Robert Hof

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

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Google pitches ‘confidential computing’ challenge to boost cloud security

SECURITY By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 being actively used in cloud applications and services? …

Alphabet beats earnings forecast, but costs weigh on shares

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 investment gains. Only problem: Some higher expenses for …

Amazon’s cloud again boosts profits but sales guidance disappoints

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 in part to its highly profitable Amazon Web …

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

APPS By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 once again today. Facebook reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results, …

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

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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, the owner of Quality Inn, Cambria Hotels and …

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

AI By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 and its related sets of technology such …

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

AI By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 in the public imagination by new AI-driven speech …

In blockbuster cloud move, Amazon jumps into the data center with both feet

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

In yet another land grab, cloud computing king Amazon Web Services Inc. today took a giant step further into the inner sanctum of customers’ data centers. At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, the Amazon.com Inc. cloud company announced Outposts, an on-premises …

Amazon debuts Inferentia, a custom machine learning prediction chip

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

In another sign of Amazon.com Inc.’s broad ambitions in cloud computing, the company’s cloud company today debuted a new processor chip designed for machine learning. The chip, called Inferentia, will be available via Amazon Web Service Inc.’s EC2 computing service as well …

AWS Ground Station offers easier access to satellite data via cloud

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

Jumping deeper into a new market, Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it will offer easier and faster cloud access to data from space via satellite communications. AWS Ground Station, announced by the Amazon.com Inc. cloud unit, will be what the company …

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

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