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

Seesmic CRM tops Tablet Business Apps: iPad, Android Edition

This week, we’ve rounded up the usual 5 apps, two of which stand out more than others. First of all, IBM just launched Connections on all the major platforms. Connections, once known as Lotus Connections, is the big blue’s social enterprise platform offering, and it’s a good move by the company to catch up with ...

Cloud Realities at VMworld 2011

The Cloud Realities Spotlight at VMworld 2011 covered some of the biggest of the biggest disruptors the industry has been seeing lately, as well as the whole big data trend that’s been going on in the past year or so. Manish Goel, EVP at NetApp joined for the first of two sessions, and talked about ...

Agility, Not Just Cost, Grows Demand for Converged Networks

The four-part Network Convergence Spotlight held on theCube at VMworld 2011 featured analysis from industry experts, and a look into how the big trends in networking are affecting the rest of the datacenter. Part 1 (full video below) was mostly an observation of some of the biggest drives pushing this trend forward today.  Network convergence ...

VMware’s Tod Neilsen Drop by theCube at VMworld 2011

Tod Neilsen, former COO and now head of application development at VMware, sat down at theCube for the third time now with  John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Nielsen detailed that he’s now responsible for Cloud Foundry, the company’s open-source PaaS, and vFabric. He noted that the former played a big part in the whole kick ...

Tintri’s Kieran Harty on a Different Path than 3PAR

Kieran Harty, co-founder and chief executive of Tintri, stopped by theCube during  VMworld 2011. He talked about Tintri’s offering, and his outlook for the company. Harty explained that Tintri developed a new type of NAS device; an appliance specifically designed for virtualized environments. The product only started shipping in April, and is based on flash ...

Microsoft Azure Toolkit for Android Ramps Mobile Competition

Software giant Microsoft has become invested in both the PaaS and mobile markets, and Azure is proving to be a very handy tool bolstering the company’s market share on both ends. Microsoft took an interesting approach by offering Azure toolkits for Windows Phone 7’s two main competitors (alongside the platform itself): iOS, and now Android. ...

Beyond Storage Virtualization: the Future of the Datacenter

TheCube Beyond Storage Virtualization Spotlight at VMWorld 2011, part 4 of today’s session, included Wikibon’s Dave Vellante as the moderator, along with Wikibon CTO and Senior Analyst David Floyer, Hewlett-Packard’s Marc Farley and Steve Kenniston of IBM (full video below–see parts 1-2 here, and part 3 here). David kicked off the discussion by saying that the ...

Storage Optimization Spotlight: Long Term Benefits of Compression

Steve Kenniston of IBM sat down in theCube for the third segment of the Storage Optimization Spotlight at VMWorld 2011 (see parts 1 and 2 here).  Kenniston is in charge of the IBM Real-Time Appliance for NAS, and real-time compression was the topic (full video below). “By us doing what I call compression offload, in ...

Simplified Cloud Management with ScaleXtreme’s New Release

, a maker of cloud management software announced two new cloud offerings, ScaleXtreme Xpress and ScaleXtreme Xpert.  This debut blends in into the company’s efforts to increase market awareness to its products, and there’s an emphasis on simplicity and  ease of use. “With the general availability of the final product editions, all customers now have ...

Cisco VP Talks Next Gen Mobility Needs for Virtual Apps

Soni Jiadani, senior vice president at Cisco stopped by theCube at VMware 2011 going on right now to discuss her company, and the IT industry as a whole (full video below). First of all, she started out by mentioning Cisco’s announcements from the conference.  The networking giant’s USC platform won the VMware benchmark for the ...