Robert Hof, Author at SiliconANGLE

Infra

Less than 6 months after its IPO, storage firm Tintri considers selling out

By Robert Hof Dec 13, 2017

Less than six months after going public, storage firm Tintri Inc. today said it’s considering a sale of the company following a second straight quarter of disappointing results. In a surprise move, the Mountain…

Emerging Tech

Google opens artificial intelligence research center in China

By Robert Hof Dec 13, 2017

Google LLC can’t operate its signature search engine in China, but that’s not stopping it from pursuing another tech initiative in the country: artificial intelligence. The search giant today said it’s opening a research…

Apps

IBM courts developers with ready-to-use software packages for bots and more

By Robert Hof Dec 11, 2017

Hoping to get more software developers to use its cloud services, IBM Corp. today announced more than 100 packages of software code that can be used to create chatbots, application containers, blockchain applications and…

Big Data

Big-data firm Cloudera’s shares jump on strong earnings and outlook

By Robert Hof Dec 7, 2017

Updated After disappointing investors in the last couple of quarters, big-data pioneer Cloudera Inc. today managed to win some of them back with a favorable third-quarter earnings report. In its third quarter since going…

Emerging Tech

Fetch Robotics picks up $25M in funding for collaborative warehouse robots

By Robert Hof Dec 6, 2017

Fetch Robotics Inc. is announcing early Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in a new funding aimed at meeting accelerating demand for its warehouse robots. The San Jose, California-based company is one of…

Big Data

Zeta Global acquires commenting platform Disqus for $90M

By Robert Hof Dec 5, 2017

Marketing technology firm Zeta Global today said it’s buying social discussion platform Disqus Inc., in the largest of its 11 acquisitions to date. San Francisco-based Disqus provides a commenting system for 4 million websites…

Cloud

Re:Invent recap: Amazon bids to lead the next era of computing

By Robert Hof Dec 3, 2017

Amazon Web Services Inc. came into its sixth annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas with a fairly dominant lead in the foundational cloud computing services that are sweeping across the information technology industry. If…

Cloud

‘Alexa, welcome to the office’: Amazon calls out voice as tech’s next big disruption

By Robert Hof Nov 30, 2017

Alexa is headed to the office. Her job: reinventing information technology at every business. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit today announced that its voice assistant, currently residing mostly on its Echo line of smart…

Cloud

With a flurry of new services, Amazon aims to simplify the cloud

By Robert Hof Nov 29, 2017

Cloud computing was supposed to make corporate information technology a lot simpler, and in many ways it has — but as the cloud itself has exploded, so too has the complexity of managing all…

Cloud

Amazon’s cloud introduces ‘bare metal’ computing service

By Robert Hof Nov 29, 2017

Looking to keep ahead of rivals in cloud computing, Amazon Web Services Inc. late Tuesday announced so-called “bare-metal” server instances that provide customers with direct access to raw computing power. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud company…

Robert Hof

Less than 6 months after its IPO, storage firm Tintri considers selling out

Google opens artificial intelligence research center in China

IBM courts developers with ready-to-use software packages for bots and more

Big-data firm Cloudera’s shares jump on strong earnings and outlook

Fetch Robotics picks up $25M in funding for collaborative warehouse robots

Zeta Global acquires commenting platform Disqus for $90M

With a flurry of new services, Amazon aims to simplify the cloud

LATEST FROM THECUBE

UPCOMING CUBE EVENTS

RECENT CUBE EVENTS

Supermicro Open Storage Summit 2026

Black Hat USA 2026

GraphTalk 2026

AMD Advancing AI 2026

RAISE Summit 2026

SIGN IN

OR

New User? SIGN UP

Join us

SIGN UP

Bio

Ethics statement

Contact us

Partner with us

Contact us

Guest inquiry