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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HP applies Big Data to ecological research

Underpinning the messaging at this week’s HP Discover 2013 summit in Barcelona, Hewlett-Packard announced that it has joined forces with nonprofit environmental organization Conservation International (CI) to help scientists take proactive steps against ecological threats. The collaboration produced HP Earth Insights, an integrated Big Data solution that couples Vertica database technology with a custom dashboarding ...

AWS addresses main challenges in virtualization + stacking for the enterprise | re:Invent2013

After roaming the showroom floor for the first few days of Amazon’s re:Invent 2013 conference, Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stu Miniman got back in theCUBE with hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante to share his conclusions about the public cloud giant’s enterprise plan. While traditional technology companies anticipate that 80 percent of IT workloads will ...

Dell introduces all-flash array with new storage software

A month after the debut of NetApp’s EF550 all-flash array, Dell is introducing a hybrid system that can be configured with solid-state memory as the only type of data storage. The EqualLogic PS6210 is available in six different models with up to three times higher performance and four times the memory of prior generation solutions, ...

QLogic inks OEM deal with Huawei for Gen 5 adapters

QLogic announced on Tuesday that its FlexSuite 2600 Series 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters have started shipping with Huawei’s Tecal RH rack servers and X Series high-density data center boxes. The launch comes two months after the networking equipment provider introduced two HBAs for environments running HP’s ProLiant Generation 8 blades or servers. Like the 2600, ...

ServiceNow ups ante on orchestration with Configuration Automation

Change control has always been a thorn in the side of IT, with procedure taking precedence over efficiency for the sake of risk reduction. To make things worse, limited visibility and poorly implemented enforcement mechanisms leave organizations with no choice but to put governance in the hands of practitioners, who often consider it nothing more ...

SAP democratizes predictive analytics with KXEN tech

SAP’s latest acquisition is already starting to pay dividends. The business intelligence giant on Monday introduced InfiniteInsight, a Big Data solution that fuses its Predictive Analytics solution with modeling software from KXEN, the San Francisco-based startup it picked up in September. Research firm Loudhouse estimates that 78 percent of decision makers believe predictive analytics will ...

ServiceNow on IT operations : New apps for the single system of record

One of the most fundamental problems facing IT is the great variety of individual IT tools available, each having its own set of data, management, and user interfaces. SiliconANGLE founder and CEO John Furrier recently sat down with Dave Wright, VP of Worldwide Solutions Consulting at ServiceNow, to discuss the complexity and lack of standardization ...

Hewlett-Packard ups converged infrastructure game ahead of Barcelona event

Seeking to reduce its dependency on the weakening PC market, Hewlett-Packard is rolling out a set of use case-optimized converged server and storage solutions for the enterprise. Pre-integrated systems are gaining traction among CIOs as information continues grow faster than the ability of traditional data center architectures to accommodate it. The new ConvergedSystem for Virtualization, ...

IBM and The Now Factory’s roadmap for telecom innovation | #IBMIoD

This October, IBM entered a definitive agreement to acquire The Now Factory, a Dublin, Ireland-based provider of analytics solutions for telecommunications providers. Tom Morrisroe, the software maker’s CEO, hopped into theCUBE at Information on Demand 2013 along with Big Blue’s Janine Grasso to share the insider’s perspective on the deal. Starting with a little background, ...

IBM Big Data VP on decision-making in the modern enterprise | #IBMIoD

Inhi Cho Suh, the head of data integration and governance for IBM’s Software Group, returned to theCUBE at Information on Demand 2013 to discuss the role of analytics in decision making with SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. Suh observes that the market has changed significantly since 2012, with more and more vendors ...