John Furrier

John Furrier is founder, co-CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of SiliconANGLE Media, 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 with his wife and four children.

Latest from John Furrier

A vision for AI and the future: How Boldstart Ventures seeks to fund the next wave of enterprise innovation

The stage is set for a wealth creation cycle that we have never seen before. The roles played by data and AI highlight the instant use cases of a generational shift in how things are produced and consumed. Power dynamics are shifting to the founders of exciting new startups that are well-positioned to take advantage ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE BATTLE FOR AI SUPREMACY

Exclusive Q&A: Ahead of re:Invent, AWS chief Adam Selipsky lays out a broad AI strategy

As Amazon Web Services Chief Executive Adam Selipsky prepares for his third re:Invent conference, it’s no surprise that artificial intelligence dominates his thinking. AWS needs a big boost given all the competition lately from the likes of Microsoft Corp., Google LLC and a raft of smaller clouds latching onto generative AI. Meanwhile, growth at Amazon.com ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE BATTLE FOR AI SUPREMACY

A re:Invent exclusive: AWS CEO Adam Selipsky to reveal a new generative AI stack

As the rush to generative artificial intelligence only gains more momentum every day, Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Adam Selipsky think there’s one core capability to ensure it fulfills its promise: adaptability. “With all of the different directions that generative AI, and AI, are going to go in, the key characteristic that people need ...
ANALYSIS

Analysis: Amazon earnings show AWS’ importance, but it needs more gen AI production workloads

Amazon.com Inc.’s third-quarter earnings demonstrate its Amazon Web Services Inc. unit’s financial strength and its role as a cornerstone for Amazon’s overall financial health. Key results were more on the cost-cutting side than the revenue side. Generative artificial intelligence is the big focus. Because of the late entry into the generative AI marketing war and ...

MongoDB unveils data encryption tech for developers to boost data privacy and compliance

MongoDB today announced at its developer conference MongoDB.local Chicago the general availability of Queryable Encryption, which it says is a first-of-its-kind technology that helps organizations protect sensitive data when it is queried and in-use on MongoDB.  As data volumes skyrocket, so do the intricacies of modern applications. Coupled with growing regulatory demands, companies face a ...

AWS appoints Raejeanne Skillern as new chief marketing officer

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the hiring of Raejeanne Skillern as its new vice president and chief marketing officer. As the new AWS CMO, Skillern brings a wealth of industry experience and a proven track record of success, which will be instrumental in driving AWS’s marketing strategy forward. The news, sourced from an internal ...

Exclusive: MongoDB foresees AI-powered future as it navigates shifting software development landscape

Following a stellar first-quarter earnings performance, MongoDB Inc., the forerunner in the database platform domain, prepares for its global conference tour with MongoDB.local NYC this week. I had a chance to chat with MongoDB Chief Executive Dev Ittycheria (pictured) and Andrew Davidson, its senior vice president of products, in advance of this week’s conference to ...

Exclusive Q&A: MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on empowering developers and how AWS is changing

I had a chance to sit down for an exclusive conversation with the Dev Ittycheria, chief executive of MongoDB Inc., ahead of Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, where SiliconANGLE and its video studio theCUBE will be providing wall-to-cloud coverage of the event. We talked about how much AWS is changing and the role the partners ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky: The cloud is about to reinvent corporate cultures

On the surface, the timing of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week doesn’t seem ideal — but AWS Chief Executive Adam Selipsky doesn’t seem too worried. The event is always a relentlessly upbeat gathering, but this year Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit is facing, well, a lot of storm ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT

AWS chief Adam Selipsky hints at the next-gen cloud

What’s going on at Amazon Web Services these days? What’s with the new CEO? What will we hear at re:Invent this year? I get these questions a lot these days, so recently I sat down with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at his office in Seattle to talk about its business, his vision, the new focus, ...