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

SalesForce.com Buys Heroku In Hopes To Be The Platform For Cloud Developers

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

Salesforce.com is plowing further into the cloud market recently announced its purchase of $212 million for Heroku, a cloud platform as a service, (PaaS) for $212 million in cash in an effort to expand into the fast growing social media and mobile …

What Is A Rock Star Founder? Simple Answer: Keep Control After VC Series A

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

Paul Graham just posted one of his articles called “Founder Control”. I was eager to write this post, because as I have said before, the real rock star founders are the ones that can keep control of their company after their VC …

Mobile Advertising Booming – Google Apple & Millennial Media Top 3

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

I read an article from BusinessInsider by Dan Frommer today around the top mobile advertising platforms. We’ve been covering this sector over over a year and a half, years and in that time we have seen AdMob get bought by Google and …

Chrome OS Coming Tomorrow? I Predicted It Two Years Ago

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

Google has a big announcement regarding Chrome planned for tomorrow, and SiliconANGLE will be there taking tons of photos and covering the action. I wrote a post two years ago when Chrome was launched. If my predictions come true, this will be …

VCE – VMware Cisco EMC Joint Venture Showing Traction With Customer Win

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

The joint venture Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition between VMware, Cisco, and EMC is showing some traction. Yesterday, Cisco announced today that NBN Co, the company set up by the federal government to design, build and operate Australia’s wholesale-only, high speed broadband …

SAP VMware Cisco EMC (VCE) – Vblock SAP Excellence Center Lab Day in Silicon Valley

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

I will be visiting the SAP Customer Excellence Center in Silicon Valley to followup on the work that VMware, Cisco, and EMC are doing with their joint venture VCE or VCE Coalition (previously known as Acadia). I’ll be talking to executives and …

Did Hacker Get NetApp Earnings Early? NetApp Earnings Mistake Causes Stock To Plummet on Unauthorized Access

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

NetApp stock was suspended on the Nasdaq after the earnings were released early by some unauthorized access. Normally companies release after the bell, but in NetApp’s case it was suspect because it was released early. It looks like a hacker might have …

$2 Billion Later, EMC Buys Isilon.

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

EMC is buying Isilon to continue it’s position as #1 in storage virtualization. Under terms of the agreement, EMC will pay $33.85 per share in cash in exchange for each share of Isilon for an aggregate purchase price of about $2.25 billion, …

Avaya Goes With QLogic – Convergence Leader QLogic Continues String of Design Wins

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER16 YEARS AGO

QLogic, a leader in the new converged data center, is on a roll with performance leadership ,and now with more design wins. Today, QLogic is announcing a deal with Avaya to team up with the new converged switch on a chip called …

John Furrier

Latest from John Furrier

What Is A Rock Star Founder? Simple Answer: Keep Control After VC Series A

Mobile Advertising Booming – Google Apple & Millennial Media Top 3

Chrome OS Coming Tomorrow? I Predicted It Two Years Ago

Did Hacker Get NetApp Earnings Early? NetApp Earnings Mistake Causes Stock To Plummet on Unauthorized Access

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