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

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Storage 2012 – Boring + Irrelevant. The Sad Tech Version of Nielsen?

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for midrange and high-end storage arrays is out, and according to a blog post from Wikibon’s chief analyst Dave Vellante, it’s a mashup of different protocols, formats, sizes and shapes. In a word describing this report – Boring. …

Data: Silicon Valley Startup Scene Getting Squeezed at the Series A Level Says Fenwick & West Law Firm

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

Fenwick and West, a Silicon Valley law firm, put out data from 2012 that describes the state of the seed financing landscape. This is the firm’s third survey and it is mainly focused on Internet, software, and media startups. Read : …

Apple Security Hole Exposes Users – Apple Adds Two Step Verification or Two Factor Authentication

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

A new security vulnerability affects Apple users that allows anyone who has your email address and date of birth (DOB) to reset your password. While Apple was adding two-factor authentication, it saw a vulnerability that opens a huge security hole if you don’t upgrade. In an apparent good …

Jeff Hammerbacher Chief Data Scientist Wants To Change the World – Charlie Rose Interview

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

At SiliconANGLE we coined a term “tech athlete” a person who consistently demonstrates excellence at all levels. Jeff Hammerbacher is a “tech athlete”. In real life he was a real athlete going to Harvard to play baseball and then on to be …

Breaking Analysis : Oracle Earnings #Fail + Stock Drop – Sales Under Assault from Open Source

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

Oracle announced a rather poor quarter yesterday, blaming poor sales tactics for a really bad third-quarter software sales. And things are only going to get worse, with Oracle saying it will lose more ground this quarter. Investors were left wondering, while its stock …

Breaking Analysis: HP Increases Dividend – Showing Wall Street Confidence

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

Hewlett-Packard today announced that the HP board of directors has authorized a 10 percent increase in the amount of its regular quarterly dividend, to $0.1452 per share. The increase in the amount of the dividend will be effective when the HP board …

Breaking Analysis: HP Shareholder Fireworks – Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch Sends Another Open Letter

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

Last fall, Hewlett-Packard surprised the world when it told Wall Street that it was posting a $8 .8 billion write off charge from the overpriced Autonomy deal. SiliconANGLE was the first to report the accounting issue, which quickly became a huge firestorm. Now Autonomy …

Why Andy Rubin is Quiting Android

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

Last week Google revealed Android chief was stepping down. At that time, I posted the following on my Facebook Silicon Valley Network site: “Google Puts Android and Chrome Under One Boss – Focuses on Operating System of the Future.” Andy Rubin was …

No More White Boards: Smart Board Innovated White Boards Now Introduces Smart Rooms for Business

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

SMART Technologies, makers of the innovative SMART Board system which made white boards interactive, announces the SMART Room System. The SMART Room was introduced today at Enterprise Connect. I talked with Mike Piha the founder and CEO of In2Change, Silicon Valley’s leading …

Oracle Acquires Nimbula – Now Part of OpenStack ?

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

Oracle announced it has agreed to acquire Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software. When megatrends heat up Oracle has no problem stepping up to the plate and buying their way into the market. Here public and enterprise grade clouds …

John Furrier

Latest from John Furrier

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Storage 2012 – Boring + Irrelevant. The Sad Tech Version of Nielsen?

Data: Silicon Valley Startup Scene Getting Squeezed at the Series A Level Says Fenwick & West Law Firm

Apple Security Hole Exposes Users – Apple Adds Two Step Verification or Two Factor Authentication

Jeff Hammerbacher Chief Data Scientist Wants To Change the World – Charlie Rose Interview

Breaking Analysis : Oracle Earnings #Fail + Stock Drop – Sales Under Assault from Open Source

Breaking Analysis: HP Increases Dividend – Showing Wall Street Confidence

Breaking Analysis: HP Shareholder Fireworks – Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch Sends Another Open Letter

Why Andy Rubin is Quiting Android

No More White Boards: Smart Board Innovated White Boards Now Introduces Smart Rooms for Business

Oracle Acquires Nimbula – Now Part of OpenStack ?

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