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.

Latest from Maria Deutscher

Private infrastructure is the cornerstone of hybrid computing, says EMC cloud chief | #EMCworld

Over the last few years, EMC World has evolved from just another storage show to a well-rounded industry event that not only focuses on the company itself but its partners and the key trends shaping the broader market as well. The main theme at this year’s conference, which took place earlier this month in Las ...

HP’s $1BN cloud push spawns hybrid platform for high-risk government data

Although Hewlett-Packard’s pledge to invest $1 billion in cloud services came two months after Cisco’s, a move that was itself a response to a similar commitment made by IBM back in January, it’s already lapping ahead in the hybrid computing race. The hardware maker hopes to press its advantage with a new platform aimed at ...

Data efficiency is the ultimate differentiator in storage, says Permabit CEO | #IBMedge

The exponential growth of unstructured information within the enterprise is not only driving demand for storage capacity but also putting increased pressure on IT organizations to make more out of their infrastructure, a  challenge that Tom Cook, the CEO of deduplication specialist Permabit, says is shifting the competitive focus to software.  He stopped by theCUBE ...

What you missed in Cloud: Analytics-as-a-Service model continues momentum

Following their users’ lead, on-premise software vendors are moving en masse to the cloud, shifting their entire revenue streams in the process. As one of the world’s largest and most entranced business intelligence providers, SAP faces a tougher task than most. The firm boasts a uniquely broad portfolio that it had spent decades and tens ...

What you missed in Big Data: Artificial intelligence meets personalized content

Rising consumer expectations for personalized and timely content is driving marketers to abandon traditional methodologies in favor of new data-driven approaches to providing tailored experiences. Artificial intelligence is emerging as an increasingly popular means of accomplishing that, with an entire array of vendors both big and small currently working to productize the technology for the ...

Converged infrastructure: Balancing standardization + flexibility  | #EMCworld

There’s far more to converged infrastructure than just bundling individual hardware components together, according to Gary Garcia, the director of global solutions marketing for EMC’s VSPEX line of pre-integrated reference architectures. Appearing on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the storage stalwart’s recently concluded customer show in Las Vegas, he made it clear that the focus lies much ...

MongoDB joins forces with Bosch to develop data-driven apps for the Internet of Things

The flood of machine-generated data from the Internet of Things is one of the primary drivers behind the accelerating adoption of non-relational systems touted as both flexible and scalable enough to keep pace with the explosion in connected devices. MongoDB, the company behind the popular open source document store of the same, is riding the ...

Couchbase helps mobile developers tame their unstructured data with first-of-its-kind NoSQL suite

Although it has grown tremendously over the last few years against the backdrop of the explosion in unstructured information, the database market still has a lot of white space left to fill, much of it in mobile. As a consequence that product gap, app developers often have no choice but to compromise. There exist plenty ...

Salesforce.com mobilizes the cloud with companion app upgrade

In many ways, the proliferation of phones and tablets in the enterprise is serving as a conduit for cloud computing, unshackling productivity from the desktop and allowing users to take advantage of the platform-agnostic experiences made possible by the as-a-service model.  Realizing that, Salesforce.com has been investing heavily to grow its mobile presence in recent ...

IBM’s storage vision rising from the ashes | #IBMEdge

Like so many other technological innovations throughout the 20th century, the disk drive was too invented by IBM.  But the company had seen its technical dominance of the storage space erode over the years due to a combination of internal and external factors that shifted the strategic focus to areas deemed more important by management. ...