Robert Hof, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Hoping to boost its cloud, Google debuts new Firestore database for apps

By Robert Hof Oct 3, 2017

In another attempt to make its cloud service relevant versus much larger rivals, Google LLC today introduced a new cloud database for software developers to store all the data used in their mobile and…

Cloud

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd: IT spending is flat, and cloud is the only way out

By Robert Hof Oct 2, 2017

Business information technology spending isn’t really growing, and there’s little prospect for that to change, Oracle Chief Executive Mark Hurd told customers at the database and business software giant’s OpenWorld conference today in San…

Emerging Tech

Oracle joins the blockchain party with new cloud service

By Robert Hof Oct 2, 2017

Eager to latch onto a hot trend, Oracle Corp. today introduced a cloud blockchain service that it hopes will help it vault past existing rivals IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. Blockchain is the distributed-ledger…

Cloud

Oracle injects AI smarts into more cloud applications

By Robert Hof Oct 2, 2017

Oracle Corp. today announced that it’s extending artificial-intelligence smarts to many of its core business applications. These “Adaptive Intelligent Apps” will be built into existing Oracle cloud applications, in particular for cloud versions of…

Big Data

As its data cloud launches, iguazio nabs Grab as a marquee customer

By Robert Hof Sep 27, 2017

Iguazio Systems Ltd. today launched its “continuous analytics” platform that it unveiled in concept over a year ago, promising a faster and simpler way to use massive amounts of data in real time The…

Emerging Tech

Unveiling AI acceleration software, Nvidia jumps into China market with big partners

By Robert Hof Sep 25, 2017

Nvidia Corp., whose graphics chips are the basis for many recent advances in artificial intelligence, Monday night unveiled new software to accelerate AI work for applications ranging from self-driving cars to speech and image…

Cloud

Red Hat shares rise as it beats and raises its earnings forecasts again

By Robert Hof Sep 25, 2017

Red Hat Inc., best-known for its long-running Linux operating software for corporate data centers and a bellwether for open-source software companies, just keeps on rolling. The company today reported a second-fiscal quarter profit of…

Big Data

With DataPlane, Hortonworks aims to help companies drowning in data lakes

By Robert Hof Sep 25, 2017

When the term “data lake” was coined in 2011, the notion was that organizations needed a single pool for all their data, so it could be tapped for whatever analysis or other application it…

Cloud

Oracle’s Larry Ellison pokes Amazon again with new cloud pricing plan

By Robert Hof Sep 19, 2017

Oracle Corp. went on the offensive again versus Amazon.com Inc. today with a new cloud pricing plan that gives discounts to Oracle database customers who move their databases to the cloud. Chairman and Chief…

Cloud

The cloud war rages on: Amazon Web Services one-ups rivals with per-second pricing

By Robert Hof Sep 18, 2017

Hoping to stay ahead of hard-charging rivals in cloud computing, Amazon Web Services Inc. today said that starting next month, it will start charging for its computing services by the second. Competitors such as…

Robert Hof

Oracle joins the blockchain party with new cloud service

Unveiling AI acceleration software, Nvidia jumps into China market with big partners

With DataPlane, Hortonworks aims to help companies drowning in data lakes

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