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

VCs invest $5 million in Tray.io, a do-it-yourself IFTTT rival

The stakes in the ultra-competitive workflow automation business continue to rise. Tray.io Inc., a London-based startup that provides a service for streamlining repetitive business tasks, has announced the completion of $5 million investment led by local fund Mosaic Ventures. The financing also saw the participation of True Ventures, which was the main contributor to the ...

Domino Data Lab, the data science startup Tesla uses, raises $10.5M

Slack and other general-purpose collaboration tools can significantly speed up certain team projects, but they only go so far in areas such as data science where the work is usually too complex to be sorted out with a few chat messages. As a result, analytics teams at Tesla Motors Inc. and other leading companies have ...

Hell freezes over as Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation

Microsoft Corp. just did something that would have seemed impossible five years ago: It has joined the Linux Foundation, backing software that former Chief Executive Steve Ballmer once called a “cancer.” Admittedly that was awhile ago, but the move, kicking off the software giant’s third annual Connect(); developer conference in New York today, marks the latest ...

Skedulo bags $9.2M to help companies run field operations more efficiently

When Australian entrepreneurs James Davies and Matt Fairhurst (above) founded Skedulo Pty Ltd. in 2013, they set out to achieve an ambitious goal: Make it easy for large companies to manage the legions of mobile workers who support their field operations. Three years and numerous client wins later, the startup’s efforts have received a major boost ...

Microsoft intros new chatbot service, partnerships with Elon Musk-backed OpenAI

Chatbots will take center stage at Microsoft Corp.’s Connect(); developer conference in New York this week. Harry Shum, the head of the company’s artificial intelligence group, laid the groundwork for the event today by announcing a new cloud tool designed to speed up the creation of virtual agents. The Azure Bot Service, as it’s called, offers ...

Salesforce.com gives its Trailhead learning service a LinkedIn-style makeover

Almost every enterprise tech company runs some sort of training program to help users familiarize themselves with its products, but few appear to put as much thought into it as Salesforce.com Inc. has. The cloud giant operates a learning portal called Trailhead that is modeled after gamified education sites such as Codecademy. Professionals interested in ...

Siemplify raises $10M to improve corporate security coordination

Cybersecurity professionals usually divide their attention between several different tools, but according to Siemplify Inc., that doesn’t have to mean they should be constantly switching between tabs and shuffling data around. The New York-based startup is pursuing a centralized approach to breach prevention that has attracted a $10 million investment from 83North, G20 Ventures and several ...

Logz.io’s AI-powered IT analytics platform attracts $16M funding

There are numerous cloud-based analytics tools out there that offer to help information technology administrators make better sense of their system data, but Logz.io Inc. is probably the only one that relies on the online programmer community Stack Overflow to do it. The Israeli startup raised $16 million in funding today for its Cognitive Insights ...

App testing startup Sauce Labs lands massive $70M round

A year and a half after securing its last funding round, Sauce Labs Inc. has raised a mammoth $70 million investment from a trio of private equity firms. The biggest name on the list is Institutional Venture Partners, one of the oldest funds on Silicon Valley’s famed Sand Hill Road and an early backer of ...

GE acquires field operations specialist ServiceMax for $915M

Two months after forming a new division to widen the adoption of cloud computing and analytics in the industrial world, General Electric Co. is acquiring ServiceMax Inc. for $915 million to fast-track its efforts. The deal buys the company one of the world’s most widely used platforms for managing field service operations. ServiceMax boasts thousands ...