John Furrier

John Furrier is founder, co-CEO, of SiliconANGLE Media consisiting of SiliconANGLE.com. theCUBE.net, theCUBEresearch.com, and our AI Video Media Cloud. The combination of all these brands creates a new media company covering the intersection of computer science and social science. Furrier's vision is of a future that uses technology and data to create quality content and user experiences while creating and growing quality communities.

Simply put: To extract the signal from the noise! Our motto: we cover everything "where Computer Science meets Social Science". Furrier lives in Palo Alto, California.

Latest from John Furrier

Microsoft Lays Off 14% of Company #NokiaFail

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER12 YEARS AGO

In possibly the most awkward moment in the company’s history, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella dropped the bomb (formal memo) to employees: The company will fire 14 percent of its employees, or roughly 18,000 people. Microsoft’s employee base skyrocketed over the years to more …

CrowdChat with EMC VMAX Senior Managers #VMAX3

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER12 YEARS AGO

Holding a CrowdChat with senior EMC leaders in storage – VMAX to the Power of 3. Ask Brian Gallagher, Fidelma Russo, & Barry Burke anything about the new VMAX platform.

CrowdChat #DOES14 #Devops

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER12 YEARS AGO

I am hosting a CrowdChat with Steve Brodie and Gene Kim to promote DevOps Enterprise: The Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps Transformation Summit, October 21-23, 2014, in Burlingame, CA.

Anonymous social network Secret raises $25 Million

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER12 YEARS AGO

Secret, a mobile-first social network that allows people to share their personal thoughts and beliefs with others anonymously, raised $25 million in a second round of funding that values the company at $100 million and positions it to take on mainstream social networks. …

Pure Storage Bags $225 Million in Funding at $3 Billion Valuation – IPO? No It’s Private Financing

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER12 YEARS AGO

Flash array storage startup Pure Storage announced a massive new $225 million Series F round that values the company at $3 billion and signals a growing trend toward startups raising private capital instead of testing the public markets. This latest investment actually looks …

Live: CrowdChat #CloudChat IBM Watson and Cloud

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER12 YEARS AGO

IBM is hosting an innovative #CrowdChat on Watson and the Cloud. Transcript of the live recorded crowd conversation below. The topics will be about how IBM Watson ties in with #cloud computing. It’s been three years since IBM Watson appeared on Jeopardy, …

Facebook Data Science Team Announces Open Source Tools for A/B Testing

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER12 YEARS AGO

Facebook is continuing their mission of donating goodness to the community with the release of sourcr code called PlanOut. PlanOut is used for online A/B testing experiments. This is a great move for Facebook, developers, and the data community. As we talk …

Cloudera raises monster round of $900 million; $740M from Intel for 18 percent

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER12 YEARS AGO

Cloudera announced that they raised a total of $900 million in equity in a private round of funding. Notable was the monster investment from Intel a whopping $740 million. Reuters reports that this investment was for an 18 percent stake roughly 4.1 …

International Academic Conference looking For industry practitioners to present on “BigData”

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER12 YEARS AGO

An International academic conference on big data management system is looking to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in sharing and presenting their perspectives on the effective management of Big Data systems. The conference’s Chair Prof. Karsten Schwan …

Arizona Anti Gay Law #SB1062 In Full Rage Debate – WTF

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

People are shocked that Arizona is considering this anti gay law #SB1062 I’ve created a CrowdChat to bring in the public conversation for an “on the record” crowd chat. www.crowdchat.net/sb1062 Public Chat Live Right Now – See Real Time Embed Below …

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Latest from John Furrier

Microsoft Lays Off 14% of Company #NokiaFail

CrowdChat with EMC VMAX Senior Managers #VMAX3

CrowdChat #DOES14 #Devops

Anonymous social network Secret raises $25 Million

Pure Storage Bags $225 Million in Funding at $3 Billion Valuation – IPO? No It’s Private Financing

Live: CrowdChat #CloudChat IBM Watson and Cloud

Facebook Data Science Team Announces Open Source Tools for A/B Testing

Cloudera raises monster round of $900 million; $740M from Intel for 18 percent

International Academic Conference looking For industry practitioners to present on “BigData”

Arizona Anti Gay Law #SB1062 In Full Rage Debate – WTF

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