Robert Hof, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Nvidia graphics chips accelerate their ascent to the cloud

By Robert Hof Mar 24, 2017

Nvidia Corp. started out making graphics chips for gaming, and years ago it leveraged the processing power of those chips to sell into data centers as they became the go-to silicon to power the…

Apps

RingCentral takes new swing at unifying all our communications

By Robert Hof Mar 23, 2017

With the traditional office phone at death’s door for years, many companies have tried to bring voice together with email and innumerable other messaging and collaboration apps. Today RingCentral Inc. is taking another crack…

Emerging Tech

Andrew Ng leaves chief scientist post at Baidu to take AI beyond tech

By Robert Hof Mar 22, 2017

Andrew Ng, the onetime co-creator of the Google Brain research project who joined Baidu Inc. as its chief scientist in 2014, today said he’s leaving the Chinese tech giant to pursue his own work…

Big Data

MetaX wields blockchain in bold bid to clean up digital advertising

By Robert Hof Mar 21, 2017

It’s no secret that digital advertising is riddled with fraudsters and scammers who do everything from running phantom ads never viewed by a human being to injecting malware-laden ads into websites. That’s the problem that…

Cloud

Cloud computing growth lifts Oracle’s profits, and its shares

By Robert Hof Mar 15, 2017

Rapid growth in cloud computing revenues helped lift Oracle Corp.’s fortunes in its third fiscal quarter reported today, as its profits easily beat forecasts on a 2 percent rise in revenues. The Silicon Valley…

Infra

Tech IPO train starts speeding up as Yext and Okta file for offerings

By Robert Hof Mar 13, 2017

The long drought in technology initial public offerings looks to be easing as two more companies today filed registration papers to sell shares. New York-based Yext Inc., which makes software to help businesses manage…

Cloud

With a flurry of new cloud services, Google checks off more enterprise boxes

By Robert Hof Mar 9, 2017

Google Inc. today unveiled an almost numbing array of new cloud security, data analytics and collaboration services in a continuing drive to convince big companies that they need to make the tech giant’s cloud…

Cloud

At Google’s cloud conference kickoff, it was all about the customers

By Robert Hof Mar 8, 2017

Some 10,000 people came to Google’s annual Cloud Next conference for software developers and partners today in San Francisco to hear about new technologies. They didn’t get much of that. Instead, the tech giant…

Cloud

Can Google’s cloud finally win a place in the enterprise?

By Robert Hof Mar 7, 2017

When Google Inc. opens its three-day Cloud Next conference on Wednesday, its top executives will be showing off new services, partnerships and customers of its cloud computing service in hopes of stealing a march…

Cloud

In conversation with Amit Zavery: Oracle makes the case for its cloud

By Robert Hof Mar 4, 2017

Oracle Corp. barely shows up on most lists of the biggest cloud computing providers. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure dominate, and even Google Inc.’s and IBM Corp.’s clouds far behind the leaders are…

Robert Hof

Nvidia graphics chips accelerate their ascent to the cloud

Andrew Ng leaves chief scientist post at Baidu to take AI beyond tech

MetaX wields blockchain in bold bid to clean up digital advertising

Tech IPO train starts speeding up as Yext and Okta file for offerings

Can Google’s cloud finally win a place in the enterprise?

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