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

Dell Unleashes New Version of Desktop Virtualization Platform

Dell says that the latest version of its Wyse WSM desktop and application virtualization platform can help organizations of all sizes boost efficiency and drive down costs. The soon-to-be-available solution features server provisioning capabilities, support for 64-bit software, and several other notable improvements. Dell teamed up with virtualization firm CloudVolumes to make WSM’s management and ...

Impetus Business Development Chief Shows Off Company’s Big Data Lineup

SiliconAngle Studio B host Winston Edmondson caught up with Yue Cathy Chung, the senior director of business development for Impetus Technologies, to discuss her company and take a look at their newest Big Data solution. Chung starts the interview by providing a brief rundown of Impetus. The firm is a software engineering and IT services ...

Cloudera’s Drew O’Brien Says Hadoop is Set to Become the Facebook of Big Data

SiliconAngle Studio B host Winston Edmonton stopped by the Cloudera booth at Hadoop Summit 2013 to discuss Big Data and search with Drew O’Brien, the company’s senior manager of product marketing. O’Brien boasts that Cloudera introduced two new products this year: Impala, its real-time SQL query engine for Hadoop, and Cloudera Search. As the name ...

Abhishek Mehta Addresses Omni-channel

Abhishek Mehta, the founder of Tresata, explained how his startup’s Big Data suite will help enterprises make omni-channel commerce a reality in a recent Q&A with SiliconAngle NewsDesk Head Writer Winston Edmondson. Mehta starts the interview by explaining the buzzword. He tells Winston that omni-channel describes the notion of “looking at all possible avenues to ...

Icahn Suffers Another Blow Ahead of Dell Buyout Vote

The group of directors charged with supervising Dell’s sale slammed Carl Icahn’s after he invited fellow stockholders to appraise their shares in the company. The hedge fund giant wrote in a letter that his proposal is a “no-brainer” and involves “no risk” because the law allows investors to withdraw their appraisal proposals within 60 days ...

Rackspace Upgrades Android App with OpenStack Support

Yesterday Rackspace customers were pleasantly surprised to find a new release of the company’s free Android app. The latest version sports a new look and features an array of options for managing cloud deployments on the go. The reworked interface makes it easier to navigate the app and “find exactly what you’re looking for.” It’s ...

Kognitio Chief Innovation Officer on Big Data in the Enterprise

Paul Groom, the chief innovation officer for cloud analytics specialist Kognitio, shared his perspective on the divide between Hadoop and corporate America in a recent chat with SiliconAngle NewsDesk Head Writer Winston Edmondson. Groom perceives the Hadoop community as a somewhat isolated group “on the sharp end of technology.” He believes the biggest hurdle to ...

Netflix’s Jeff Magnusson on Big Data Visualization

Netflix is not only the world’s largest provider of streaming media, but also one of the most prominent contributors to the Hadoop ecosystem. Jeff Magnusson, Netflix’s head of Data Platform Architecture, discussed the open-source technologies his company uses to keep track of consumer trends in an interview with SiliconANGLE NewsDesk Head Writer Winston Edmondson. Winston ...

Qubole CEO Talks Big Data Analytics

SiliconANGLE Head Writer Winston Edmondson caught up with Ashish Thusoo,  co-founder and chief executive officer of Qubole, to discuss his company’s Big Data solution. Qubole sells a managed Hadoop cluster called QDS. Thusoo tells Winston that the platform helps users free up resources for innovation by eliminating most of the plumbing work associated with Big ...

[Video] A Sneak Peek Under the Hood of WANdisco’s Big Data Software

WANdisco’s Jagane Sundar and Brett Rudenstein showcased their firm’s new software at Hadoop Summit 2013. SiliconAngle NewsDesk Head Writer Winston Edmonton stopped by their booth to take a look. Winston inquires about WDD 3.6, WANdisco’s S3-enabled distro of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Sundar tells him that the platform implements the S3 API, which ...