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

Desperately Seeking Flash – Seagate Invests $40 Million in Virident Systems For Joint Flash Solution

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Seagate Technology and Virident Systems announced a strategic partnership to jointly deliver flash storage solutions to the enterprise. In conjunction with the partnership, Seagate is investing $40 million in Virident and will appoint a member to its Board of Directors. With the partnership Seagate …

Content Silos and the Distribution of Personal Business Intelligence

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Guest Post: This is a guest post by Venture Capitalist Frank Artale, Partner at Ignition Partners. The notion of personal business intelligence may seem a bit odd. The fact of the matter is that we all create, consume, view, and bookmark a …

Opinion: EMC Cisco NetApp – New Reality TV Show — Cisco Not Leaving VCE Anytime Soon

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

The IT infrastructure business can sometimes feel like a “reality TV show” and their partnerships a zero sum game. A reality show maybe zero sum game NOT! Today I read a Network World article titled Cisco gets closer to NetApp, further from …

Linksys Group at Cisco Sold to Belkin

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Cisco System dumped their Linksys group in deal with Belkin. It was announced that Belkin entered into an agreement to acquire Cisco’s Home Networking Business Unit which included Linksys. Belkin intends to maintain the Linksys brand and will offer support for Linksys products …

Swipp Startup Announces New Social Network For Sharing

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Today, Swipp a Silicon Valley startup announces their social network application platform called Swipp. Swipp is a standalone application and underlying platform that is being launched in 45 countries simultaneously. This should give the new application a good start. Swipp founders told me …

Fusion-io Launched New Hyperscale Flash Product to Scale Data Centers for Enterprises, Not Just Facebook

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Two years ago I wrote about Facebook’s infrastructure would be the model for infrastructure of all enterprise information technology environments. That post was an effort to explain (at the time) why SiliconANGLE was bullish on Fusion-io when the general market was confused. …

Facebook Launches Social Search – Called Graph Search

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Update: I just spoke with Mark Zuckerberg right after the event and asked him what the tech was involved in this new big search plan. He told me that Facebook built their own system, called Unicorn, and it will have two strategies …

Cloud Trends: Can Amazon Shed the Low End Image of Shadow IT in the Enterprise

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Research study report from the team at Wikibon.org goes in-depth on Amazon’s Web Service (AWS) plans to attack the enterprise market. Can Amazon win in the enterprise? SiliconANGLE and Wikibon are on the case. Here is a detailed report from Wikibon.org – …

How Many Angel Investments? This is Moneyball of VC Trend

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

{Guest Post: This is a guest post from Kevin Dick , cofounder of Right Side Capital Management, an emerging algorithmic early stage “moneyball” venture capital firm. Kevin has two degrees from Stanford and has been a founder of multiple successful tech startups.} …

Breaking: EMC Ventures Executive Shawn Douglass Joins ServiceMesh as CTO

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Changes at EMC Ventures are happening big time. We saw Pat Gelsinger put his stamp on EMC now VMware. Paul Maritz was sitting at EMC ventures cooking up his next “meal” – the Pivotal Initiative. Of course there was the big Nicira …

John Furrier

Latest from John Furrier

Desperately Seeking Flash – Seagate Invests $40 Million in Virident Systems For Joint Flash Solution

Content Silos and the Distribution of Personal Business Intelligence

Opinion: EMC Cisco NetApp – New Reality TV Show — Cisco Not Leaving VCE Anytime Soon

Linksys Group at Cisco Sold to Belkin

Swipp Startup Announces New Social Network For Sharing

Fusion-io Launched New Hyperscale Flash Product to Scale Data Centers for Enterprises, Not Just Facebook

Facebook Launches Social Search – Called Graph Search

Cloud Trends: Can Amazon Shed the Low End Image of Shadow IT in the Enterprise

How Many Angel Investments? This is Moneyball of VC Trend

Breaking: EMC Ventures Executive Shawn Douglass Joins ServiceMesh as CTO

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