Robert Hof, Author at SiliconANGLE

Infra

Nutanix shares plunge on weaker-than-expected forecast

By Robert Hof Mar 2, 2017

Investors hammered Nutanix Inc.’s shares today as the maker of enterprise computer virtualization and storage appliances and software beat analysts’ quarterly expectations but issued a weaker-than-expected outlook for the current quarter. The company reported…

Cloud

Playing cloud catch-up, Oracle reaches out to software developers

By Robert Hof Mar 1, 2017

Hoping to catch up with cloud computing leaders such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, Oracle Corp. today kicked off the first of a 20-city worldwide series of events in the next few months…

Cloud

Nearly 5-hour Amazon Web Services outage highlights dependence on one cloud giant

By Robert Hof Feb 28, 2017

Updated with Amazon status report and additional analysis. A data storage service run by Amazon Web Services, the largest cloud computing company, suffered a widespread outage today, making some or all of hundreds of…

Infra

HPE investors unhappy as revenues and profit outlook fall

By Robert Hof Feb 23, 2017

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s long struggle to rev up new growth engines remains stuck in idle. The enterprise computing and services company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 45…

Infra

Fear alone won’t secure our information anymore

By Robert Hof Feb 17, 2017

Lots of industries, from insurance to firearms to some presidential campaigns, use fear to sell their products. But it’s hard to find one that lays it on thicker than the information security business. Nowhere…

Infra

Cisco barely beats earnings forecast but offers muted outlook

By Robert Hof Feb 15, 2017

Cisco Systems Inc. continued its fitful progress in transforming itself into a software company as it met expectations on second-fiscal quarter revenues and just topped profit estimates. The networking giant earned a profit of $2.9…

Infra

Microsoft president calls for ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ to stop state-sponsored hacking

By Robert Hof Feb 14, 2017

The world needs a digital Geneva Convention to counter state-sponsored hacking against citizens, Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith said today at the RSA Conference on information security in San Francisco. Smith (pictured) said in…

Cloud

With Spanner database service, Google raises the stakes in cloud computing

By Robert Hof Feb 14, 2017

Google Inc. today issued a big challenge to its rivals in cloud computing by opening up access to what has been described as the world’s largest database. The company is launching Cloud Spanner Beta,…

Big Data

Big data leader Hortonworks’ stock soars as earnings beat forecasts

By Robert Hof Feb 9, 2017

Getting its sales organization back on track after a stumble last year, big data software company Hortonworks Inc. reported better-than-expected earnings for the second quarter in a row. The company, whose software helps companies…

Cloud

Move over, Google – Snap has a big cloud deal with Amazon, too

By Robert Hof Feb 9, 2017

Just days after Snap Inc. said in its filing to go public that it will pay Google Inc. $2 billion over five years for cloud services, it has updated the filing to reveal another…

Robert Hof

Nutanix shares plunge on weaker-than-expected forecast

HPE investors unhappy as revenues and profit outlook fall

Fear alone won’t secure our information anymore

Cisco barely beats earnings forecast but offers muted outlook

Microsoft president calls for ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ to stop state-sponsored hacking

Big data leader Hortonworks’ stock soars as earnings beat forecasts

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