Robert Hof, Author at SiliconANGLE

Emerging Tech

Baidu taps into latest Nvidia graphics chips for AI in the cloud and cars

By Robert Hof Jul 5, 2017

Nvidia Corp. and Baidu Inc. today announced they’re teaming up to bring the processing power of Nvidia’s latest graphics chips to artificial-intelligence services in the Chinese Internet giant’s services, in particular self-driving cars. The…

Big Data

Baidu updates benchmark for rating chips on deep learning

By Robert Hof Jun 28, 2017

Less than a year after debuting a way to measure how well various processor chips can train computers to learn using neural network models, Baidu Inc. today updated the benchmark tool to gauge how well the…

Apps

Google will stop scanning Gmail messages to target ads

By Robert Hof Jun 23, 2017

In a move driven by its enterprise business operation, Google Inc. said today it will stop scanning messages in its free Gmail service to target ads later this year. In one of the more…

Cloud

Snowflake pitches ‘data sharehouse’ for easier cloud sharing

By Robert Hof Jun 22, 2017

Even in the dawning cloud computing era, where so much data is ostensibly easy to access, sharing critical business data among companies is still surprisingly hard. That’s the problem Snowflake Computing Inc. aims to…

Cloud

With another earnings upside, Oracle’s journey to the cloud speeds ahead

By Robert Hof Jun 21, 2017

Oracle Corp.’s move to embrace cloud computing gained more ground today as it closed out its fiscal year with another better-than-expected earnings report driven by cloud revenues. The database and business software giant reported a…

NEWS

With new AI-driven network switch, Cisco aims to recharge sagging core business

By Robert Hof Jun 20, 2017

Hoping to recharge its declining networking business, Cisco Systems Inc. today unveiled a new edition of its foundation network switching equipment along with a new subscription plan for its services, both aimed at making…

NEWS

As AI explodes, investors pour big bucks into startups

By Robert Hof Jun 17, 2017

Investment in artificial intelligence startups is on a tear as venture capitalists and corporate investors scramble to stake out a leadership position in what could be the driving trend in technology for decades to…

NEWS

In a hot cybersecurity market, Illumio raises a hefty $125M funding round

By Robert Hof Jun 7, 2017

In another sign that cybersecurity remains a hot investment area, cloud security startup Illumio Inc. today announced it has raised $125 million in a new round of funding led by a customer, J.P. Morgan…

Infra

Storage provider Tintri to go public in long-delayed stock offering

By Robert Hof Jun 2, 2017

Two years after it first aimed to go public and nine months after it filed confidentially for an initial public offering, computer storage provider Tintri Inc. is finally going to sell shares to public.…

Infra

Nvidia signs up big Taiwanese server makers to use its AI data center design

By Robert Hof May 30, 2017

Nvidia Corp. has signed up four of the world’s largest makers of computers to adopt its graphics chip-powered server design for artificial intelligence work in the most demanding “hyperscale” data centers, the company announced…

Robert Hof

Baidu updates benchmark for rating chips on deep learning

Google will stop scanning Gmail messages to target ads

Snowflake pitches ‘data sharehouse’ for easier cloud sharing

With new AI-driven network switch, Cisco aims to recharge sagging core business

As AI explodes, investors pour big bucks into startups

In a hot cybersecurity market, Illumio raises a hefty $125M funding round

Storage provider Tintri to go public in long-delayed stock offering

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