John Furrier
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Understanding the Internet of Things marketplace
The Internet of Things has great promise and is transforming businesses overnight. As General Electric Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Immelt put it recently at Dell EMC World, “Yesterday we went to bed an industrial company and today we woke up as a software company.” But with that promise comes great peril as well. Connected ...
Silicon Valley Friday Show podcast: TechTruth fellows chart the future of journalism
This week’s Silicon Valley Friday Show podcast (episode 5), recorded in Houston at the Grace Hopper Celebration in Women in Computing, features young journalists in the TechTruth Fellowship sponsored by SiliconANGLE Media and The GroundTruth Project. The fellows, who produced news stories from the conference and did reporting for upcoming features, are Karis Hustad, Pooja ...
Podcast: analyzing the AWS-VMware deal and much more on the Silicon Valley Friday Show
This week’s podcast Silicon Valley Friday Show (episode 4) drills down on the industry-changing deal between Amazon Web Services and VMware Inc. to bring a viable hybrid cloud solution to the market. Peter Burris and I go deep on what is going on with AWS and VMware. Of course, we also have fun and talk ...
Igneous Systems launches on-premises cloud data service
For all the computing activity that’s moving to the cloud, many companies need to maintain some of their systems and data in their own data centers — either because they’re generating too much to move easily into the cloud or because they don’t want to risk exposing their crown jewels. But they still want all ...
Weekly Review with John Furrier and Peter Burris: Twitter, don’t sell! And can Oracle be a growth stock? #Podcast
Welcome to the new Silicon Valley Friday Show with me – a weekly entertaining look at top stories in Silicon Valley. Join me weekly or subscribe. It has been tons of fun to get our new weekly podcast show called the Silicon Valley Friday Show. We are now on episode No. 3. Show Format: Primarily ...
Analysis of the State of OpenStack – OpenStack Silicon Valley
This week @theCUBE team will be covering the OpenStack community at the annual OpenStack SV event in Mountain View, California. SiliconANGLE Media has research on this topic at Wikibon.com (registration required) for all the latest on OpenStack and the impact of cloud computing. State of OpenStack OpenStack community was going through a period of introspection, ...
IO data center as a platform conference coming Sept. 13 in Menlo Park
I’m excited to share that @theCUBE will be broadcasting live at a special event in Silicon Valley at the Rosewood Hotel in Menlo Park called Data Center as a Platform Conference. The event is an exclusive event for CxOs and IT datacenter managers looking for new ways to manage the growth of datacenter and cloud ...
Clarfication on my comments on Cloudera on theCUBE at #HadoopSummit
I was in Dublin this week broadcasting live on #theCUBE at the Hadoop Summit event. It’s customary that at the end of each day, I and my co-host (Dave Vellante in this case) wrap up each day with an editorial and opinion segment where we summarize, analyze, opine and connect the dots on what we ...
Vonage’s big push at Enterprise Connect 2016 | #EC16
Vonage (Vonage Holdings Corp.), a sponsor for @theCUBE at Enterprise Connect, is putting in a big push for the Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS). The very latest in cloud-based communication services for Enterprise will be showcased at the Enterprise Connect show next week in Orlando. “Adoption of UCaaS solutions among large enterprises is expected ...
Collaboration industry in transition at Enterprise Connect #EC16
Enterprise Connect event in Orlando next week will feature some of the biggest names in technology driving the next generation of unified communications. SiliconANGLE Media @theCUBE and Jim Burton’s team at UC Strategies will be extracting the signal from the noise in Orlando next week. One company that will be disrupting the collaboration market is ...