John Furrier
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OpenStack is Eating the Enterprise
OpenStack is fast becoming the most important open source project in the industry to unify the growing number of cloud infrastructure vendors. HP’s George Kadifa called OpenStack one of the most important projects to enable a new computing model. The main reason according to HP’s Kadifa is the fact that no one vendor controls the ...
Boston is the New Hot Hunting Grounds for Big Data Understanding
SiliconANGLE @theCUBE is in Boston this week for the #HPBigData2013 Vertica user conference exploring the cutting edge of big data. We also made a visit to MIT to meet the MITIQ team to talk about the expanding and changing role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO). Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Nuance, Microsoft all have presence ...
Microsoft Reorg Steve Ballmer Memo – One Microsoft Is The Theme
Below is the full memo to the Microsoft organization by CEO Steve Ballmer. The press release to public is here. My Angle: Microsoft is admitting defeat in this modern era and is making one big tact to vector in the right direction. My opinion is that this is a good move. Microsoft must commit to this ...
Big Data Player Hortonworks Secures Huge Funding $50 Million To Expand Hadoop Ecosystem
Hortonworks announced a massive funding round led by new investors Tenaya Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group, with participation from our existing investors Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Yahoo!. The new funding injection of $50 million puts Hortonworks in the center of the conversation in the big data space and silences the rumors about any acquisition. ...
Surveillance State: Liberty & Security – Innovation of Technology Should Drive Government Policy – Opportunity
This Prism issue is not a new issue. Remember William Binney, whistleblower and former NSA crypto-mathematician who served in the agency for decades, said the David Petraeus sex scandal was most likely exposed using illegal surveillance of his email. Binney came to national attention earlier this year when he started telling the story of how NSA ...
Prism & NSA Conversations – Lessons Learned from the NSA on Scaling Data Mining Monitoring
With all the conversations around the NSA and Prism monitoring our data it’s important to learn what it takes to mine the massive amounts of data. The Atlantic had a great post on the challenges of technology advancements and how hard it is to apply the policy of getting data on bad actors. To ...
VMware Announces New Public Cloud Hybrid Service – vCloud #vmwarehybrid
SiliconANGLE is covering live the VMware press event where VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and Bill Fathers, SVP GM vCloud, unveiled VMware big push into the public cloud to counter both Openstack and Amazon AWS with a unique enterprise approach called vCloud Hybrid Service, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud operated by VMware. Bill Fathers ...
New York Startup ArchetypeMe Disrupting Publishing – It’s All About Me
The Internet has made it easy for people to find and obtain information they want, but as a side effect it has left us with too much information on our hands. ArchetypeMe, a New York based startup founded by veteran retail entrepreneur Cristina Carlino with former HP CMO Michael Mendenhall, seeks to solve this problem ...
EXCLUSIVE: Fusion-IO New CEO Shane Robison Clears the Air “Company is Not For Sale”
Shane Robison, the newly appointed CEO of Fusion-io, appeared on theCUBE on SiliconANGLE.com at #EMCWorld to clear the air on the rumors swirling around the departure of former CEO David Flynn and CMO Rick White both cofounders. Robison, Fusion-io’s new CEO, discussed the recent events going on with the flash storage giant during a brief ...
Intel New CEO Brian Krzanich Takes Over for Paul Otellini
Intel announced today that the board of directors has unanimously elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer (CEO), succeeding Paul Otellini. Krzanich will assume his new role at the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting on May 16. Intel has been rebooting internally since the market is transforming to lower power processors and low latency ...
