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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EMC Sales Down Due to New Product Expectations, CEO Says

“Customers expecting that will not be disappointed, and it’s coming soon” said Joe Tucci, the chief executive of EMC during his company’s earnings call today. Tucci was referring to a decline in demand for high-end storage equipment; what EMC says is a direct result of companies supposedly holding off their purchases in anticipation of a ...

This Week in the Cloud: Rackspace, Big Data and Titanium 2.0

This week in the cloud was a fairly unusual one, in that we have seen not one but three big announcements marketing the convergence of at least two trends in the cloud. First up is Rackspace’s news.  The web host revealed a massive commitment to OpenStack, an initiative it conceived only two years, by migrating ...

NAB Final Recap: New Value, New Ways of Making Big Data Work

TheCube has been streaming content throughout the entirety of this week’s NAB conference. John Furrier and Dave Vellante reflected on their observations at the end of each day, and summarized some of the key highlights. Day 2 focused on the technology that’s helping to transform traditional media. Vellante looked at the different role of storage ...

Fusion-io Offers Flash SDK to Software Devs

Fusion-io makes flash storage that can credit a tremendous amount of its popularity to the sophisticated software powering it, such as the Atomic Writes I/O cutting extension. The company is responsible for slowly pushing SSDs into mainstream IT, and its new SDK is certainly underscoring this goal. Fusion-io announced today its first software development kit ...

W2O Expands to Big Data with Ravel Merger

The W2O Group, an alliance of companies that run marketing and outsourced development, has achieved a foothold in the analytics space with the acquisition of Ravel.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ravel is a big data firm best known for GoldenOrb, a graph algorithm execution framework that borrows components from Hadoop and a ...

NAB Recap: Big Data, Mobile Backup and Flash

The NAB conference brought thousands of experts under one roof to share their unique insight on one area or another, and to demo their companies’ new products. There were quite a few announcements at the gathering, and a handful managed to catch our eye. The first update is from Aspera, which didn’t reveal a new ...

The NAB Media Angle: from Wall Street to Social Broadcasting

The NAB conference covers a massive area within the media industry (many of which SiliconANGLE and theCube pick up as well), and all of the attending pundits are quick to give their unique takes on one segment or another. Marty Shindler, the founding CEO of a major entertainment consultancy, is one of them. He moderated ...

HP Killing Two Birds with One App Store

Hewlett-Packard may not have set any new trends recently, but it’s investing quite a bit in the transformation of its traditional business.  HP is doing it in the cloud, and the company’s latest launch seems to address not one but two different areas at the same time: mobile and big data.  The hardware giant is ...

The Future of Video: Smart and Connected #NABShow

This week SiliconANGLE is attending and covering the developments from NAB this week, one of the largest professional gatherings in the production media industry. The event’s sheer scale means it encompasses a very broad spectrum of areas, and like every good tech-related conference, NAB also has its share of forecasts and long-term speculation. It’s not ...

Showreel Discusses Technology’s Impact on Graphics at NAB [VIDEO]

Showreel’s Eric Jackson is one of the many graphic design and media experts that attended the NAB conference this week, along with SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. He stopped by theCube half-way through his tour at the expo to share his insight on how technology and new software is influencing his segment overall, including ...