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

Why We Need an Open Source Hypercard

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

{Guest Post by trusted friend and Internet legal visionary David Johnson currently running Graphical Groupware a private legal game development company.} Livecode has launched a kickstarter campaign to raise the funds needed to allow it to re-engineer their latter day version of …

VMware Marching Towards Software Defined Datacenter with Software Defined Storage Acquisition of Virsto

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

VMware today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virsto Software, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of software that optimizes storage performance and utilization in virtual environments. This is a big move for Virsto. Virsto has done a great job in VM …

Apple Becomes Largest Mobile Phone Vendor in United States

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Apple has become the #1 mobile phone vendor according to a recent report by Strategy Analysis market research firm. Mobile phone shipments grew 4 percent annually from 50.2 million units in Q4 2011 to 52.0million in the United States in Q4 2012. …

Dell 2.0 – Michael Dell Going “All-In” – Going Private is Gutsy Move

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

According to Reuters Dell Inc is about to go private in a buyout led by its founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, possibly announcing a deal as soon as Monday, according to two people familiar …

NEA VC Bolts Firm to Head Up NYC Startup Incubator Techstars

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

It was announced today that Eugene Chung (@eyc), a venture capitalist at NEA, flew the nest at NEA to head up NYC startup incubator TechStars NYC. On Twitter Eugene describes himself as “Managing Director at TechStars NYC, film director, dreams about solipsism …

Big Data Search Engines are Big Right Now – Stremor Announces Heuristic Engine

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Big Data is all the rage right now. Search engines value appears to be polluted with SEO and social networks are booming. Graph search is hot and Big Data is smoking hot. Startups are constantly trying to add Big Data to their …

Facebook 4th Qtr Results – Mobile Beats Web Usage

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Facebook’s 4th quarter report just came out. Revenue for the fourth quarter totaled $1.585 billion, an increase of 40%, compared with $1.13 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011. “In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile company,” …

Storage Magic Kingdom: Top 10 Storage Trending Topics in Tech Week of Jan 30, 2013

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

The publishing and research teams at SiliconANGLE and Wikibon are tracking the top conversations trends in the technology crowd. Verticals include cloud, enterprise mobile, big data, datacenter, software-defined networking, virtualization, devops, and many more. One area in the crowd where the conversation is …

ThisMoment Proving Social Media Is About Measurement – Keeping it Real As In Real Time

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

In business there is an old saying and it goes “you can’t understand what you can’t measure”. Recently, there has been a backlash against the “S word” being thrown about by consultants looking to make a quick buck from unknowing audiences. Social …

10gen Promotes Max Schireson to CEO to Scale the Hell Out of 10Gen

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

SiliconANGLE theCUBE alum Max Schireson was promoted to CEO of 10gen from President according to the company. Co-founder and former CEO Dwight Merriman will continue to serve as Chairman in a full-time capacity. 10Gen powers MongoDB is an open source database system. …

John Furrier

Latest from John Furrier

Why We Need an Open Source Hypercard

VMware Marching Towards Software Defined Datacenter with Software Defined Storage Acquisition of Virsto

Apple Becomes Largest Mobile Phone Vendor in United States

Dell 2.0 – Michael Dell Going “All-In” – Going Private is Gutsy Move

NEA VC Bolts Firm to Head Up NYC Startup Incubator Techstars

Big Data Search Engines are Big Right Now – Stremor Announces Heuristic Engine

Facebook 4th Qtr Results – Mobile Beats Web Usage

Storage Magic Kingdom: Top 10 Storage Trending Topics in Tech Week of Jan 30, 2013

ThisMoment Proving Social Media Is About Measurement – Keeping it Real As In Real Time

10gen Promotes Max Schireson to CEO to Scale the Hell Out of 10Gen

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