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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#EMCworld Day 1 Recap : ViPR’s Software-Led Strategy to Beat AWS

TheCUBE is attending its fourth EMC World this week to bring you the latest news and analysis from the storage vendor’s annual three-day event in Las Vegas. SiliconANGLE founding CEO John Furrier and Wikibon chief analyst Dave Vellante wrapped up a long day of broadcasting yesterday with a recap on the main highlights of Day ...

Plastic Guns Are Coming to a 3D Printer Near You

An emerging technology known as 3D printing is hailed by some as the future of manufacturing. Pundits believe that when 3D printers become cheap enough for the average household, consumers may stop frequenting shops for certain goods. Instead, they predict that we’ll simply download blueprints for our sci-fi printers and ‘print’ products in the convenience ...

The Man behind SAP Week on the Event, Cloud Trends + AWS

Andy Sitison, the Global Director of Application Sales for EMC, spoke with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante during the recent SAP Week gathering at the company’s Executive Briefing Center (EBC) in Hopkinton, MA. Sitison is the driving force behind the event. He boasts that this year’s SAP Week was the biggest to date, and the single largest ...

How Software Reinvented Logistics for TTX

Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante caught up with Bruce Schinelli, the chief information officer of railcar giant TTX, at EMC’s recent SAP Week conference in Hopkinton, MA. The executive shared a few details about his company, its IT infrastructure, and the technologies it is leveraging to streamline operations. Schinelli starts the interview by ...

What’s EMC’s Strategy with New Software-Led Storage Platform ViPR? Curb Market Disruption #emcworld

EMC is doing for storage what VMware did for servers with ViPR, a new software-defined storage solution for managing large scale data centers. The offering made its debut today at the annual EMC World 2013 conference in Las Vegas. ViPR is pegged as a highly abstracted, vendor-agnostic platform built for service providers and large enterprises ...

Why Did EMC’s Project Propel Work? Kate Parson Explains, and Offers CIOs Advice

On July 4, 2012 EMC deployed project Propel, an SAP application stack that replaced the legacy Oracle environment it relied on for the greater part of the last two decades. Kate Parsons, a senior director and project management officer at EMC IT, provided her unique perspective on the initiative in a recent interview with Wikibon’s ...

EMC’s Bernhard Schulzki Breaks Down SAP Migration + Virtualization [VIDEO]

Bernhard Schulzki, vice president of technology partner management at EMC, plays a key role in his company’s ecosystem. Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante caught up with the executive at SAP Week to discuss a few of the more important issues facing organizations that leverage SAP in their environments. Schulzki says that customers are ...

How EMC’s Ecosystem + SAP Aid the Transition to Cloud [Exclusive Video]

Terry Breen, the senior vice president of global strategic sales for EMC, attended the recently concluded SAP Week and shared his take on the cloud, HANA and a couple other topics in an interview with Wikibon chief analyst Dave Vellante. Breen says that the event is an opportunity for EMC, VMware, SAP and VCE to ...

Drowning in Java : An EMC Architect’s Journey from Oracle to HANA [Video]

Mike Harding, the systems architect for EMC’s IT department, discussed his firm’s internal SAP deployment (Project Propel) in a recent interview with Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante at the recently concluded SAP Week. Before Project Propel went live in July 2012, EMC employees were dependent on an Oracle-based platform that was collapsing under ...

Five Reasons to Adopt Virtualization-aware Storage : vStorage Isn’t Enough

Tegile Systems, a maker of medium-range unified hybrid arrays, says that traditional technologies don’t deliver the functionality that’s needed to optimize storage infrastructure for modern workloads. Mainstream solutions such as VMware’s vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) and Windows Server 2012, which only delivers a limited amount of support for hyperscale environments, simply don’t cut ...