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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CumuLogic Reveals PaaS Building Platform for the Enterprise

CumuLogic debuted Cloud Application Platform v1.0 this week, a software solution that allows companies to build a PaaS for Java applications based on their existing virtualized environment. Application Platform can run on VMware vSphere, OpenStack and Citrix CloudStack. “As one of the first CloudStack partners to be certified Citrix Ready, CumuLogic remains an important ecosystem partner ...

Relay Improves Drug Development with TIBCO Tech

Relay dubs itself as a life sciences big data company. It applies insight from unstructured and structured data sets to the pharmaceutical process, and offers value in the laboratory rather than directly from the business angle. Relay’s product is called Business Development Live, a real-time visualization solution that is now powered by TIBCO’s in-memory analytics ...

SAP Reports Strong Q2 Results

This week business intelligence software maker SAP held an earnings call for the second quarter of fiscal 2012. The company generated a profit of €0.92 billion, 7 percent more than in the same period last year, on revenue of €3.90 billion. That’s about 4.75 billion US dollars – 12 percent more than what SAP reported ...

QLogic Earnings Call Due in Two Weeks

Networking equipment maker QLogic announced that it will be reporting its results for the first quarter of the 2013 fiscal year on June 26. Here’s the official statement that the company sent out today. “Following the press release, QLogic will conduct a conference call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time). Simon Biddiscombe, ...

New Alliance in Big Data: Pentaho et al. Builds Out Analytics

Three emerging names in the big data space announced an alliance this week that will combine their respective software and services to create a new solution for analyzing customer data. These three companies are Pentaho, Semphonic and Infobright. Pentaho makes BI solutions that analyze companies’ data, while Semphonic offers services and consulting to clients that ...

Big Data for the Data Center: iTRACS and Intel Apply Analytics

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) firm iTRACS showcased its data center power analysis software at last month’s Datacenter Dynamics Converged event in Munich, and demonstrated six different use cases. These are now available upon request from the company, whose offering is based on existing technology from chipmaker Intel. iTRACS’ product goes by the name of ...

Sprint’s Neck Deep in the Cloud with New Services Portfolio

Sprint has entered into an exclusive agreement with CSC to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service to customers in the U.S. This is a major extension of Complete Collaboration, the carrier’s UCaaS that was debuted just earlier this year. Sprint’s IP network will act as the ‘communications backbone’ for SC’s Trusted Cloud and its line-up of related ...

Fujitsu Picks Datameer to Power its New Big Data System

Fujitsu struck an alliance with big data startup Datameer to jointly sell and market a new offering that couples their technology to power on-premise analytics. The System Solution for Enterprise Big Data Analysis will only be available in Japan. Fujitsu is touting its integrated solution as an out-of-the-box system that can be used to analyze ...

VMware Unveils Beta Version of Zimbra 8.0

VMware is making a beta version of the new Zimbra Collaboration Server 8.0 available for download today, its widely used open-source e-mail and calendar solution.  There are several big improvements, including a lot of integration, easier deployment and a line-up of new end user features.  The final release will be made available later this quarter. ...

Business Analytics Market Grew 14 Percent in 2011, Says IDC Report

Research firm IDC released a paper today entitled  which concludes that The worldwide business analytics market rose by 14.1 percent last year, according to a new report from IDC. In the report, ‘Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2012-2016 Forecast and 2011 Vendor Shares,’ IDC says it expects a compound annual growth rate of 9.8 percent to persist ...