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

Cloudera University Centralizes Hadoop Training Under One Brand Name

Cloudera has been offering training programs for Apache Hadoop, the data analytics engine the company and a number of other competitors based their products on, for quite some time now. It has apparently seen a growth in  demand, which is why the company announced today it will be offering its courses via the new Cloudera ...

EMC’s Joe Tucci: Need to Play an Offensive Game

Joe Tucci, the chief executive of storage vendor EMC gave a lecture yesterday at the University of Washington about the strategy he adopted as CEO, and the outlook of the company in terms of growth and expansion. During his 50 minute lecture, Tucci put an emphasis on how his company is making a lot of ...

AppSense Introduces Free Version of Upcoming User Flexibility Suite

Desktop virtualization solutions provider AppSense announced a free version of AppSense Strata, a product suite currently in beta designed to add more user freedom to the existing and rather stiff VDI model enterprises implement.  It is set to release in early 2012. This software has several advantages according to the company. “To date the user ...

Mobile, Personal Storage Roundup: Latest Fuss around Android, Services

Two of the most dominant trends in the personal cloud today include mobile, which has become a constant since the launch of the original iPhone in 2007, and cloud-based storage solutions, which ties in directly with the on-the-go audience seeking to access and sync files across devices. The biggest news under the mobile category right ...

Millennial Media Unwraps Toolbox with New SDKs, Dev Site

Mobile ad network Millennial Media released version 4.5 of its Android and iOS SDKs yesterday, and rolled out an update to its developer site, mmDev.com. The new SDKs feature a few enhancements, most notably support for iOS 5. The launch comes not to long after the release of the latest iPhone, which means Millennial is ...

EMC and VCE Integrate Management Suite with VMware

EMC and VCE, a two-year-old joint venture between the storage vendor, Cisco and VMware announced the latest release of EMC’s Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning. The new software, version 3.0, plugs into vCloud Director and vCenter Server to boost the visibility and provisioning in Vblock. Vblock is VCE’s cloud-in-a-box offering, which fuses together Cisco networking gear, EMC ...

AppSense and App-DNA Partner for VDI Migration

Virtual desktop solutions provider AppSense and application migration services firm App-DNA teamed-up to offer customers a joint migration service, designed to help companies move Windows-based apps to Windows 7 and VDI platforms. App-DNA currently assesses a customer’s infrastructure as well to be able to offer an insight on how to achieve end user experience goals.  ...

Cisco’s Major Portfolio Expansion: Adapted for Big Data

Networking giant Cisco has had a rough ride this past year, undergoing a major restructuring in its efforts to return to its core business.  Today Cisco took an important step forward, adding new switches to its networking portfolio and updated several existing offerings. The emphasis is on virtualized deployments and big data. Cisco introduced the second ...

Tintri Launches Latest Storage Appliance: More Capacity, Automation

Tintri, a maker of storage solutions specifically designed for virtualized environments, announced the new Tintri VMstore T540 VM-aware storage appliance at the VMware Europe conference, held this week in Copenhagen. The T540 features several enhancements, mainly increased capacity and a couple of what the company called industry-first capabilities in an emailed press release. The new ...

Bit.ly’s Chief Data Scientist Downplays Twitter Changes

Hilary Mason, the chief data scientist at Bit.ly, responded to a tweeted update sent out by Twitter today that reads “We’re about to start wrapping all URLs regardless of their length with the t.co URL wrapper.” Twitter users  account for a huge portion of the visits link shorteners such as Bit.ly get every month, and ...