Robert Hof

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

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Oracle CEO Mark Hurd: IT spending is flat, and cloud is the only way out

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Business information technology spending isn’t really growing, and there’s little prospect for that to change, Oracle Chief Executive Mark Hurd told customers at the database and business software giant’s OpenWorld conference today in San Francisco. Of course, cloud computing itself may have …

Oracle joins the blockchain party with new cloud service

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Eager to latch onto a hot trend, Oracle Corp. today introduced a cloud blockchain service that it hopes will help it vault past existing rivals IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. Blockchain is the distributed-ledger technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but it …

Oracle injects AI smarts into more cloud applications

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. today announced that it’s extending artificial-intelligence smarts to many of its core business applications. These “Adaptive Intelligent Apps” will be built into existing Oracle cloud applications, in particular for cloud versions of its enterprise resource planning, human capital management, supply …

As its data cloud launches, iguazio nabs Grab as a marquee customer

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Iguazio Systems Ltd. today launched its “continuous analytics” platform that it unveiled in concept over a year ago, promising a faster and simpler way to use massive amounts of data in real time The Israel-based company said its Unified Data Platform, which …

Unveiling AI acceleration software, Nvidia jumps into China market with big partners

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Nvidia Corp., whose graphics chips are the basis for many recent advances in artificial intelligence, Monday night unveiled new software to accelerate AI work for applications ranging from self-driving cars to speech and image recognition. The company, which is opening one of …

Red Hat shares rise as it beats and raises its earnings forecasts again

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc., best-known for its long-running Linux operating software for corporate data centers and a bellwether for open-source software companies, just keeps on rolling. The company today reported a second-fiscal quarter profit of $96.9 million, or 53 cents a share, way …

With DataPlane, Hortonworks aims to help companies drowning in data lakes

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

When the term “data lake” was coined in 2011, the notion was that organizations needed a single pool for all their data, so it could be tapped for whatever analysis or other application it was needed for, instead of languishing in countless …

Oracle’s Larry Ellison pokes Amazon again with new cloud pricing plan

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. went on the offensive again versus Amazon.com Inc. today with a new cloud pricing plan that gives discounts to Oracle database customers who move their databases to the cloud. Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison (pictured) said during an …

The cloud war rages on: Amazon Web Services one-ups rivals with per-second pricing

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Hoping to stay ahead of hard-charging rivals in cloud computing, Amazon Web Services Inc. today said that starting next month, it will start charging for its computing services by the second. Competitors such as Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure have …

Cloudera rebounds on revenue and profit outlook, buys Fast Forward Labs

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

In its second quarter since going public in April, big-data firm Cloudera Inc. managed to beat expectations, reversing a first-quarter disappointment that saw its shares plunge 16 percent the next day. The company, which sells machine learning and data analytics software and services …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Oracle joins the blockchain party with new cloud service

Unveiling AI acceleration software, Nvidia jumps into China market with big partners

With DataPlane, Hortonworks aims to help companies drowning in data lakes

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