John Furrier, Author at SiliconANGLE

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What is Higgs Boson? A Breakthrough in Physics and Science – The Physics Nerd Holy Grail Found

By John Furrier Jul 4, 2012

In the science and physics world “The Holy Grail” was found today July 4th. The Higgs Boson The science world is a buzz over the discovery from CERN, Europe’s main particle-physics lab, of what is…

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Apple iPad Mini Coming Soon – Apple #Winning Against the Awesome Android Nexus 7 Tablet

By John Furrier Jul 3, 2012

According to a Bloomberg report, Apple is planning on putting out a smaller iPad called the iPad Mini that will compete with the new Nexus Tablet 7 inch tablet. Which has been getting great…

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The Father of SpringSource Rod Johnson Quits VMware

By John Furrier Jul 3, 2012

Rod Johnson is leaving VMware. Rod is known as the father of Spring and is also a SiliconANGLE.tv theCUBE alum. Rod wrote his goodbye in a blog post on springsource.org (full post embedded below).…

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Video: Steve Jobs on Failure – Most People Never Ask For Help

By John Furrier Jul 3, 2012

As an entrepreneur I’ve been most successful when I ask for help and not being afraid to fail. Best startup advice – create action!! Watch this footage of Steve Jobs: Key takeaway: don’t be…

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Amazon Explains Their Public Cloud Failure – Outage Causes Outrage

By John Furrier Jul 2, 2012

According to the Wall Street Journal late today, Amazon has come clean with a response to their severe outage of the AWS public cloud infrastructure fail that crippled and took out Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, and…

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VMware Acquiring DynamicOps To Up the Cloud Game – Price > $100m

By John Furrier Jul 2, 2012

VMware buys multi-cloud manager DynamicOps, a Burlington, Mass developer of software that handles the provisioning and managing of resources for cloud services. Amount was for an undisclosed sum. Rumblings on Twitter say it’s well…

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Play by Play & Commentary: Amazon AWS Outage Shows Public Cloud Warts – Boost for Private Cloud

By John Furrier Jul 2, 2012

Last week an Amazon data center went down due to a storm on the east coast. As Forbes reports “Amazon’s Cloud service is having a bad a couple weeks. For the second time in…

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Confirmation: Dell Buys Quest Software for $2.4 Billion To Boost Services

By John Furrier Jul 2, 2012

Dell Computer confirmed that they are buying Quest Software, IT management software provider, for $2.4 billion. According to Dell release Dell recently announced the formation of its Software Group to build upon its existing software…

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Apple’s $95 million Android Wet Blanket

By John Furrier Jun 30, 2012

Apple just put up $95 million as a bond on their condition of a pre-trial injuction against Samsung (Google). Apple will do anything to stop the massive momentum of Google Android. The case…

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Microsoft Azure Cloud: Can They Compete with Google Compute Engine in a World of Cloud and Big Data

By John Furrier Jun 29, 2012

With the sweeping global tech impact of social, mobile, big data and cloud, it’s becoming rather clear that Google is poised to rock the cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market while Microsoft is…

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What is Higgs Boson? A Breakthrough in Physics and Science – The Physics Nerd Holy Grail Found

Apple iPad Mini Coming Soon – Apple #Winning Against the Awesome Android Nexus 7 Tablet

Video: Steve Jobs on Failure – Most People Never Ask For Help

Apple’s $95 million Android Wet Blanket

Microsoft Azure Cloud: Can They Compete with Google Compute Engine in a World of Cloud and Big Data

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