Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
What you missed in Cloud: Insight-as-a-service
The world’s top public clouds are able to accommodate as much data as an organization can throw at them, but that scalability often proves a double-edged sword when it comes to controlling costs. That challenge that returned to the fore last week after Komprise Inc. raised $6 million in funding to address the lack of visibility ...
VMware targets new DevOps tools at Docker
Alongside the fresh-faced startups showcasing their wares at DockerCon 2015 this morning is VMware Inc. with two new tools aimed at helping developers take better advantage of the wildly popular containerization engine in their projects. Or in the case of the first addition, provide the environment for running those projects. The aptly-named AppCatalyst is a ...
What you missed in Big Data: Optimized knowledge
Machine learning returned to the center of attention last week for the second time in a row after a little-known startup called SigOpt Inc. raised $2 million in funding from two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors to put a horizontal twist on the technology. Its namesake engine promises to automate the tedious process of ...
Open-source momentum: Red Hat sees revenue spike 23 percent in first quarter
While the proprietary giants of the enterprise are either struggling to shore up declining revenue streams or trying to shift towards a more open business model, Red Hat Inc. is cruising ahead at a comfortable double-digital growth rate that reached 14 percent in the first quarter. That helped its revenue in the three-month period pass the $481 million ...
Tamr raises $25.2 million from HP and friends for its data lake antithesis
Hewlett-Packard is among the main proponents of creating so-called data lakes in the enterprise to consolidate disparate records for more efficient analysis, but that hasn’t stopped its investment arm from backing an emerging startup called Tamr Inc. that’s trying to sell CIOs on the exact opposite approach. Instead of centralizing the information itself, its namesake ...
The container front heats up as EMC throws its weight behind Flocker
Somewhat atypically for an open-source project, the first major release of Flocker is rolling out without bringing any major new capabilities to the table. But the update includes something of arguably much greater significance for the long-term prospects of the volume management tool: the support of the world’s top storage vendor. Flocker 1.0 adds integration with two of EMC’s ...
Identity manager anchors VMware’s mobility strategy
Virtualization kingpin VMware, Inc. on Tuesday laid out its enterprise mobile vision, roadmap and partnerships for what VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger calls “business mobility.” “The IT environment is about bridging two worlds of cloud and the local client/server environments to enable business mobility as a new model of IT,” said Gelsinger in an event held at ...
Cohesity exits stealth with $70 million to converge secondary storage
Serial entrepreneur Mohit Aron is marking another milestone along his long career this morning following his newest startup’s launch from stealth to change how organizations manage the passive data taking up much of their storage capacity. Its plan for accomplishing that borrows a page straight from the book of the founder’s previous venture. Nutanix Inc., which Aron established ...
Vera launches metadata kill switch for Office 365
Securing the growing volumes of data that employees keep in cloud-based services such as Office 365 has emerged as one of the greatest challenges for CIOs, but it still pales in comparison to the difficulty of protecting those documents once they move elsewhere from there. That’s the problem Vera Inc. has now set its eyes ...
Vertical focus: MapR launches new specialized analytic workflows for Spark
The latest entry into the effort to simplify large-scale analytics has come from MapR Technologies Inc. in the form of new templates designed to automate the implementation of three key emerging use cases for Spark. The release tops off a tremendous show of support for the open-source data crunching engine in recent days. The biggest ...
