John Furrier
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Cisco Might Have Big Issues – Rip & Replace Verses Incremental Improvement
Let me get this out of the way. I have been a big fan of Cisco for many years. I have friends who work there and have friends who have sold companies to Cisco. I admired Cisco’s leadership in the Web 1.0. Recently, I’ve been down on Cisco for their strategy of locking infrastructure in ...
Big Data Clouds Are Here – EMC Acquires Greenplum A Move To Counter Oracle
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world’s leading provider of information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Greenplum, Inc. Greenplum is a privately-held, fast-growing provider of disruptive data warehousing technology, a key enabler of "big data" clouds and self-service analytics. Upon completion of the acquisition, Greenplum will form the ...
Skype Massive Expansion In Silicon Valley – Plans to Build Out More Innovation
Skype CEO Josh Silverman announces today in a blog post that Skype is coming to Silicon Valley. My town of Palo Alto will be their location of their new Silicon Valley office. According to Skype, the operations will be in Palo Alto at Stanford University where Skype signed a lease for 90,000 square foot facility. ...
HP Palm Analysis: HP Finalized Palm Acqusition – It’s All About SmartPhones and Edge Devices
Today, HP today announced it has completed its acquisition of Palm Inc. at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash. Back in March SiliconAngle was the first to accurately report that HP would be buying Palm. We have been covering this story from that point forward. HP then went out ...
Foursquare Kisses All The Frogs And The Rise of Andreeseen Horowitz – A Venture Story
Foursquare just announced that they have secured $20 million in additional financing at a $95 million valuation, with Silicon Valley’s Andreessen Horowitz leading the new investment. Also stepping up in the round is previous investors Union Square Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Kara Swisher has been tracking this development over the past few months. Kara ...
The New Service Providers Are Corporate Enterprises – Cloudera Goes Commercial For Enterprises
Hello Enterprise 2.0 World!! Mark the calendar – today the enterprise is moving to be the next service provider for consumers – the business user or worker. The biggest and fastest growing trend we are monitoring here on SiliconANGLE is the new Enterprise 2.0 around “converged infrastructure” meets “virtualization and cloud computing” – driving all ...
Cisco & Brocade Get the Smackdown: HP Selects QLogic for FCoE Switch Technology
Wow!! the HP Cisco war that we were the first to report is showing some movement and shaking up the pecking order of the industry. Just earlier in the week HP announced the new Virtual Connect Flex Fabric architecture and now they are announcing a big convergence innovation with emerging datacenter brand QLogic. HP and ...
Datacenters Are Cloudy – A New Network Infrastructure Model
The fundamental nature of data center computing is rapidly changing. The traditional model of separately provisioned and maintained server, storage, and network resources are constraining data center agility and increasing the operational budgets and killing budgets required to change and grow. It’s a big problem when you have static pools of isolated resources dedicated for ...
Cloud Predictions: My Chat With Tom Roloff EMC Senior VP Consulting
Tomorrow I’ll be at the GigaOm Structure 10 cloud event and I’ll see Tom Roloff who will be speaking there. Tom is a great guy but very much on top of one of the biggest trends – IT and Cloud convergence. I sat down and talked with Tom Roloff at EMC World. We had a ...
Mobile Action: Apple 3m iPads <3 months & Skype Gets Smart Launches SkypeKit For Developers
Big news today is that Apple announced that they have sold over 3 million iPads in only 80 days after its introduction in the US. Even more impressive is that Apple just this month started selling iPads outside the US. Apple keeps blowing away the iPad estimates. I wrote about how all of this cloud ...
