Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
The Big Data Review: Autonomy, AlStor and the Political Angle
In spite of a slow news week during the holiday, several noteworthy items crossed the wire despite Thanksgiving 2012. Firstly, WANdisco announced that it’s buying AltoStor for $5 million. WANdisco makes proprietary clustering software for Fortune 500 companies, but it developed an interest in open-source and is an active contributor to the Apache community. It’s ...
Coraid Allies with Big Switch for Software-Defined Storage
Coraid and Big Switch have partnered up to deliver an integrated networked storage solution that brings together the best of both worlds: cloud orchestration and open-source network abstraction. “The modern datacenter is going through the biggest transformation it has seen in more than a decade,” said Kevin Brown, CEO of Coraid. “Datacenter architects today are ...
Your Data, My Data and Facebook Exchange Ads. RadiumOne Bets Big with FBX Integration
RadiumOne is integrating its social advertising platform with Facebook Exchange, the social media giant’s latest attempt to augment its somewhat fledgling business model. FBX was launched just a few days ago. It’s pegged as a real-time-bidding system for advertisers: a marketplace for ads that have been retargeted based on specific demographics’ browsing history. The program only ...
Tablet Market Diversifying, Apple OS Still Firmly in the Lead [REPORT]
Millennial Media released its Mobile Mix report for the month of November, summing up the trends it observed through its mobile advertising network. Apple remained dominant in Q3. The iPhone is still the number one device on Millennial’s platform with a 16 percent share of impressions, and Apple is the top vendor with total stake ...
The SiliconAngle on HP’s Autonomy Writedown: Big Financial Blow, but It’s Still Solid Tech
Hewlett-Packard created a stir this week after CEO Meg Whitman revealed that it made a $8.8 billion write down on Autonomy, a British software firm that the company acquired last year. SiliconAngle founding editor Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins covered the story in a NewsDesk session earlier this week (full video below), defending Autonomy’s technology in spite ...
NetApp Aids Cloud Transitioners with AWS On Premise Storage
NetApp just unveiled its newest offering, a storage solution that natively supports connectivity between on premise infrastructure and Amazon Web Services. It’s based on AWS Direct Connect. NetApp Private Cloud for AWS has several major advantages, according to its maker. For starters, it allows the user to plug their data center directly into the Amazon ...
HP Discover 2012: Expect More Ways to Harness Data, Manage Services
HP Discover 2012 conference will be held in Frankfurt, Germany through December 4-6. The event is the vendor’s biannual opportunity to showcase its achievements from the past six months, and strengthen its ties with its massive ecosystem of partners and client organizations. Chief executive Meg Whitman will be clearing her schedule to speak at the ...
Is 40M Licenses for Windows 8 a Triumph?
Consumers and organizations purchased over 40 million Windows 8 licenses since the operating system launched in stores on October 26, according to Tami Reller. The Microsoft executive, who serves as the company’s chief marketing officer and CFO, revealed this milestone during her keynote at this week’s Credit Suisse 2012 Annual Technology Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. “The ...
Samsung’s Not-So-Lofty Sales Goals and a More Responsible Labor Outlook [VIDEO]
Samsung is stepping up its game both in the mobile space and internally, with a new sales milestone and plans to improve labor conditions in its Chinese plants. According to the latest figures from the manufacturer the Galaxy Note II phone-tablet hybrid shipped over 5 million units to date. Samsung’s flagship phablet hit 3 million ...
Prediction Analytics Made to Order: More BI for HANA
BI software maker SAP is introducing a new product that will help businesses create custom predictive analytics models. SAP Predictive Analysis can run as a standalone solution or in conjunction with HANA, the company’s increasingly popular database system. The new offering provides users with a relatively easy to use environment for collecting data, manipulating it, ...