Robert Hof

Robert Hof is editor in chief of SiliconANGLE. Email: robhof@siliconangle.com

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Despite $5B EU fine, Alphabet smashes earnings forecasts

To no one’s surprise, Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc. today reported that its advertising business continues to roll, but a $5 billion fine recently imposed by the European Union wiped out a large chunk of its net profit. Moreover, Google’s “other revenues” besides advertising, the large majority of which are its cloud computing operations as ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT

Special report: What’s on the horizon for cloud computing

Cloud computing is only a dozen years old, at least in its modern sense, but as software eats the world, there’s little doubt anymore that it’s the blazing center of information technology. Think about it: Sure, you love your iPhone, but it’s a slick little brick without thousands of apps to run on it. And ...

Google opens its cloud marketplace to outside Kubernetes applications

The open-source Kubernetes software has made it possible to automate the management of applications in containers, a way of running software unchanged across different kinds of computers and clouds. But initially deploying apps on clusters of computers running Kubernetes still requires a lot of manual work. That’s what Google LLC is aiming to start fixing ...

Thoma Bravo buys majority stake in security firm Centrify

High-profile cybersecurity firm Centrify Inc. today said the private equity giant Thoma Bravo is acquiring a “significant” majority stake in the company. Thoma Bravo, which has been investing in several cybersecurity firms such as Bomgar and Sailpoint in the last few years and bought security firm Barracuda Networks in November for $1.6 billion, is buying ...

Scale Venture Partners plans to open up its startup-scaling software platform

Armed with $400 million for its latest fund announced today, Scale Venture Partners revealed plans to open up its internal software used to help keep its portfolio cloud startups growing. The Foster City, California-based venture capital firm is showing an early preview of Scale Studio, a software platform it has been using for a couple ...

Diane Bryant leaving as Google Cloud COO after less than a year

In a surprise move, Google Cloud Chief Operating Officer Diane Bryant has left the company after serving only seven months on the job. The departure of Bryant (pictured), first reported by Business Insider, was confirmed by Google LLC today. “We can confirm that Diane Bryant is no longer with Google,” the company said in a statement. “We are ...

Tenable and Opera file for IPOs as Domo goes public after slashing valuation

Initial public offerings of stock by enterprise technology companies keep on coming, with business intelligence startup Domo Inc. going public today as network security firm Tenable Inc. and the browser company Opera Ltd. filed for an offering as well. On the surface, Domo’s offering was a success, as shares jumped 30 percent over their offering ...

Box expands Skills beta with more AI and machine learning technologies

Box Inc. today expanded a beta test program for its Skills software framework that uses machine learning to make video, audio, image and other files more useful on its content management service. Introduced last year, Box Skills opened up the ability to perform tasks on content such as computer vision for image analysis, video indexing ...

Google Cloud goes Hollywood with new region and file services

Google LLC is priming its cloud computing services for a star turn in Hollywood with a new Los Angeles region and storage services announced today. The search giant had already announced it would be opening a region, or physical location, for its Google Cloud Platform in the area, providing faster cloud services with less latency. ...

AI all the way: US supercomputer is now the world’s fastest

There’s a new No. 1 supercomputer in the world, as the United States has captured the lead from China for the first time in more than five years. The Summit supercomputer (pictured), built by IBM Corp. at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, captured the top spot in the twice-a-year list released early Monday ...