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

The Winners and Losers in Nokia’s New Map Deal with Oracle

Our very own Kristen Nicole made an appearance at the SiliconANGLE News Desk with Kristin Feledy to discuss the recently announced partnership between Nokia and Oracle (full video below).  The database giant’s enterprise customers will now have access to Nokia’s mapping technology, and Kristen views the collaboration as a big opportunity for both firms. Nokia first ...

Oracle OpenWorld Day 1 Recap: More Databases & Lock-in, Nokia Maps Team Up

Oracle OpenWorld kicked off yesterday, with the company releasing a big batch of updates they’d saved up for the event. The big highlight was Larry Ellison’s hour-long keynote entitled “Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together: Why It’s A Different Approach.” Ellison provided long-anticipated details on all the major products that Oracle has lined up for ...

This Week in Big Data: Precog Funding, MongoDB NoSQL Lectures, and More

This week features the usual handful of updates from analytics vendors, including Precog – an up-and-coming big data startup. Its service entered open beta this Monday. Precog, which has $2 million in the bank thanks to a recent funding round, offers a cloud-based framework that enables all sorts of apps to leverage their structured and ...

Fusion-io CEO Wants More Choice in Flash Market, Hails NetApp Team-Up

Fusion-io co-founder and chief executive David Flynn was one of the attendees at the NetApp Customer Day mini-event at VMworld 2012. The executive discussed his company, the partnership with NetApp and flash storage in an interview with Wikibon founder Dave Vellante (full video below). The Cube alumnus said that it his company has seen sales ...

This Week in the Cloud: New Apps and a $25M Surprise

A handful of cloud service vendors had big news this week. Among them is ServiceSource, a cloud service provider that’s making a strong appeal to the industry at large. ServiceSource helps tech firms manage their recurring revenue. This week the company introduced a new hosted toolset that covers analytics, operations, CRM and a couple other ...

Double Sales Growth for VirtuStream, Thanks to Solutions like NetApp

Flexibility in supporting a range of architectures has been important for NetApp’s appeal to customers and partners, including VirtuStream, who’s been able to extend the benefits to its string of Fortune 500 companies.  Today we hear from Simon Aspinall, the chief marketing officer of the up-and-coming cloud service provider. Wikibon Founder Dave Vellante chatted up ...

NetApp on Virtualization: Flash Strategy Looks to the Channel

Flash is kind of a big deal for storage darling NetApp.  The company’s seeking out the best strategy for Flash SSD, with emphasis on the partner channel.  Wikibon’s Dave Vellante caught up with Tim Russel, the head of data lifecycle products for NetApp, at the storage vendor’s mini event during VMworld 2012 (see the full ...

IBM Boosts its Channel Strategy with MSP Initiatives

IBM is promoting its SmartCloud and PureSystems line-up with new incentives for the managed service providers (MSPs) that provide client companies with the local expertise needed to get things up and running.  Big Blue is really sweetening the deal with this push, via the addition of ‘unmatched’ sales and marketing assistance as well as other ...

Bloomfire Continues Expansion with Salesforce Integration

Bloomfire is a social enterprise startup that touts its platform as a cloud-based ‘unified knowledge hub.’  It’s a cross between a CMS and a social network that works as an add-on for content-driven services that a client may already be using, such as Google Apps. Starting this week Bloomfire also supports Salesforce – and it’s ...

What to Expect at Oracle OpenWorld 2012: Reinforcing “Open” Technologies

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is kicking off on the 30th and will be held through October 4, 2012 in San Francisco. The conference will attract tens of thousands of IT pros as well as hundreds of partners, and will provide a very good perspective on where Oracle now stands in the market. For starters, Oracle’s set ...