Robert Hof

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

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Playing cloud catch-up, Oracle reaches out to software developers

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

Hoping to catch up with cloud computing leaders such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, Oracle Corp. today kicked off the first of a 20-city worldwide series of events in the next few months that are aimed at attracting more cloud software developers. …

Nearly 5-hour Amazon Web Services outage highlights dependence on one cloud giant

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

Updated with Amazon status report and additional analysis. A data storage service run by Amazon Web Services, the largest cloud computing company, suffered a widespread outage today, making some or all of hundreds of websites unavailable and disrupting services used by millions …

HPE investors unhappy as revenues and profit outlook fall

INFRA By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s long struggle to rev up new growth engines remains stuck in idle. The enterprise computing and services company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 45 cents a share in the first fiscal quarter …

Fear alone won’t secure our information anymore

INFRA By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

Lots of industries, from insurance to firearms to some presidential campaigns, use fear to sell their products. But it’s hard to find one that lays it on thicker than the information security business. Nowhere was that more apparent than at the industry’s …

Cisco barely beats earnings forecast but offers muted outlook

INFRA By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

Cisco Systems Inc. continued its fitful progress in transforming itself into a software company as it met expectations on second-fiscal quarter revenues and just topped profit estimates. The networking giant earned a profit of $2.9 billion, or 57 cents a share, before certain …

Microsoft president calls for ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ to stop state-sponsored hacking

INFRA By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

The world needs a digital Geneva Convention to counter state-sponsored hacking against citizens, Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith said today at the RSA Conference on information security in San Francisco. Smith (pictured) said in a blog post that the world’s governments need …

With Spanner database service, Google raises the stakes in cloud computing

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. today issued a big challenge to its rivals in cloud computing by opening up access to what has been described as the world’s largest database. The company is launching Cloud Spanner Beta, providing software developers with a database service available …

Big data leader Hortonworks’ stock soars as earnings beat forecasts

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

Getting its sales organization back on track after a stumble last year, big data software company Hortonworks Inc. reported better-than-expected earnings for the second quarter in a row. The company, whose software helps companies collect and analyze massive amounts of data across …

Move over, Google – Snap has a big cloud deal with Amazon, too

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

Just days after Snap Inc. said in its filing to go public that it will pay Google Inc. $2 billion over five years for cloud services, it has updated the filing to reveal another big cloud deal: a $1 billion, five-year pact …

Virtual and augmented reality plunge into the trough of disillusionment

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF10 YEARS AGO

In Gartner Inc.’s well-known Hype Cycle for tracking the commercial progress of a technology, the “trough of disillusionment” is the point at which “interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver.” That about describes the state of virtual and augmented reality …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

HPE investors unhappy as revenues and profit outlook fall

Fear alone won’t secure our information anymore

Cisco barely beats earnings forecast but offers muted outlook

Microsoft president calls for ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ to stop state-sponsored hacking

Big data leader Hortonworks’ stock soars as earnings beat forecasts

Virtual and augmented reality plunge into the trough of disillusionment

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