John Furrier
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Recognizing the layers of critical insight data offers
Data is an interesting concept. At a recent CrowdChat #RealDataStories, a crowdsourced conversation which inspired this awesome blog post by Joseph George and Leo Leung, instantly created a dialog about the changing server based storage, big data, emerging technology and customer needs. Then the topic developed into a forum on data and its inherent qualities. This notion of Data ...
Big Data Week #bigdataSV and #strataconf conversations
Thought leaders are talking about the news, trends, and other stories as SiliconANGLE Media kicks off #bigdataweek in Silicon Valley for #BigDataSV in conjunction with #strataconf #hadoopworld. The Big Data market is moving into an exciting new phase. The early Big Data meme was all about data storage and processing technologies such as ...
Jack Dorsey goes crowd storming with epic tweet stream #Twitter #CrowdChat
Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter, went on an awesome Twitter broadcast today to the crowd. He was making a statement on status of Twitter as a company. More impressive was his conviction for the company’s mission and contribution the management team is delivering. I believe that the team has it right with ...
VMware Google Partner in Hybrid Cloud Deal
VMware announced a new partnership with Google that will allow Google Cloud Platform services to run on VMware’s vCloud Air. This means that existing vCloud Air customers will now have access to the Google Cloud Platform under their existing service contract with vCloud Air. There will be additional fees for usage vCloud Air customer will pay ...
EMC Earnings Beat Analyst Estimates; Revenue Down Slightly
EMC (NYSE: EMC) reported Q4 EPS of $0.69, beating analyst estimates of $0.68. Revenue for the quarter came in at $7.05 billion versus the consensus estimate of $7.1 billion. Industry executives all agree that lots of the services that exist today are useful technologies, but are not new. There’s still a lot of opportunity to find ...
New VC ventureLab hopes to create a better model for global startups; the secret: a fast path to revenues
Smart investors are looking to international markets for both investing and expanding businesses. Now gaining some interest in the startup world. While VC’s are on track to set a five year record on investing internationally, several notable Silicon Valley VC’s have announced expanded investment overseas. Recently, Ernst & Young reports that two thirds of global ...
Microsoft buys Revolution Analytics increasing momentum for popular R programming language
Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, the world’s most widely used programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics. R has been popularized by the growing data science community, for whom it has become the defacto standard. The deal is important not just for Microsoft ...
#GreenCloud Big Data & Efficiency Driving Sustainability in the data center and cloud with insights into efficiency.
Big data & efficiency is driving efficiency in the data center. Scott Raynovich is holding a crowdsourced conversation on the topic. Here is the crowd in action. Topic: How Big Data can drive sustainability in the data center and cloud with insights into efficiency.
Illumio emerges from stealth with Adaptive Security Platform
Illumio, the much anticipated virtualization security startup emerged from stealth mode today to show off its Adaptive Security Platform to address the massive data center transformation to the cloud. The bottleneck in this transformation is security. This company claimed its new adaptive security model is a first-of-its-kind solution that provides granular visibility and security across ...
Live: The Open Social Enterprise #TEDatIBM CrowdChat
IBM is having a live crowd conversation 10am PST today. Come join the crowd from Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook users for a unified conversation on the hashtag #TEDatIBM as pre-event conversation about the open social enterprise. Thought leaders are discussing the mega trend as social media shift to social business. Live crowd conversation on CrowdChat.net/TEDatIBM ...