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.

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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 ...

Tableau #Data14 CrowdChat Conversations

Tableau #Data14 conference CrowdChat transcript.

CrowdChat Example of Engagement Container Technology

This is an example of the embedded application of our new “engagement container” technology in action. All updates from CrowdChat.net/HybridITfiles is happening anywhere the container is embedded. What Influencers and Users Are Saying About CrowdChat Ray Wang puts it all together in this interview with me on the innovation of crowdchat – crowd activated content Dan ...

Social Media Chat – Are Brands Always On? #SocBizChat

Great CrowdChat today on the question of: Is Your Brand Always On? Think like a media company. Learn how businesses are developing successful brand strategies.    

IBM Social CrowdChat on #BigData #TEDatIBM

IBM hosted a live CrowdChat on #TEDatIBM – crowdsourced conversation about Big Data. It was a 1-hour “content jam” with passionate thought leaders and social users interested in the intersection of social and data. Top Conversations in the Crowd The top discussion threads with the most engagement as voted by the crowd was: “How can ...

Microsoft Lays Off 14% of Company #NokiaFail

In possibly the most awkward moment in the company’s history, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella dropped the bomb (formal memo) to employees: The company will fire 14 percent of its employees, or roughly 18,000 people.  Microsoft’s employee base skyrocketed over the years to more than 127,000 people after the Nokia acquisition.  It’s mainly the Nokia employees who ...

CrowdChat with EMC VMAX Senior Managers #VMAX3

Holding a CrowdChat with senior EMC leaders in storage – VMAX to the Power of 3. Ask Brian Gallagher, Fidelma Russo, & Barry Burke anything about the new VMAX platform.

CrowdChat #DOES14 #Devops

I am hosting a CrowdChat with Steve Brodie and Gene Kim to promote DevOps Enterprise: The Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps Transformation Summit, October 21-23, 2014, in Burlingame, CA.

Anonymous social network Secret raises $25 Million

Secret, a mobile-first social network that allows people to share their personal thoughts and beliefs with others anonymously, raised $25 million in a second round of funding that values the company at $100 million and positions it to take on mainstream social networks. Secret also said it would add Facebook integration to enable members to find ...