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

Akamai and Ericsson Team-Up in the Cloud

Akamai and Ericsson announced a team-up at the 2011 Mobile World Congress this week, to create a mobile cloud acceleration platform extending Akamai’s reach even further. The exclusive deal between the two is aimed to set-up content delivery networks “touching” operator networks on a global scale in order to introduce better service, new business models ...

HP Goes Hard with Data Markets, Set to Acquire Vertica

Hewlett-Packard has announced it’s signed an agreement to acquire cloud analytics platforms provider Vertica for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition of Vertica the electronics giant can enhance its data optimization offerings portfolio with real-time, large-scale analytics. “In today’s highly competitive environment, customers need the ability to manage the increasing amounts of data and growing streams ...

Motorola Takes Android to Work, and Beyond: MWC 2011 Coverage

Motorola had a lot to announce in this year’s Mobile World Congress event, focusing on security as well as enterprise mobile. The first  piece of news is the acquisition of Android enterprise security start-up 3LM.  Motorola is expected to officially announce the acquistion later today. Basically, the purpose of this move is to help Motorola sell ...

Intel Invests $26M in Mobile Cloud

The latest addition of Intel’s massive recent investments spree is a $26 million investment in the mobile cloud, specifically in 6 international companies stretching from Beijing to Menlo Park, California. Among these companies is open-source video platform provider Kaltura and InVisage Technologies, who offers a quantum dot-based material essentially replacing the silicon (but not the ...

The Cloud Reformation around Digital, Print Media

The cloud is infiltrating everything, and the media sector, in all its many facets, is no exception. We’ve seen a lot of activity bringing the cloud to this ever-changing segment; a growing trend which coincides with reader ‘print-abandonment’ in favor of digital editions. However, while printing may be a dying industry in some areas, Google ...

FalconStor’s So-So Earnings Call for Innovation in 2011

Disk-base data protection company FalconStor had its earnings call this week, which reflects an earlier decline for the company, but also some optimistic growth outlook throughout Q4, 2011. The company reports a record of $26.5 million in revenues in the fourth quarter, which represents an increase of 18% compared to the same period in 2009, ...

Microsoft-Nokia Love Match Takes Mobile Industry in New Direction

The mobile space had seen a lot of activity, updates, rumors and news breaks this past week or so, and it’s indicative of some larger trends taking place within the industry.  As it pertains to user adoption, consumer behavior and business wars, mobile is a hot topic, with plenty to talk about. The Nokia/Microsoft deal ...

It’s An Android World, but Adversaries Await

Android had a busy past week, with the press event around Honeycomb 3.0 and a full-force front of manufacturers creating devices, tablets in particular, around this amplified operating system.  But the industry is fighting back, with Apple’s expedited production plan for its second gen iPad, and HP debuting its tablet-webOS combo.  Android, as popular as ...

Google Sweetening the Honeycomb Pot for Developers

CNET reports a new interface dubbed Renderscript purposed for the upcoming Honeycomb will enable programmers to manage hardware functionalities for their applications. Honeycomb-running hardware will be unlocked using low-level programming, according to a blog post by Google Android performance and graphics programmer R. Jason Sams. “The target audience is the set of developers looking to ...

Slacker Raises $3 million in Funding, Vastly Expands Market

TechCrunch reports cross-platform radio station Slacker raised $3 million in debt funding , according to an SEC filing. The company hasn’t disclosed too many details about the investment, aside from a confirmation that it has secured capital from all its existing investors. Slacker also said the sum will be used “for scaling the business” based ...