Robert Hof, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Google doubles down on hybrid computing with Cloud Services Platform beta

By Robert Hof Feb 20, 2019

Hoping to wrest some cloud computing market share from its bigger rivals, Google LLC today announced that its software platform for bringing its cloud services into private data centers is more or less ready…

Cloud

Google to acquire cloud data migration startup Alooma

By Robert Hof Feb 19, 2019

Picking away at bigger cloud computing rivals, Google LLC today said it plans to acquire Alooma Inc., which helps companies move their disparate data into a single cloud data warehouse. Google didn’t say how much…

NEWS

Jeff Bezos claims National Enquirer tried to blackmail him with nude selfies

By Robert Hof Feb 8, 2019

Updated: Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos came out Thursday with guns blazing against the owner of the tabloid National Enquirer, which he claimed threatened to release explicit selfies he and his girlfriend sent…

NEWS

Google pitches ‘confidential computing’ challenge to boost cloud security

By Robert Hof Feb 6, 2019

There are plenty of ways to secure data while it’s sitting in databases and while it’s winging around networks, even if the means remain far from perfect. But what about when the data is…

Cloud

Alphabet beats earnings forecast, but costs weigh on shares

By Robert Hof Feb 4, 2019

Updated: In almost as much of an anticlimax as Sunday’s Snoozer Bowl, Alphabet Inc. today again beat most expectations for its fourth quarter thanks to continued strength in its search and video advertising and…

Cloud

Amazon’s cloud again boosts profits but sales guidance disappoints

By Robert Hof Jan 31, 2019

Updated Cloud computing keeps wagging Amazon.com Inc.’s e-commerce dog, with no signs the tail-wagging will slow down anytime soon. The Seattle-based retail and cloud behemoth today reported fourth-quarter earnings that easily beat expectations thanks…

Apps

Despite ongoing data and privacy issues, Facebook’s business keeps rolling

By Robert Hof Jan 30, 2019

Updated In case anyone had forgotten amid its unending data and privacy issues, Facebook Inc. actually is a business — one that keeps making a lot of money. The social networking giant proved that…

Cloud

Earnings outlook: Cloud, AI spending could boost tech giants’ growth – for now

By Robert Hof Jan 18, 2019

Executives at Choice Hotels International Inc. realized years ago that they needed upgrade the company’s information technology systems — especially a global reservations system that, like many companies’ mission-critical systems, predated the internet. Ultimately,…

AI

Ready or not, a lot more AI-powered services are coming

By Robert Hof Jan 7, 2019

For a technology that’s decades old, artificial intelligence managed to emerge in the public imagination as one of the signature technologies of 2018 — if not always in a positive way. On the upside,…

AI

IBM on what’s coming in AI: more trust, less bias and a quantum boost

By Robert Hof Dec 13, 2018

IBM Corp. is justly famous for pioneering work in artificial intelligence, even decades before its Watson computer beat a couple of “Jeopardy” champions. But in recent years, its work has been eclipsed at least…

Robert Hof

Jeff Bezos claims National Enquirer tried to blackmail him with nude selfies

Ready or not, a lot more AI-powered services are coming

IBM on what’s coming in AI: more trust, less bias and a quantum boost

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