John Furrier, Author at SiliconANGLE

Infra

Looking to boost revenue growth, Veritas hires Oracle senior executive Scott Genereux

By John Furrier Feb 17, 2017

Veritas Technologies is getting serious about expanding into the converged infrastructure market, and there’s no more obvious sign than a key hire it made earlier this month. The company announced it has hired away Scott Genereux,…

Emerging Tech

Meet the creator of Trump and Dump, a bot that shorts Trump’s corporate targets

By John Furrier Feb 10, 2017

Companies are often losing millions or billions of dollars in market value when President Trump slams them in a tweet. Now, one company has found a way to make a profit on Trump-related stock…

Infra

Battling Dell EMC, HPE buys ‘hyperconverged’ system startup SimpliVity for $650 million

By John Furrier Jan 17, 2017

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced it will pay $650 million in cash to acquire SimpliVity Corp., a provider of unified server and storage hardware and software for corporate data centers. Known in the…

Featured People

Silicon Valley Friday Show: VC Ashmeet Sidana talks AWS, entrepreneurs and what’s coming in 2017

By John Furrier Dec 10, 2016

Entrepreneurs are driving an ever-faster pace of innovation in information technology, and the venture capital industry is scrambling to change its investing algorithm in an effort to keep up. That was a key theme…

Cloud

The next hills for Amazon Web Services: AI and the Internet of Things

By John Furrier Dec 1, 2016

When Amazon Web Services Chief Executive Andy Jassy showed off a raft of new products and services Wednesday, including a big semi truck that carries a device that can store 100 petabytes of data,…

Cloud

How Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy manages at cloud scale

By John Furrier Nov 30, 2016

In pioneering the market for cloud computing a decade ago, Andy Jassy, now chief executive of Amazon Web Services, also had to pioneer some new ways of managing. After all, Amazon.com itself was running…

Cloud

CEO Andy Jassy: How Amazon Web Services won the cloud – and what’s coming next

By John Furrier Nov 29, 2016

Not too many years ago, Peter Burris, head of research for the analyst group Wikibon, recalls being in a room full of chief information officers. They were all giggling about Amazon.com Inc.’s attempt to…

Cloud

Kubernetes pioneers raise $8.5 million in bid to make containers enterprise-ready

By John Furrier Nov 17, 2016

Former Google Cloud executive and Craig McLuckie is teaming up Kubernetes pioneer Joe Beda to launch Heptio Inc. with a goal of making software containers mainstream in the enterprise. McLuckie (above) will be chief executive…

NEWS

Podcast: analyzing the Trump election results on the Silicon Valley Friday Show

By John Furrier Nov 12, 2016

In my weekly podcast this week, the Silicon Valley Friday Show, we had as featured guests Tom Joyce, a former executive with EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. and Dell, and Bullpen Capital founder Paul Martino,…

NEWS

Understanding the Internet of Things marketplace

By John Furrier Oct 25, 2016

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…

John Furrier

Looking to boost revenue growth, Veritas hires Oracle senior executive Scott Genereux

Meet the creator of Trump and Dump, a bot that shorts Trump’s corporate targets

Battling Dell EMC, HPE buys ‘hyperconverged’ system startup SimpliVity for $650 million

Silicon Valley Friday Show: VC Ashmeet Sidana talks AWS, entrepreneurs and what’s coming in 2017

Podcast: analyzing the Trump election results on the Silicon Valley Friday Show

Understanding the Internet of Things marketplace

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