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

OpenStack is Eating the Enterprise

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

OpenStack is fast becoming the most important open source project in the industry to unify the growing number of cloud infrastructure vendors. HP’s George Kadifa called OpenStack one of the most important projects to enable a new computing model. The main reason …

Boston is the New Hot Hunting Grounds for Big Data Understanding

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

SiliconANGLE @theCUBE is in Boston this week for the #HPBigData2013 Vertica user conference exploring the cutting edge of big data. We also made a visit to MIT to meet the MITIQ team to talk about the expanding and changing role of the …

Microsoft Reorg Steve Ballmer Memo – One Microsoft Is The Theme

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

Below is the full memo to the Microsoft organization by CEO Steve Ballmer. The press release to public is here. My Angle: Microsoft is admitting defeat in this modern era and is making one big tact to vector in the right direction. My …

Big Data Player Hortonworks Secures Huge Funding $50 Million To Expand Hadoop Ecosystem

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

Hortonworks announced a massive funding round led by new investors Tenaya Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group, with participation from our existing investors Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Yahoo!. The new funding injection of $50 million puts Hortonworks in the center of the …

Surveillance State: Liberty & Security – Innovation of Technology Should Drive Government Policy – Opportunity

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

This Prism issue is not a new issue. Remember William Binney, whistleblower and former NSA crypto-mathematician who served in the agency for decades, said the David Petraeus sex scandal was most likely exposed using illegal surveillance of his email. Binney came to national …

Prism & NSA Conversations – Lessons Learned from the NSA on Scaling Data Mining Monitoring

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

With all the conversations around the NSA and Prism monitoring our data it’s important to learn what it takes to mine the massive amounts of data. The Atlantic had a great post on the challenges of technology advancements and how hard it …

VMware Announces New Public Cloud Hybrid Service – vCloud #vmwarehybrid

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

SiliconANGLE is covering live the VMware press event where VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and Bill Fathers, SVP GM vCloud, unveiled VMware big push into the public cloud to counter both Openstack and Amazon AWS with a unique enterprise approach called vCloud Hybrid …

New York Startup ArchetypeMe Disrupting Publishing – It’s All About Me

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

The Internet has made it easy for people to find and obtain information they want, but as a side effect it has left us with too much information on our hands. ArchetypeMe, a New York based startup founded by veteran retail entrepreneur …

EXCLUSIVE: Fusion-IO New CEO Shane Robison Clears the Air “Company is Not For Sale”

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

Shane Robison, the newly appointed CEO of Fusion-io, appeared on theCUBE on SiliconANGLE.com at #EMCWorld to clear the air on the rumors swirling around the departure of former CEO David Flynn and CMO Rick White both cofounders. Robison, Fusion-io’s new CEO, discussed …

Intel New CEO Brian Krzanich Takes Over for Paul Otellini

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

Intel announced today that the board of directors has unanimously elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer (CEO), succeeding Paul Otellini. Krzanich will assume his new role at the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting on May 16. Intel has been rebooting …

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Latest from John Furrier

OpenStack is Eating the Enterprise

Boston is the New Hot Hunting Grounds for Big Data Understanding

Microsoft Reorg Steve Ballmer Memo – One Microsoft Is The Theme

Big Data Player Hortonworks Secures Huge Funding $50 Million To Expand Hadoop Ecosystem

Surveillance State: Liberty & Security – Innovation of Technology Should Drive Government Policy – Opportunity

Prism & NSA Conversations – Lessons Learned from the NSA on Scaling Data Mining Monitoring

VMware Announces New Public Cloud Hybrid Service – vCloud #vmwarehybrid

New York Startup ArchetypeMe Disrupting Publishing – It’s All About Me

EXCLUSIVE: Fusion-IO New CEO Shane Robison Clears the Air “Company is Not For Sale”

Intel New CEO Brian Krzanich Takes Over for Paul Otellini

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