Maria Deutscher

Maria Deutscher is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering all things enterprise and fresh. Her work takes her from the bowels of the corporate network up to the great free ranges of the open-source ecosystem and back on a daily basis, with the occasional pit stop in the world of end-users. She is especially passionate about cloud computing and data analytics, although she also has a soft spot for stories that diverge from the beaten track to provide a more unique perspective on the complexities of the industry.

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Attunity marketing boss: Hadoop moving into the mainstream | #BigDataNYC

The burgeoning analytics ecosystem is at an important crossroads, not only in terms of the strategic shift towards the cloud among the top Hadoop distributors but also – and more importantly – in user adoption, according to Attunity Inc. marketing head Lawrence Schwartz. The executive from the respected enterprise data management vendor returned to theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recently ...

Docker beefs up security in nod to enterprise developers

Docker Inc. is rolling out a new version of its namesake container engine that brings security to the fore for the first time since the project hit the scene a year and a half ago. Perhaps not coincidently, the launch follows hot on the heels of the startup teaming up with Microsoft Corp. to make ...

Hortonworks adds object storage and spiffier query language to Hadoop

Hot on the heels of Cloudera Inc. upgrading its version of the batch processing framework, rival Hortonworks Inc. is following suite with a new version of its own distribution that focuses on many of the same core areas as its better-funded competitor. The new release of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) places the emphasis not ...

Cray unveils Hadoop supercomputer in surprising marriage of old and new

Bucking the notion that Hadoop has to be run on off-the-shelf commodity servers, supercomputer maker Cray, Inc. surprised attendees at the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 summit with the introduction of an integrated high-performance computing appliance built specifically to run the batch analytics framework. The launch of the Urika-XA follows months of testing with ...

HP extends OpenStack support to disaster recovery

Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday unveiled a series of enhancements to the disaster recovery component of its OpenStack-powered public cloud portfolio that are designed to make it easier for organizations to protect data stored on some of their less accessible – but nonetheless critical – systems. The Helion Continuity Services bundle can help cut between 15 and 50 ...

Microsoft continues open source love affair with Apache Storm endorsement

Microsoft Corp., the poster child of proprietary software, has developed a sudden appetite for open-source technologies. Barely three days after revealing plans to make future versions of Windows Server compatible with the Docker container engine, which currently only runs on Linux, the Redmond giant is rolling out support for Apache Storm for its Azure infrastructure-as-a-service platform. ...

Loggly raises $15 million to take the fight against Splunk up the stack

Analytics startup Loggly Inc. has raised another $15 million from a group of top investors to beat Splunk Inc. at its own game with a higher-level approach to uncovering useful patterns in the vast amounts of data coming off of technology infrastructure and applications. At the center of the ambitious effort is Dynamic Field Explorer, ...

Red Hat and Cloudera join forces for Hadoop-on-OpenStack

Red Hat Inc. and Cloudera Inc. are teaming up to make it more practical for organizations to deploy Hadoop on OpenStack in a landmark partnership that takes advantage of the new capabilities included in the latest version of the open-source cloud operating system. Dubbed “Juno” and officially introduced this morning, the tenth release of OpenStack ...

Broadcom leaves Internet of Things group it helped found

Broadcom Inc. has quietly left a key industry consortium that is trying to bring much needed communications standards to the connected universe in what marks the first major setback on the long and predictably bumpy road toward universal interoperability. Broadcom was one of the six vendors that helped launch the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) in July ...

Attunity takes aim at Syncsort with Hadoop replication tool

Attunity Ltd. is using the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 in New York this week to pull the curtains back on a new release of its core replication software that promises to make it easier than ever to pull legacy data into the batch analytics platform. Data migration is shaping up to be a major ...