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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Rackspace Sees Market Heat Up as Open Source Share Grows

Cloud hosting company Rackspace has been up to a lot of things lately, and it seems some of its efforts are beginning to pay off. The company generated $230 million in revenues in the first quarter of 2011, compared to $226.3 million the year before. And, while net income came in one cent per share ...

Brocade’s Michael Klayko Sits with theCube: Talks Networking, Cloud

Brocade’s Michael Klayko just sat down at  theCube with Dave Valente for a live interview during EMC World 2011, where he discussed his company, and the future of networking and the cloud in his eyes (see full interview below). Klayko started off by discussing some of his company’s recent announcements, and continued to note an ...

SnapLogic Releases New “Snap” for EMC Greenplum Database

SnapLogic, a maker of cloud data flow platforms, has released its latest “snap” designed for the EMC Greenplum database. SnapLogic developed the EMC Greenplum Snap in a team-up with the storage giant, which acquired the open-source business intelligence database last year.  Now, Greenplum customers can enhance their big data analytics investment by allowing them to ...

Pageonce Raises $15m in Personal Finance Space

Pageonce, a personal finance company which operates the Pageonce Money & Bills mobile service, announced it has raised $15 million in a fresh round of funding. The round was led by Morgenthaler Ventures, with participation from existing investors Pitango Ventures and Chairman of the Board Liron Petrushka. This brings the company’s total capital raised to ...

Intransa Leverages VMware vSphere for Cloud Bundle

Intransa, a maker of cloud applications for physical security and industrial video, announced it has bundled VMware vSphere with its Video and Data Management & Retention (VDMR) Appliance. Intransa is a VMware Embedded OEM partner, and will now enable its physical security customers to run multiple applications on a single virtualized server. “The bundled Intransa ...

Cisco’s Recovery: Management, Cloud, and e-Printing

John Chambers, the current CEO of networking behemoth Cisco, has put in place a council-based system in 2006 designed to boost cooperation between regional managers. This system, however, only slowed down the company and internal processes including innovation and financial development, becoming a major factor in Cisco’s decline in the past 12 months. Throughout that ...

HP Still Targets Consumers with New Product Line

Electronics giant Hewlett-Packard had quite a weekend, considering it launched multiple new business laptops which seem to be sharing a border with more consumer-sided devices. This is a part of the company’s effort to get into higher margin areas, both in the cloud and hardware space. And, it seems to have been working out quite ...

Cloud Sector Takes On Open Source as EMC World Kicks Off

This past week in the cloud had its fair share of news and updates, especially when it comes to open cloud initiatives. This field has become so attractive it not only spurred OpenStack and a number of other major presences, but also attracted VMware in the picture. The virtulization’s giant open-source PaaS offering, Cloud Foundry, ...

Check Out These Business Apps for iPad, Android Tablet

The invasion of tablets into the workspace has been going on for quite some time now, and its gaining momentum by the day. This is represented by all the ever-more powerful and handy apps, as well as the first product to enter this week’s list. The Enterprise App Store by Partnerpedia While it falls in ...

Growing Support for VMware’s Open Initiative Cloud Foundry

VMware’s Cloud Foundry, the first of open PaaS offerings, is currently in beta but having quite a start. We’ve heard of quite a bit of developments related to the offering in the past few weeks in particular, and now, the support for Cloud Foundry is beginning to accelerate. The Register reports that  ActiveState, the company ...