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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NetApp CEO Visits theCube at VMWorld 2011

Tom Georgens, chief executive of  NetApp, sat down at theCube at VMWorld 2011 with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. He started talking about his company’s fiscal performance–how this year segments such as the public sector and financial services took a hit–but growth remained steady over the board compared to last year’s 30 percent YoY growth.  The ...

Spotlight VMworld Panel: How the Cloud Affects Backup

Dave Vellante held a backup panel at VMworld 2011 with three industry insiders, Brad Maltz, CTO at ICI Drew Kramer, VP of technical operations for VMware; and Jerome Wendt, founder and lead analyst at DCIG (video below). They discussed how the cloud is affecting backup, and driving this industry to keep up with the current ...

EMC’s Steve Manley Talks Backup, Dedupe at VMworld 2011

Steven Manley, CTO of EMC’s Backup and Recovery group attended VMworld and made his first appearance in theCube.  He discussed backup, where EMC stands in this market, and his take on the industry. Manley kicked of the convo with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante by talking a bit about his role in the company, following with his ...

MapR No Longer the New Kid on the Block, Raises $20M

MapR, the startup that developed the M3 and M5 Hadoop distributions competing with Cloudera’s dominant distribution as well as the several other players currently hitting the market, has secured $20 million in venture capital. The funding round was led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates. “MapR ...

Fusion-io Launches ioCache at VMworld 2011

Fusion-io had some big news coming out of VMworld, the announcement of ioCache. The new offering is the fruit of a one year-long team up with ioTurbine, a developer of virtualized caching software in acquired only three weeks ago. Fusion-io CEO David Flynn took the opportunity to dismiss some speculations claiming that his company’s intention ...

VMworld 2011 News Reel: VDI, Networking & More

It’s day 1 of the VMworld 2011 conference, and we are already seeing a host of vendors and existing partners further aligning themselves with EMC’s virtualization subsidiary. Virsto, a startup that developed software designed to reduce VM storage costs, announced the upcoming beta version of its offering for vSphere 4.1. Virsto has been offering a ...

Hurricane Irene Could be the Next Target for Phishers

Spear-phishing has proven to be a far more effective means of breaching a network, whether that of a consumer or an enterprise, than it has been for the past few years. Major events, such as the tsunami and following earthquake that struck Japan not too long ago, act as triggers for wide-scale spear-phishing campaigns. Hurricane ...

Hewlett-Packard Launches Cloud-in-a-Box at VMworld

Hewlett-Packard rolled out VirtualSystem, a cloud-a-box-offering, at VMworld today.  The offering blends HP storage, servers and networking gear with the latest version of VMware ESXi and the vSphere 5.0 VM management tools, as well as HP’s Insight automation software. Customers can use existing vSphere licenses, or buy ones preinstalled on the pre-configured hardware. The VirtualSystem rack ...

Microsoft Takes a Jab at VMware, Salesforce

Microsoft is taking several approaches to try and grab customer interest to its products and away from what it competitors are offering.  Its recent marketing efforts, with no real surprise about their timing, come just in time for some major rivaling events. Just in time for the VMworld 2011 conference that kicked off today, Microsoft ...

SunGard Launches New Recovery Suite with VMware Support

IT services firm SunGard announced a new managed recovery suite called  Recover2Cloud.  The suite incorporates several services that encompass monitoring, troubleshooting and testing along with deployment as well as recovery. “SunGard’s Recover2Cloud services enhances its existing portfolio with important features like SLA guarantees, service automation and recovery orchestration, and enterprise-class services,” says Laura DuBois from ...