Robert Hof

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

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GE’s Avitas Systems hopes to reinvent industrial inspection with AI from Nvidia

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Inspecting industrial equipment such as oil rigs and electrical towers is a messy, expensive, time-consuming and dangerous undertaking. Nvidia Corp. and General Electric Co.’s Avitas Systems are looking to change all that. The two companies today announced that Avitas, which was formed …

Team communications apps are out of control. With Stride, Atlassian aims to fix that

APPS By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

You’re on Slack every hour of the waking day, or maybe it’s HipChat, or Microsoft Corp.’s Teams, or even Facebook Inc.’s Workplace. You do Hangouts or Zoom or WebEx video conferencing several times a day. And you’ve still got an email inbox …

ICO 101: This is how to do initial coin offerings right – and wrong

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Initial coin offerings, a method of crowdfunding using cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin or custom coins or tokens, have exploded this year. A stunning $1.1 billion has been raised in 89 ICOs so far this year, 10 times as much as in all …

Box beats earnings forecasts amid ongoing losses, but shares fall

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

It’s no surprise that cloud content management company Box Inc. keeps losing money as it chases growth, but the strategy means that investors get a little worried when results don’t keep smashing their expectations. That’s what happened today. Box announced that it …

Pivotal, Google and VMware team up on software container service

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Pivotal, which helps companies build software to run in public and private clouds, today announced a new service to deploy applications in software “containers” to run on Google Inc.’s cloud service and on VMware Inc.’s vSphere suite of virtualization services. The new Pivotal …

Why initial coin offerings are exploding – and how companies can avoid the landmines

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Every other day, it seems, a new startup is raising millions of dollars by selling cryptocurrency coins or tokens to raise money — lots of money, really fast. In May, for instance, Web browser startup Brave raised $35 million by selling its …

Pure Storage shares jump on strong earnings, but it replaces CEO with former Cisco exec Charles Giancarlo

INFRA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Storage technology startup Pure Storage Inc. today said it’s kicking Chief Executive Scott Dietzen upstairs to chairman and appointing veteran tech executive Charles Giancarlo its new CEO. The company, which makes large flash-memory storage systems, made the announcement as it also reported better-than-expected …

Google offers cheaper network pricing tier for its cloud

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Hoping to battle its way into contention with cloud computing leaders Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Azure, Google Inc. today offered a new, cheaper way to get basic network access on its cloud platform. The Network Service Tiers, released today in …

Box taps Google cloud vision AI to make sense of enterprise files and images

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Hoping to help companies make sense of their growing crush of data, Box Inc. today announced a deal with Google Inc. to tap into the search giant’s artificial intelligence prowess. The file sharing and cloud content management company said it will use …

In its slow shift to software, network giant Cisco’s revenue falls again

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF9 YEARS AGO

Cisco Systems Inc. marked another small step in its long slog toward becoming more of a software company with a seventh straight decline in quarterly revenue. The world’s largest maker of network switches and routers that move data over a large chunk …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Team communications apps are out of control. With Stride, Atlassian aims to fix that

ICO 101: This is how to do initial coin offerings right – and wrong

Why initial coin offerings are exploding – and how companies can avoid the landmines

Pure Storage shares jump on strong earnings, but it replaces CEO with former Cisco exec Charles Giancarlo

Box taps Google cloud vision AI to make sense of enterprise files and images

In its slow shift to software, network giant Cisco’s revenue falls again

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