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

EMC Earnings Summary: Up 28% – The Wall Street ANGLE

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

EMC just had their first quarter earnings call, with earnings rising 28%. International sales is attributed for the data storage company’s rise in profit. EMC’s customers seem happy with the products, boosting spending. A string of acquisitions has also flushed investors with …

Breaking News: Dark Clouds – Startup Cirtas Systems Cutting Staff by 75% in Major Pivot

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

I am getting reports that cloud startup Cirtas is cutting almost 75% of their company in what appears to be a major pivot. According to a tweet by Cirtas employee Dave Graham, he tweeted the following: “well, the waiting is over. as …

Preparing for IPO Jive Software Buys Startup Proximal Labs – Forms Big Data Dream Team

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

On the heals of the news that Cloudera is extending their lead in Hadoop, a Cloudera Labs startup gets bought by pre-IPO startup Jive Software. Jive Software, located in Palo Alto California, is announcing a big data technology acquisition of unknown startup …

The Wall Street Angle – Watch Our Wall Street Journal – Week in Review

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

After looking at the demographics of our audience, the types of content sharing, it’s social distribution, and finally based upon requests from our audience, I am introducing an experiment here at SiliconANGLE called the Wall Street Angle or (WSA). This will be …

Facebook Building Their Own DataCenter – Open Source & Programmable Infrastructure

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

Facebook announced that they are building their own datacenter and hardware products from the ground up. This includes building their own servers, storage, and infrastructure that complements their “home grown” approach to their software. Facebook is now scaling around 600 million users …

Cisco Datacenter Cloud MegaLaunch – Bonus: Partner Blog Battle Scorecard Winners and Losers

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

I’ve been reading the coverage of the massive Cisco datacenter cloud sweeping product announcements. It is chock full of details. If you want a quick summary of the announcements here are some great links. The Wikibon Project, the open analyst site, has …

Wall Street Journal Doesn’t Get Facebook, Slams Fusion-io’s IPO, Gets Story Wrong

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

SiliconANGLE sometimes feels a little like Charlie Sheen – “the truth seeker”. Today was one of those days. The Wall Street Journal put out a story that was totally clueless about the technology infrastructure market. Specifically the writer Peter Gallagher of VentureOne’s …

HP On M&A Spree For Big Data – First Up Vertica – All About Information Infrastructure Play – Data

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

HP is on a big M&A buying spree in Big Data or information infrastructure. According to my sources close to HP, they are going to go on a massive buying spree. Great news for startups in the data field which we created …

HP New Strategic Plan – Cloud Meets Big Data, Consumerization of Enterprise

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER15 YEARS AGO

The SiliconANGLE and Wikibon teams are in town this week to go deep and cover HP’s new public unveiling of their strategy. Not only will we cover the news but we’ll go deep. So stay tuned here on SiliconANGLE.com and Wikibon.org for …

John Furrier

Latest from John Furrier

EMC Earnings Summary: Up 28% – The Wall Street ANGLE

Breaking News: Dark Clouds – Startup Cirtas Systems Cutting Staff by 75% in Major Pivot

The Wall Street Angle – Watch Our Wall Street Journal – Week in Review

HP On M&A Spree For Big Data – First Up Vertica – All About Information Infrastructure Play – Data

HP New Strategic Plan – Cloud Meets Big Data, Consumerization of Enterprise

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