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

Accenture Rolls Out General Fund Enterprise Business System

IT consultancy Accenture has recently completed the deployment of the General Fund Enterprise Business System, one of the largest enterprise resource planning setups in the world. The GFEBS will be used to handle the Army’s entire financial and infrastructure assets, as well as to manage cost management and performance data. The ERP setup also includes a ...

Ahead of VMworld 2012: VMware Licensing Changes, New Hardware and Software

VMworld 2012 is just around the corner and already demonstrators, VMware itself, are starting to unveil their updates in hopes of attracting attendees to their booths. One of the biggest news that have been made public so far is that the virtualization giant is pulling the plug on  and will be exchange this model for ...

Windows 8: Metro Out, Augment Licensing In

A couple big changes will be introduced with Windows 8 that future users and developers ought to be aware of. For starters, Metro is no longer the designated name for the tile-based interface design that will be featured in the OS. Business Week reports that that Metro AG, a German retailer that sells foodstuff and ...

RNC and Partners Create a “Convention without walls” on YouTube

Ahead of the Republican Party’s Tampa convention on the 27th, organizers are busy putting together a digital “convention without walls” on YouTube with the help of social tools and WiFi. The RNC partnered up with Google, Microsoft and Facebook in order to piece together an entire list of features. Google is the “social platform and ...

Engine Yard Adds Node.js Support

Engine Yard is one of the most widely used developer-oriented PaaS solutions out there, but up until now it could only run Rails and PHP. In the next 30 days the platform will be receiving a big boost with the addition of support for Node.js, an up-and-coming server-side language. Engine Yard already has a very ...

VMworld 2012: Big Expectations in a Booming Virtualized World

VMworld 2012 is going down this month from the 26th to the 30th in San Francisco. VMware itself hasn’t announced any major updates in a while, so it’s safe to assume the company is saving a few things for the event, but that didn’t stop partners from sending out a few memos to the press. ...

NetApp’s Big Flash Push: New Product, Huge Ecosystem Update

A couple days ago with Big Blue announced its first major commitment to flash with the acquisition of Texas Memory Systems, I said that the deal is going to have a big impact on the storage market. Other vendors will want to get their feet wet at some point if they don’t intend on falling behind ...

sqrrl Raises $2M for Big Data Security System

sqrrl just received $2 million in seed funding from Atlas Venture and Matrix Partners. Its technology is still in the development stage, but when it officially launches, enterprises will be able to encrypt data in small portions, rather than having to hide an entire file. sqrrl is compromised mainly of NSA veterans, including co-founders Oren Falkowitz, CEO, ...

Nirvanix Lands Cloud Deal with Fox

Fox Networks Group, the subsidiary in charge of operations for the Fox Entertainment Group, chose cloud storage startup Nirvanix to power a big portion of its internal IT. The media giant will use Nirvanix’s Cloud Storage Network for a couple of things, including as the underlying infrastructure for a more modernized collaboration service that is ...

Looking Back at VMworld 2011: Did the Vision of Security and Flash Come True?

VMworld 2012 is just a week away, and now is a good opportunity to reflect on what came out of the gathering – one of the largest annual conferences in IT – last year. Security was a big deal at VMworld 2011.  Last year a long string of successful attacks on enterprises and government agencies ...