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

Pre-Earnings Recap on Fusion-io

Flash storage solutions provider Fusion-io is having its first earnings call today since it went public in June, making it a good time to recap on how the company has been doing in this timeframe.  The most recent development comes from a white paper released by StatSoft, a maker of data analytics and management offerings. ...

Intel Labs’ New Open Cloud Research Centers, Grows Investment

Intel, being the largest player in the semiconductor market by sales, has a lot to gain from the accelerating cloud computing adoption in the enterprise, and the subsequent increased demand for servers powered by its chips.  One of the ways the company is looking to gain its an edge is investing in research. Intel Labs ...

EU Antitrust Complaints Against IBM Dropped By 3 Firms

Big Blue’s monopoly in the mainframe market has been subject to some scrutiny from the EU lately, mainly after three smaller firms trying to compete in this market filled antitrust complaints against IBM.  TurboHercules , a France-based company that sells the Hercules open-source emulator, clone mainframe maker T3 Technologies and Neon Software, which developed the zPrime workload ...

EMC Rolls Out RSA Security Update, Acquires Stake in Asankya

Storage giant EMC had a couple of updates today, first and foremost an announcement coming from the Black Hat cybersecuirty conference. The company introduced NetWitness Panorama as well as several significant updates to its RSA enVision Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform.  The former is the newest threat management and log analysis module to ...

Millennial Media Makes App Store Syncs Easy for Developers

Millennial Media, the largest independent mobile ad network that hasn’t been acquired yet by Apple, Google or a number of other players, is looking to boost their presence in this area.  Always making an appeal to mobile developers, Millennial Media announced the latest update to its mmDev developer portal in its blog. Developers now have access ...

Tech Teams with NY State for Green Datacenters

Hewlett-Packard, chipmaker AMD and a number of other companies have teamed up with the  New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (N.Y.S.E.R.D.A) to make datacenter electricity consumption in the state more power and cost effective, thanks to cloud computing. Data centers account for three percent of all power consumption in the state, a figure ...

Social Apps Get Licensing Agreements Too: the New Distribution of Software

Hip Digital Media, a social marketing firm, has entered into a licensing agreement with Appitalism operator Mobile Streams.  Appitalism is a marketplace similar to the App Store and Android marketplace that offers over 200,000 apps for both platforms, according to the company.  Hip Digital will now resell these applications in the U.S, Canada and U.S. ...

Zenprise Hires New ‘VP of Customer Success’

Zenprise, a provider of mobile device management software and services, announced its latest major hire today.  The firm named Chris Doell as its vice president of customer success, a newly created role that will put him in charge of client services, customer support, account management and a number of other administrative duties. “Doell brings over ...

SaaS Gains Enterprise Help Desk with Zendesk Update

Zendesk today announced that its popular help desk offering, which is used by Sony and Twitter among others, will become more worthwhile for large organizations with an enterprise plan scaled up for the company’s heavy-weight customers. The price tag on it is 99$ per customer support agent per month, and it comes with several major ...

JailBreakMe Developer Talks Apple and Security

Comex, the person behind the JailBreakMe iPhone software that lets users get bypass Apple’s notoriously strict Digital Rights Management and install any app of their choosing, has been revealed by Forbes thanks to some social media research. The individual who seems to be one step ahead of Apple’s security team at all times turns out to ...