John Furrier
Latest from John Furrier
Ken Olsen Founder Digital Equipment Corp Passes Away
SiliconANGLE has confirmed that Ken Olsen, a pioneer in the computing industry, died yesterday in Indiana. According to the founder of the DEC Alumni group, he has been ill f or the past few months. In a post to DEC Alum the following message has been sent: Dear Digital Family of Friends: It is with ...
Data: The Next Industrial Revolution, with the Cube Live at Strata Conference [Coverage & Commentary]
Next week, Feb 2-3, 2011, SiliconANGLE.com and SiliconANGLE.tv will be broadcasting live at the Strata Conference organized by O’Reilly Media. Strata is a new conference from O’Reilly, focusing on the business and practice of data. According to the Strata site it’s about unprecedented computing power and connectivity are bringing new layers of experience to our ...
Next Big Cloud Trend: The Storage Cloud – Eyes on Nirvanix and a New Storage Tier.
I was reading the posts over on Wikibon today and noticed Dave Vellante (my Cube co-host on #theCube) posted a detailed analysis titled “The Truth About Enterprise Cloud Adoption”. My angle on this is about the hype of cloud moving to reality. Can the Cloud cross the chasm to mainstream production environments? Is Cloud Disruptive ...
VC Funds Below $250m Face Problems
There is a lot of talk about Angels, Super Angels and Venture Capital firms (VCs) these days who are playing the startup field with small sums of money coming from small funds. The majority of those VCs, now stuck in their self propagated ten-year mantra of capital efficiency, have seen average Limited Partner (LP) returns ...
EMC Rolling Strong Breaking Records “Joe Tucci Loves The Cloud Action”
EMC announced today a record breaking 41 total new announcements to a packed house of media in NYC. All the top brass of EMC was in attendance in what was billed as “Record Setting” themed event. EMC didn’t hold back. They announced with big sizzle and grand flair a new refreshed high end and a ...
What Precipitated the 1990’s Dot Com Bubble Burst [by Steve Case]
The founder of AOL Steve Case wrote today on Quora, the Q&A site, great response to the Question: What factors led to the bursting of the Internet bubble of the late 90’s? Here is Steve’s response in its entirety. Steve’s comment has 120 comments as well as 13 other answers from technology insiders. Here is ...
Cloud Startup Nirvanix Taps New Marketing Blood
SiliconAngle has been covering the big data movement like a blanket since last May. It’s all about massive amounts of unstructured data, cloud computing and the confluence of compute, storage, analytics software and game-changing business models. Next week, we’ll be heading down to NYC and then on to London to find out what the big ...
EMC Exec and Former Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman Leaves to Join Greylock
Frank Slootman, the former chief executive of Data Domain, is joining venture firm Greylock partners. It is a somewhat incestuous move, since Greylock backed Data Domain, which was purchased by EMC for $2.4 billion in 2009. Fifteen-year EMC staffer William “BJ” Jenkins replaces Slootman heading up the BRS team. EMC says that Slootman will stay ...
EMC Announcement About Breaking Records – Performance and Management.
We’re headed to London next week to report on, amongst other things, this mystery announcement EMC has been teasing out the last couple of weeks. I’d been personally hearing murmurs that “something big” was coming down the pike for at least two or three weeks – the speculation in the blogosphere has been ratcheting up ...
Power of Data – It’s Here – Groupon Cloudera and EMC Are Showing The Way To The New World
Reid Hoffman and James Slavet wrote a guest post on AOL Techcrunch today rationalizing their very late stage investment in Groupon. Their post is a attempting to be a justification and self promotion of their involvement in Groupon. What was striking to me about the post was the focus on opportunity of data not normal ...