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.

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In Memory of Aaron Swartz: Take a Step Back – The Aaron Swartz Raw Nerve Essays

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

To understand Aaron Swartz is to read his last few essays. I found Aaron Swartz’s series of essays called RawNerve. I am reposting his first entry called Take a step back which this repost of his original post that introduced the his …

Aaron Greenspan is Creating Aaron Swartz Memorial Grants

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Death of Aaron Swartz is causing outpouring of feelings (see story) never seen in decades and even the family is establishing foul play (see story). Now we are seeing financial support from the community of internet citizens. Aaron Greenspan, the entrepreneur and …

Family of Reddit Cofounder Aaron Swartz Says Massachusetts and MIT Contributed to his Death

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

The family of Internet freedom fighter and social activist hero Aaron Swartz put out an official statement. Our beloved brother, son, friend, and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his Brooklyn apartment. We are in shock, and have not yet …

Cofounder of Reddit and Internet Freedom Fighter Commits Suicide After Hacking MIT – The Net Mourns

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit and online activist, hangs himself in New York City last night. At the moment the Internet community is having a virtual wake. Aaron was a young star in the tech community who was known for doing the …

Big Data Alert: Hadoop Summit 2013 Registration Now Opens

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Hadoop Summit 2013 (hadoopsummit.org) registration now open. This year Hadoop Summit will continue to focus on the technology innovation driving the business of Big Data. SiliconANGLE Wikibon will be live streaming again with theCUBE. Here are the videos from Hadoop Summit 2012 …

IBM Services Chief Steps Down As Rivalries Ramp Up

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Mike Daniels, an executive who played a prominent role in IBM’s services strategy and came very close to becoming the company’s CEO in 2011, has left the company. The Register reports that he has retired. Daniels, who joined Big Blue in the 70s’ …

ActiveVideo Networks CloudTV – Next Gen TV User Experience? Cloud & Social Going CloudTV

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

With all the buzz about social TV and cloud based Software-led Infrastrcture (SLI), it’s a no brainer that TV is going to the cloud. Just look at Netflix. A startup is talking next generation TV in the cloud. The company is ActiveVideo …

DataCenterANGLE: Data Center Availability & Safety – Future Requirements

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

{Guest Post: This is a guest post by datacenter executive Mark Thiele, founder of Datacenterpulse.org and EVP of Switch. Mark is a practitioner and thought leader in the datacenter and cloud marketplace.} Is it safe to build a data center anywhere along the …

Samsung Comes To Silicon Valley Big Time

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Samsung is coming to Silicon Valley in a big way to try to stay a leader in the consumer electronics game. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, is investing in Silicon Valley by expanding their existing R&D centers and establishing new innovation centers in …

Breaking Analysis: Software Defined Networking OpenFlow is positioned to succeed in 2013

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

By Steve Noble, Principle of Router Analysis We open this final post on the State of OpenFlow 2012 testing with a very specific statement: OpenFlow is positioned to succeed in 2013. The final report, which should be out early to mid January will …

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Latest from John Furrier

In Memory of Aaron Swartz: Take a Step Back – The Aaron Swartz Raw Nerve Essays

Aaron Greenspan is Creating Aaron Swartz Memorial Grants

Family of Reddit Cofounder Aaron Swartz Says Massachusetts and MIT Contributed to his Death

Cofounder of Reddit and Internet Freedom Fighter Commits Suicide After Hacking MIT – The Net Mourns

Big Data Alert: Hadoop Summit 2013 Registration Now Opens

IBM Services Chief Steps Down As Rivalries Ramp Up

ActiveVideo Networks CloudTV – Next Gen TV User Experience? Cloud & Social Going CloudTV

DataCenterANGLE: Data Center Availability & Safety – Future Requirements

Samsung Comes To Silicon Valley Big Time

Breaking Analysis: Software Defined Networking OpenFlow is positioned to succeed in 2013

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