Robert Hof

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

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After AWS protest, Pentagon wants to ‘reconsider’ $10B JEDI cloud contract award to Microsoft

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF6 YEARS AGO

The Department of Defense said in a court filing today that it wants to “reconsider” its disputed decision to award the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative contract to Microsoft Corp. over onetime front-runner Amazon Web Services Inc. In the filing with …

Here’s the argument that won Amazon an injunction against Microsoft’s JEDI win

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF6 YEARS AGO

In a document newly unsealed Friday, Amazon.com Inc. argued that Microsoft Corp.’s winning bid for a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computer contract should have been disqualified because the software giant’s bid called for using a data storage system that didn’t meet requirements. …

VMware earnings fall short partly from missing late-quarter deals

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. beat expectations on revenue for its fiscal 2020 fourth quarter, but it wasn’t enough to avoid a disappointing profit that sent its shares south late today. The computing virtualization software company, majority owned by Dell Technologies Inc., reported a fourth-quarter profit …

Dell sells RSA cybersecurity firm to private equity consortium for $2B+

SECURITY By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Updated: Dell Technologies Inc. announced Tuesday it’s selling its venerable RSA Security LLC business to a consortium led by Palo Alto, California-based private-equity firm Symphony Technology Group for $2.075 billion. The consortium led by the private equity firm, also known as STG …

UK to invest $1.6B in world’s most powerful weather supercomputer

INFRA By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

The British government announced today that it will invest £1.2 billion (about $1.6 billion) over the next 10 years to build the world’s most powerful supercomputer for weather forecasting and climate modeling. Of the total £1.2 billion investment, £854 million represents the …

Google Cloud revenue jumps 53% – but not enough to offset Alphabet’s disappointing quarter

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Alphabet Inc. today for the first time revealed numbers for two of its fastest-growing units, showing Google Cloud and G Suite revenue collectively jumped 53%, to $2.61 billion, and YouTube revenue rose 31%, to $4.72 billion. But the newly revealed numbers came …

Despite slight cloud slowdown, Amazon smashes earnings forecasts

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Despite a slight slowdown in revenue growth, Amazon’s massive cloud computing company again helped buoy the entire company even in the retail-heavy fourth quarter, sending shares soaring as much as 13% in after-hours trading today. The company overall reported net income of …

Facebook shares plunge on disappointing profit, growth concerns

APPS By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Amid all its privacy, regulatory and content moderation issues, Facebook Inc.’s earnings almost seem irrelevant — but not today, when the social networking giant reported results that disappointed investors. The company actually reported better-than-expected sales of $21.08 billion in its fourth quarter, up …

AWS files motion to stop work on Pentagon’s JEDI cloud computing contract

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. Wednesday evening filed a motion to stop further work on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing project. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or JEDI contract was awarded to Microsoft Corp. last year after a hotly contested competition. The …

At re:Invent, Amazon beefs up its cloud with AI and takes it to the network edge

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

In the big reveals of its annual cloud computing conference, Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted new processors and a bunch of new machine learning services intended to make high-performance computing and machine learning easier, as well as yet more services intended …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Dell sells RSA cybersecurity firm to private equity consortium for $2B+

UK to invest $1.6B in world’s most powerful weather supercomputer

Google Cloud revenue jumps 53% – but not enough to offset Alphabet’s disappointing quarter

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