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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E3 Rumors: Is Microsoft Launching an AirPlay-Like Service?

The E3 gaming industry conference is scheduled to kick off tomorrow, and word has it Microsoft has something big in store for Xbox 360 users. Word has it that the software giant has been working on something called Smart Glass, which will almost certainly be debuted at the conference. Last Friday it acquired 20 domain ...

Turning the Spotlight onto IBM Edge 2012

Big Blue is holding the first ever IBM Edge conference this week, and SiliconANGLE is attending. The key areas of focus are storage and big data, two trends that are also be at the heart of the HP Discover gathering that’s being held this week as well. Today the events are kicking off simultaneously, and ...

ClickFox Update Lets Consumer Stats Skip the Data Scientist

ClickFox is a maker of consumer behavior analytics software that has become quite popular over time, and now it’s rolled out the latest version of its flagship Customer Experience Analytics, or CEA platform. The 6.4 release aims to streamline the flow of data throughout an organization with new features that handle who gets access to ...

HP Discover 2012: Live Coverage Kicks off Next Week

Now that SAP and EMC have held their big annual conferences, it’s time for Hewlett-Packard to turn the spotlight on itself with HP Discover, kicking off next Monday June 4-7 in Las Vegas. The gathering is expected to feature the traditionally long lineup of announcements and product updates, in addition to an equally formidable number of ...

Roambi Tops this Week’s Tablet Business App Roundup

Roambi is the nifty iOS app that allows you to view data not as Excel spreadsheets but rather as aesthetic, visualized charts. This week the application turned even more attractive with an announcement from MeLLmo, debuting a new feature along with the complimentary Roambi ESX software. The latter is a publishing system that gives professional ...

This Week in Big Data: HANA Moves into Mobile, Cloud and More

SAP is stepping its big data play up a notch. The business software maker’s vision is based largely on the HANA in-memory analytics platform which gained a surprising amount of support in the past 12 months, most recent from one of the company’s own subsidiaries. Success Factors, the provider of cloud-based HR services SAP acquired ...

This Week in the Cloud: from Salesforce’s Big Buy to Xbox Video Streaming

This week’s major highlights spanned across quite a few areas, ranging from the M&A scene to the personal cloud and the latest move in Xbox’s campaign to take over the living room. Yesterday we learned that enterprise SaaS giant Salesforce.com agreed to dole out $800 million for Buddy Media, a social marketing firm that cater ...

Facebook Highlight an Attempt to Boost Monetization

Facebook dominated the headlines with its $16 billion IPO and $104 billion valuation. But the company’s shares quickly declined from the $38 initial asking price to just over $28 today; now the social media kingpin is facing more pressure than ever to convince the market it can bring enough money home. Facebook has a lot ...

SAP Looking to Capitalize on Facebook’s Mistakes

SAP vice president of cloud computing Dinesh Sharma has plans in store for Facebook, he said in a recent interview in which he elaborated on his company’s social strategy.  This was one of the key elements behind the $4.3 billion acquisition of Ariba, and in the future it might serve the same central role in ...

Productivity Booster! Free Tools for IT [Infographic]

A recent infographic posted on WhatsUpGold is something most of the companies we cover don’t want you to know – you can get some of the stuff for free.  This applies to productivity tools for IT professionals among other things, and the graph covers five of the more popular freely downloadable utilities out there. Number ...