Robert Hof

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

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Nvidia surrounds its graphics chips with new computers and AI services

With its next marquee graphics processing unit chip not due to debut until next year, Nvidia Corp. today opened its GPU Technology Conference instead with a raft of new machines and services intended to cement the leading position of its existing chips in computer graphics, data science and artificial intelligence. Among the introductions headlining the ...

For Google Cloud and the NCAA, March Madness is all about the data

Making sense of massive amounts of data is critical to every organization today — this time of year, no more so than to the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With the March Madness college basketball tournament season starting next week, Google LLC is expanding its work with the NCAA to crunch the association’s 80 years of ...

With new plan, Google makes cloud data storage more predictable

The ability to pay as you go is one of the big selling points for cloud services, doing away with overpaying for servers or enterprise software licenses that may end up underused. But the flipside is that cloud services costs such as data storage can be unpredictable budget-busters. Google LLC today introduced a new pricing ...

Newly public Dell cleans up on servers and storage, but investors yawn

Updated: In its first quarter as a newly public company, Dell Technologies Inc. today reported marginally better-than-expected quarterly revenue growth but a higher-than-expected net loss. The 9 percent revenue growth was centered in servers and networking gear as well as in Dell’s share of the spoils from its 80 percent ownership of computing virtualization giant ...

Google doubles down on hybrid computing with Cloud Services Platform beta

Hoping to wrest some cloud computing market share from its bigger rivals, Google LLC today announced that its software platform for bringing its cloud services into private data centers is more or less ready for prime time. In particular, Google said its Cloud Services Platform, announced at its Cloud Next conference last July, today is ...

Google to acquire cloud data migration startup Alooma

Picking away at bigger cloud computing rivals, Google LLC today said it plans to acquire Alooma Inc., which helps companies move their disparate data into a single cloud data warehouse. Google didn’t say how much it paid for the Redwood City, California-based startup, which also has significant presence in Tel Aviv, but it was likely not ...

Jeff Bezos claims National Enquirer tried to blackmail him with nude selfies

Updated: Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos came out Thursday with guns blazing against the owner of the tabloid National Enquirer, which he claimed threatened to release explicit selfies he and his girlfriend sent to each other. The charge came in a long, exceedingly rare and unusually frank missive on Medium from the usually utterly ...

Google pitches ‘confidential computing’ challenge to boost cloud security

There are plenty of ways to secure data while it’s sitting in databases and while it’s winging around networks, even if the means remain far from perfect. But what about when the data is being actively used in cloud applications and services? That particular state of data is what the emerging concept of “confidential computing” ...

Alphabet beats earnings forecast, but costs weigh on shares

Updated: In almost as much of an anticlimax as Sunday’s Snoozer Bowl, Alphabet Inc. today again beat most expectations for its fourth quarter thanks to continued strength in its search and video advertising and investment gains. Only problem: Some higher expenses for spending on cloud engineers and data centers as well as YouTube content didn’t ...

Amazon’s cloud again boosts profits but sales guidance disappoints

Updated Cloud computing keeps wagging Amazon.com Inc.’s e-commerce dog, with no signs the tail-wagging will slow down anytime soon. The Seattle-based retail and cloud behemoth today reported fourth-quarter earnings that easily beat expectations thanks in part to its highly profitable Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud unit. But the company provided first-quarter guidance that fell a ...