John Furrier
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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 ...
EMC VMware X-Factor Launch – Ask Executives Anything (AMA) #TakeTheLeap
EMC and VMware are launching a new focus around VCE called X-Factor. Product launch is virtual so go to EMC.com for the event at 8am pst. This is EMC’s expanded VCE opportunity under the new leader Chad Sakic. SiliconANGLE and CrowdChat have the opportunity for you to have access for one hour the EMC ...
Is Uber the next Webvan? Will Uber go bankrupt?
There was a report yesterday on the price wars between Uber USA LLC and Lyft, Inc. According to Bloomberg, in a price war with rival Lyft, Uber reduced its rates by 10 – 45 percent in 100 cities across North America. Can Uber continue to be darling that represents the cloud, mobile, social generation of ...
Cloud wars: Oracle CEO Mark Hurd’s vision to gain cloud market share
Oracle Corp. is stepping up the volume to educate the world that they are winning the cloud game. Oracle’s CEO, provides a detailed view into the future of Oracle’s overarching business strategy which centers around cloud computing across Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and how Oracle is highly differentiated and investing heavily in these ...
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd #CubeCards
Here is a collection of #CubeCards from my exclusive sit down with Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. #CubeCards – Pictures can tell a thousand words.
