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

Cloud Storage Startup Leaders – Box.net for Consumer Nirvanix for Enterprise – Proof in the Customer Uptake

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

We just covered the big IBM cloud announcement yesterday and now more action in cloud storage. In recent months we’ve heard enterprise storage companies rachet up its claims of being a enterprise cloud storage player. These companies are claiming that they are …

IBM Puts Amazon, Google On Notice with Nirvanix OEM Partnership – Cloud Leadership Is About Scale Advantage

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

UPDATE: A Google engineer posted by mistake an internal note to his public Google + account. He slams Google + and Amazon. – Link is here IBM is making their own moves in cloud and they are big moves – see news …

IBM Does Big Deal With Startup Nirvanix – IBM Announces Platform as a Service – SmartCloud Service – Huge Deal For Startup Nirvanix

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

On the heals of the massive Box.net funding and turn down of $600 million buy out from Citrix, IBM is making their own big moves with one of the fastest growing cloud startups: Nirvanix. IBM is launching a platform is a service …

Confirmed: Juniper Networks Lays Off – At Least 300 Gone Amidst Restructuring it’s 3% not 4% of Workforce

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

Update: Juniper did confirm layoffs (see update below). According to Forbes story last week by Eric Savitz titled Juniper: Will Slowing Business Trigger Big Layoffs? Juniper is going to layoff a portion of its staff. The Forbes story reports that Juniper’s performance …

Message to Meg Whitman: How to Boost Public Confidence in HP in 3 Strategic Steps; Extra Credit: Punch Oracle in the Face

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

Dear Meg (and Ray Lane), I wanted to share my near-term recommendations for HP to quickly re-establish its credibility with investors, analysts and large enterprise customers: 1) Fix The Autonomy Deal: First and foremost, activate the termination clause for the recently announced …

Facebook F8 – Welcome to the New LinkedFaceTweet+

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

[This is a guest post by Vanessa Camones, CEO and Founder of theMIX agency, a digital marketing consulting agency. get updates via her FB timeline or tweet @vanessacamones]- JF On the first day of Facebook’s f8 conference in San Francisco, the world’s …

Menlo Ventures Launches $20 Million Early Stage/Talent Fund

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

Shervin Pershevar announced on stage at the AOL TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference that he and Menlo Ventures has started a $20 million fund. The fund will be called the Menlo Talent Fund. Shervin and his team at Menlo Ventures will invest $200,000 …

Freestyle Capital Exploding on The Scene Closes $27m Fund, More Exits Coming

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

Two respected tech entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel officially announced their early-stage VC firm Freestyle Capital. Although Dan Primack of Fortune Term Sheet blog reported that Freestyle’s fund been public for sometime, it appears the Freestyle team wanted to announce exclusively …

SiliconANGLE/Wikibon #1 in Real Time Original Content at VMworld 2011

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

Something hit me today when I was watching the Techcrunch implosion and talking to LinkedIn trying to get SiliconANGLE in their daily news paper feed. SiliconANGLE is #1 in original content at tech events we cover, and is rising fast in the …

John Furrier

Latest from John Furrier

Cloud Storage Startup Leaders – Box.net for Consumer Nirvanix for Enterprise – Proof in the Customer Uptake

Facebook F8 – Welcome to the New LinkedFaceTweet+

Menlo Ventures Launches $20 Million Early Stage/Talent Fund

Freestyle Capital Exploding on The Scene Closes $27m Fund, More Exits Coming

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