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

Breaking: Hadoop Community Votes To Upgrade Hadoop Core with YARN

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

The Hadoop community voted last night to upgrade the core Hadoop software by upgrading YARN to a full blown Apache sub-project for Hadoop along with HDFS and MapReduce. Hadoop YARN is basically MapReduce upgrade in an attempt to take Apache Hadoop beyond …

Dear Mark Zuckerberg Open Letter Slam By Young and Up & Coming Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Dalton Caldwell @DaltonC is the founder of App.net, a social platform that is pivoting after Facebook offered to buy it or kill it. Dalton is the creator of imeem, a social music site that was acquired by MySpace. I first met Dalton seven …

Breaking Analysis: Google Acquires Wildfire – Who Says Social Media Bubble is Popping

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Google announced that it is acquiring Wildfire a social media infrastructure provider. Google’s product manager Jason Miller says that social presence can complement all marketing campaigns—search, display, video, mobile, offline ads and more. Note: Conversation on @techmeme is taking place. Here is …

Breaking: Analysis: VMware Buys Nicira For $1.26B in Cash

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Big news in what SiliconANGLE has been calling the biggest disruption in generations – Converged Infrastructure. VMware is buying privately held Nicira Inc for about $1.26B in cash to expand its network virtualization portfolio. The deal is expected to close in …

DeveloperANGLE: AllThingsHadoop Podcast with Cube Alum Arun Murthy on Hadoop

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

The allthingshadoop blog had a great podcast and blog post with Hortonworks cofounder Arun Murthy, a SiliconANGLE.tv Cube Alum. Here is the podcast: Episode #8 of the Podcast is a talk with Arun C. Murthy. Main areas they talked about — Hortonworks HDP1, the first release from Hortonworks, Apache …

Industry Analysts Got It Wrong on VMware CEO Transition From Paul Maritz to Pat Gelsinger

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

I’ve been covering and watching the (mostly negative) commentary over the last couple of days about the change in leadership at VMware from other blogs and specifically the analyst sector. I really have to wonder, who are these so called experts? Do they …

Paul Maritz Out as CEO – Pat Gelsinger in CEO of VMware – Video: What Pat Gelsinger Would Do At VMware

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Update: Here is what I’ve confirmed so far: 1) Maritz was not ousted as CEO and this was his decision according to sources close to Maritz, and 2) Maritz will not be the CEO of any spin out. The story is now …

Developers: The Hubris of Front End Developers

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

I ran into a good post that was talking about the hottest trend in tech developer world. Wooing front end developers. The post I am referring to was written by Allan Cheung a front end developer at Square. A colleague pointed me …

Startup Police Blotter: Betaworks Steals Digg for $500k – Digg Sells for Pennies on the Dollar

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Betaworks should be on today’s police blotter under Grand Theft Startup. Wall Street Journal is reporting that the New York based incubator Betaworks has agreed to buy news-sharing website Digg in what is looking like a yard sale for $500,000. Here is …

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Latest from John Furrier

Breaking: Hadoop Community Votes To Upgrade Hadoop Core with YARN

Dear Mark Zuckerberg Open Letter Slam By Young and Up & Coming Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell

Breaking Analysis: Google Acquires Wildfire – Who Says Social Media Bubble is Popping

Breaking: Analysis: VMware Buys Nicira For $1.26B in Cash

DeveloperANGLE: AllThingsHadoop Podcast with Cube Alum Arun Murthy on Hadoop

Industry Analysts Got It Wrong on VMware CEO Transition From Paul Maritz to Pat Gelsinger

Paul Maritz Out as CEO – Pat Gelsinger in CEO of VMware – Video: What Pat Gelsinger Would Do At VMware

Developers: The Hubris of Front End Developers

Startup Police Blotter: Betaworks Steals Digg for $500k – Digg Sells for Pennies on the Dollar

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