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

Linux: After 20 Years, Spurs Cloud/Social Media Innovation

Open-source is becoming a huge trend in the cloud and beyond, just as one of the original proponents of open-source turns 20. Linux has grown immensely since it was first conceived two decades ago, an essential era that was depicted in an infographic the organization recently released. The figures are all based on a poll conducted ...

Amazon Bats Eyes at Gov’t Sector with New Cloud Services

Today Amazon made an announcement that placed it two steps of the competition: it unveiled GovCloud, what is essentially an ultra secure version of six Amazon Web Services designed for the use of government agencies: Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage Service, Elastic Block Store, Virtual Private Cloud, Identity and Access Management, and CloudWatch. That number ...

VMware Announces Expanded Cloud Foundry Support

Virtualization giant VMware announced that it has expanded support for Cloud Foundry, its open-source PaaS offering.  As a part of a new partnership with Dell, the latter’s services business will integrate the beta platform-as-a-service solution with Ubuntu Linux, according to VMware VP Jerry Chen.  enStratus Networks, a developer of cloud management platforms, also said it ...

Lawsuit Implicates Cisco in Chinese Human Rights Violations, Censorship

Networking giant Cisco has been sued by Daniel Ward of law firm Ward & Ward on the behalf of Du Daobin, Zhou Yuanzhi, Liu Xianbin, and ten other Chinese political prisoners who requested to remain anonymous for fear of persecution. The lawsuit was filed with the US District Court in Maryland, and claims that Cisco technology ...

Pageonce Scores 5M Users Amidst Mobile Finance Competition

Pageonce, the operator of Pageonce Money & Bills, a mobile service that lets users manage their bank accounts from a number of mobile platforms, has reached a major milestone, with a reported five million registered users. The company says that adds up to five percent of the total number of smartphone holders in the U.S, ...

Joyent Opens up SmartOS in the Cloud

Cloud software developer Joyent announced that its SmartOS platform, which was once only a component of its SmartDataCenter and public cloud offerings, is now available under an open-source license.  Joyent CTO Jason Hoffmann refered to the server platform as the ““only modern OS” developed in the past decade during an interview with GigaOM. “Joyent SmartOS is ...

Nutanix Debuts Rounded-Out VMware Server

Startup Nutanix announced its first product, a virtualized server it named Complete Cluster. The 2U or 3.5 inch high VMware-based box comes equipped with four x86 nodes, each containing eight 8 Intel Xeon processors that add up to a combined 48 cores and 192GB, or  768GB RAM. Complete Cluster offers  20TB worth of Seagate SATA hard ...

Cisco Pulls the Plug on Green Program, More Layoffs

Cisco has shut down its Smart Connected Buildings program, according to a blog post by Laura Ipsen, Cisco’s SVP of  Global Policy and Government Affairs. The program was Cisco’s household energy management offering,  and was mostly based on technology developed by Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence – a company the networking giant acquired last year. eWeek Europe gave ...

Permabit Doubles Up on Dedupe Speed, Another Year of Milestones

Permabit’s got some good news this week, having increased its Albireo dedupelication offering’s speed increased by 250 percent to 400GB/sec.  The change has been implimented in just under a year.  In late 2010, the speed recorded by the Enterprise Strategy Group Lab (ESG) was 77GB/sec.  Another benefit of Albeiro is that it doesn’t slow down ...

Gusto for Tablet Business Users, and other iPad, Android Apps

The app ecosystem is growing, and the same can be said of every sub category across Apple and Android marketplaces. That includes the accelerating tablet business app market,  which has built up a lot of momentum thanks to the widening adoption of mobile computing in the enterprise.  This week, the first app to make it ...