computing …

Watch out pervs: Ransomware holds Android phones hostage

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Bad guys have cooked up the first strain of file-encrypting ransomware targeted at smartphones running Android. Called Android/Simplocker, the malware was spotted by the security firm ESET. Researchers say it works by scanning Android phone’s SD cards looking for certain types of …

Storage market tanks as firms shun high-end hardware

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Late last week IDC announced one of the worst ever quarters for the storage sector, as enterprise buyers shunned high-end systems. IDC blamed the slump on a 25 percent drop in purchases of high-performance and resilient storage systems like IBM’s DS8000, EMC’s …

Gartner: Big Data security should start with the data

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

One of the central requirements of Big Data is that you take a data-centric approach to cybersecurity. Well, that seems obvious enough – if your vital data is stored in huge repositories, it makes sense to secure said repositories – but apparently …

Oracle lights up open SDN, joins OpenDaylight Project

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Oracle has said it’s joining the OpenDaylight Project, an open-source software-defined networking alliance, as a silver member. The company says it wants to bake OpenDaylight’s software into its Solaris 11.2 as soon as possible. When it does so, customers will be able …

VMware kills off vCenter Heartbeat

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

VMware has somewhat interestingly announced the end of availability of its vCenter Heartbeat product, which is designed to protect vCenter Server against application, operating system, hardware and network failures, and other kinds of outages. The news is somewhat unexpected, and will leave …

IBM-Lenovo x86 server deal delayed due to security fears

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY12 YEARS AGO

Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business could be on the rocks after the two companies asked US regulators for more time to carry out a security review. The companies are said to want an extension to ensure they’ll gain the necessary …

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