Robert Hof

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

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Despite cloud growth, slowing revenue at Alphabet sends investors fleeing

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Updated: Despite posting a better-than-expected first-quarter profit, Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc. today announced a slowdown in revenue growth that sent investors to the exits. In a quarter made murkier by accounting changes announced earlier this month, Alphabet Inc. reported a first-quarter …

Cloud computing again leads the profit parade at Amazon

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Updated: There’s still a cloud hanging over Amazon.com Inc., but that’s a good thing. Thanks once again to strong growth in its cloud computing operation, the tech and retail giant today reported better-than-expected profits in its first quarter. But light guidance for …

Facebook stock pops on earnings jump, but it takes $3B charge for FTC fine

APPS By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

All those controversies over Facebook’s data and privacy practices, fake news and election meddling have finally hit its bottom line. Facebook said today that it expects to pay a $3 billion to $5 billion fine to the Federal Trade Commission over its user …

Analysis: At Next, Google stakes new ground in multicloud computing

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

In his first big public appearance as Google Cloud’s chief executive, Thomas Kurian today sketched a vision of the company as a breath of fresh air for enterprises grappling with how to move to the cloud without jettisoning their core applications. The …

Google boosts enterprise cloud storage with Elastifile service

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

File storage is a staple for a wide range of computing jobs, from traditional business applications such as SAP SE’s to rendering movies and design electronic components. Today, Google LLC is allying with Elastifile Ltd. to bolster the file storage capabilities of …

Nvidia surrounds its graphics chips with new computers and AI services

INFRA By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

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 …

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

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

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 …

With new plan, Google makes cloud data storage more predictable

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 …

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

INFRA By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 …

Google doubles down on hybrid computing with Cloud Services Platform beta

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 …

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Facebook stock pops on earnings jump, but it takes $3B charge for FTC fine

Nvidia surrounds its graphics chips with new computers and AI services

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