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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Broadcom makes 4G LTE more accessible to consumers with low-end smartphone chip

Increasing consumer spending in emerging markets is creating new growth opportunities for mobile phone manufacturers, offering escape from the cutthroat competition in North America and Europe. Major vendors such as Hewlett-Packard are spearheading the charge into this rapidly expanding segment, and their component suppliers are following suit. On Monday, semiconductor giant Broadcom pulled the curtains ...

Rackspace insiders on the hyperscale supply chain | #OCPSummit

Hyperscale is fundamentally changing the way infrastructure is deployed and managed, but while the technology itself has the industry abuzz, very little attention is being given to how this new paradigm affects day-to-day business activity. Wesley Jess and Aaron Sullivan of Rackspace dropped by theCUBE at the recently concluded Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit to ...

Fusion-io moves up the storage food chain with new flash arrays

Fusion-io, a leading maker of PCIe flash cards for servers, is looking to make a name for itself in the broader storage market with two new systems that utilize speedy ioMemory solid-state drives to provide high-performance and scalability for enterprise workloads. The first addition to the company’s product line-up is the ION Accelerator, an all-flash ...

LSI systems architect discusses hyperscale and the secret sauce behind Amazon’s cloud dominance | #OCPSummit

Robert Ober, a systems and processor architect for semiconductor maker LSI, hopped into theCUBE during the recently concluded Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit to share his insider’s perspective on open-source hardware with hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Ober starts off the interview with a brief rundown of LSI’s two newly announced contributions to the ...

SAP overhauls cloud-based training hub

SAP is taking a page from Cloudera’s book, doubling down on education as part of a push to regain solid footing in the modern enterprise, where an increasing emphasis on productivity growth is driving a transition from traditional on-premise software to cloud services. The German business intelligence giant last week updated its online training center in ...

What you missed in Big Data : New solutions shift analytics landscape

It’s been an exciting month for the Big Data ecosystem, with Cloudera repackaging its portfolio in an effort to make Hadoop more accessible to organizations of different sizes. Two emerging players also made headlines with new solutions for developing analytical applications. Announced on Monday, the Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub combines the vendor’s open source distribution ...

Industry leaders on OpenStack innovation : Future of the enterprise cloud | #OEForum

Last month’s OpenStack Enterprise Forum featured a packed agenda studded with presentations and commentary by some of the most influential thought leaders in the industry. However, there was one discussion in particular that stood out among the many highlights of the event: a panel entitled Driving OpenStack Adoption with Nebula head Chris Kemp, HP cloud ...

Oracle, OpenDaylight mark SDN milestones

Software-defined networking (SDN) is continuing to gain momentum as traditional vendors realign their product strategies for the industry wide-shift from legacy solutions to new architectures that couple open-source software with commodity hardware to achieve unprecedented efficiency at large scale. Routing giant Cisco entered the fray last month with the launch of a management module hailed ...

Concurrent rounds out data-driven app dev framework with performance management tool

The rapid growth in unstructured information is transforming the entire enterprise IT stack, from the underlying infrastructure to the business software end users depend on to be productive. But while the journey to re-architect the data center is well under way, with the Hadoop distribution race already in full swing, the industry is only now ...

Cisco takes on the Internet of Things with “fog computing”

At last week’s DistribuTECH summit in San Antonio, Cisco revealed what its Internet of Things division has been up to since forming in October. The routing kingpin introduced a distributed computing architecture called IOx that combines its Internetworking Operating System (IOS) with Linux to simplify how data from connected devices is stored and managed. By ...