Robert Hof

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

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Box taps cloud giants’ machine learning to create custom data ‘skills’

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Box Inc. wants its customers to do more with all the files they’re storing on its content management service. Today, it announced a couple of new tools powered in part by machine learning technology to give customers more ways to extract value …

Enterprise giants IBM and SAP dive deeper into deep learning

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

In a sign that deep learning neural networks are going mainstream, computing and software giants IBM Corp. and SAP SE today announced separate initiatives aimed at making it easier for large enterprises to use deep learning in their operations. Deep learning neural …

Flipboard launches self-service program for publishers

APPS By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

As most people have flocked in recent years to view websites and videos on their smartphones and tablets rather than on computers, many sites now get upwards of 90 percent of their traffic from mobile. That includes the social magazine app Flipboard, …

Google brings AI home with new phones, speakers and more. Will consumers bite?

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Pretty much as expected, Google LLC unveiled a wide array of new phones, smart speakers, earbuds, a tiny camera and more in yet another bid to become a premium supplier of consumer devices. Underlying the sharp new designs and cutting-edge hardware, however, Google …

Oracle beefs up cloud cybersecurity service with machine learning

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Latching onto the key threat facing companies today, Oracle Corp. founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison announced a new cloud cybersecurity service that he promises will mostly automate the process of detecting and quashing data thefts. Ellison (pictured), speaking at the …

Oracle tries again to carve out a piece of the cloud infrastructure market

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Hoping to claw a path into leadership in cloud computing, Oracle Corp. today announced a raft of upgrades to its infrastructure-as-a-service offering, spanning computing, storage and networking. The goal is to provide better cloud performance for the largest enterprises, many of which …

Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini dies at 66

INFRA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Former Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini, the first non-engineer to run the chip making giant, died in his sleep Monday at age 66. Otellini began at the company in 1974 in its finance department, moving to the new microprocessor group in the …

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

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

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 web apps. The Cloud Firestore is a so-called …

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

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

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 Francisco. Of course, cloud computing itself may have …

Oracle joins the blockchain party with new cloud service

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

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 technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but it …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Enterprise giants IBM and SAP dive deeper into deep learning

Flipboard launches self-service program for publishers

Google brings AI home with new phones, speakers and more. Will consumers bite?

Oracle beefs up cloud cybersecurity service with machine learning

Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini dies at 66

Oracle joins the blockchain party with new cloud service

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