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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Cloud Review: EMC Doubles Down on Storage and Adobe Embraces SaaS

EMC recently introduced a storage management solution for large-scale private cloud deployments and Adobe announced that it is adopting a subscription-based model. In addition, CloudVolumes upgraded its service and GoodData entered into a milestone partnership with Box. Last Monday, EMC introduced a set of new solutions at its annual conference in Las Vegas. One of ...

Cloud Strategies in the AWS Era : Exclusive Interview

John Treadway of Cloud Technology Partners (also called CloudTP), discussed the state of the industry in an interview with SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier and Wikibon’s Stu Miniman. Furrier opens the discussion by asking Treadway if the growing number of cloud acquisitions is a sign that the market is consolidating. The executive says that it’s ...

EMC’s Software-defined Storage Strategy Centers on Isilon, Says Wikibon

EMC’s got a lot of moving parts, building what it calls a federation of companies all working together to serve a cohesive set of tools for building your data center.  Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer named Isilon storage a “key component” of EMC’s scale-out cloud storage architecture. The company’s goal is to support a ...

5-Year Fix for Public Cloud Security Concerns : EMC Head Predicts New Roles for CIOs of Tomorrow

Tom Roloff, the senior vice president of EMC’s Global Services business, stopped by theCube at EMC World 2013 to discuss how consultancy is driving the two biggest trends in enterprise IT: Big Data and cloud computing. SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante open the interview by highlighting that the company has changed a ...

Nutanix Hits $80M Run Rate in Six Quarters

Nutanix, a San Jose-based provider of software-defined storage appliances, has achieved an annualized run rate of over $80 million. The company boasts of reaching this milestone a mere six quarters after shipping its first box in late 2011. Nutanix’s flagship Virtual Computing Platform is a converged infrastructure solution that leverages hyperscale technologies pioneered by Facebook ...

EMC’s Transformation: A Quest to Higher Margins and a Stronger Portfolio

EMC is transforming its business in the wake of changing market dynamics and mounting pressure from Amazon and OpenStack. CEO Joe Tucci doesn’t want any inefficiencies getting in the way of his growth plans. This week the storage behemoth disclosed that it will be firing 1,004 workers across its Information Storage, RSA Information Security and ...

SAP Brings HANA to the Cloud, Scales Value with Cost

SAP has announced that it will offer a subscription-based version of HANA to help customers sidestep around the complexity associated with on-premise deployments of its speedy in-memory database. This new hosted edition aims to kill two birds with one stone by addressing time-to-value and total cost of ownership. According to the company, SAP HANA Enterprise ...

EMC World Day 2 : EMC’s Software-Led Goals Garner Industry Responses, Spark Open Source Debate

TheCube hosts John Furrier, Dave Vellante and Winston Edmonds wrapped up Day 2 EMC World 2013 by sharing their perspectives on the latest news from the Las Vegas conference. Vellante kicks off the session by emphasizing the correlation between the software-defined trend and Big Data. He views Pivotal Labs, a joint venture between EMC and ...

Facebook’s iPhone App Can Double Your Data Costs : Twitter’s Cheep-Cheaper

Nearly half of those who visit social media sites do so from their phones, and 40 percent of mobile users have at least one social networking app installed. It almost goes without saying that Facebook is the single most popular free app on both Android and iOS, which is no small feat. These statistics reflect ...

Los Alamos National Lab Leverages Quantum-encrypted Network

The Los Alamos National Lab has been using a quantum-encrypted network to communicate sensitive information for the last two and a half years, according to the latest reports. The news item is that the laboratory’s researchers have come up with a workaround for one of the biggest challenges in this field: rerouting traffic without compromising ...