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

Jaspersoft and Red Hat Offer Cloud Data-to-Dashboard Solution

BI software maker Jaspersoft partnered with open-source solutions maker and Linux distributor Red Hat to deliver a virtualized version of its offering.  The joint effort bundles the JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform and Jaspersoft’s BI Suite, resulting in a cloud-based open-source BI and analytics software. “Working with Red Hat, we’re bringing a compelling solution to ...

Competitors HP and Cisco Come Together over Latest Offering

Hewlett-Packard and Cisco have become fierce competitors after the latter introduced its Unified Computing System (UCS) offering, which includes Cisco-made blade servers in 2009. In 2010 HP acquired 3Com and became the second largest player in the networking industry; Cisco’s home turf. Despite this strained relationship, the companies acknowledged that it would be in their ...

RSA and McAfee for a Single Security Offering

RSA, the security division of storage giant EMC and McAfee (recently acquired by Intel) announced the latest product of a technology partnership, which was announced earlier this year.  The companies now offer a joint solution that bundles the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform with RSA Archer eGRC Platform and RSA Archer Enterprise Management. RSA Archer is a web-based tool ...

VMware Expands Partner Base before Earnings Call

EMC virtualization subsidiary VMware is scheduled to have its Q3 earnings call today, and analysts are expecting the company to report growth consistent with the past four quarters.  Also today the company released a couple of partnership announcements, just a few hours before it’s set to reveal its earnings. The average profit forecast is 33 ...

ActiveState Joins OpenStack, Extends Features and Support

ActiveState, the developer of the private PaaS solution Stackato, has joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA). This is a big milestone for the company, which puts a special emphasis on keeping its platform infrastructure-agnostic. Stackato is an implementation of VMware’s open-source Cloud Foundry PaaS that was launched in September. The so-called private PaaS offering includes, ...

Dell Plans for Mobile Workers, an App Ecosystem and Virtualization

Our own Alex Williams attended Dell World 2011, which focused on several things including Dell’s tablet strategy, Windows 8, the developer ecosystem that powers Dell’s technology and virtualization, to name a few. On the mobile side of things, it seems Dell is no longer interested in using Android to power its upcoming enterprise tablets, and ...

Facebook for iPad Tops Business Tablet Apps of the Week

This week brought several important enterprise updates to the mobile space, especially where Android is concerned.  It’s growing support that the enterprise sector is a ready and willing mobile audience, always in need of business-ready apps.  There were a couple notable new app launches for the business tablet user, among them the celebrated launch of ...

This Week in Cloud: Storage Key for Enterprise and Consumers

The past week in the cloud featured a lot of storage updates, both in the enterprise and consumer segments. The first highlight is a partnership between tech veteran IBM and storage startup Nirvanix to help expand IBM SmartCloud Enterprise storage services. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier explained how the deal is a win-win for the two companies: ...

DataDirect Networks Strengthens Market Position with Recent Milestones

Big data storage firm DataDirect Networks is growing its market share by pursing an aggressive strategy that involves expanding their offering portfolio and strengthening the management team. The company’s most recent update is the announcement of Web Object Scaler 2.0, its object-based cloud storage appliance. DDN has been around for a decade and has established ...

Hadoop Leads Market Trends as Hortonworks gains Traditional Players

Open-source big data engine Hadoop has become one of the fastest growing trends in the IT world, and the number of companies that get involved with this ecosystem – both solution providers and users – consistently contributes to their growth. One of the latest names on the list is Microsoft. On the same day it ...