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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Fluid Data is More than a Marketing Term for Dell

Bob Fine is the director of mobile marketing for Compellent, and he dropped by theCube with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman during the Dell Storage Forum this week. The first thing he decided to address was fluid data, one of the biggest topics at the gathering. He stressed that it’s more than just a ...

Dell Storage Forum Recap: The Strategic Shift and Latest Wave of Innovation

This week’s Dell Storage Forum can definitely be categorized as a big milestone for the company’s hardware line, which is currently undergoing a major shift across multiple fronts. First and foremost, storage is becoming a much bigger focus for Dell, and it shows. Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman talked about the relatively fast-paced shift in ...

SAP Makes a Move on End Users with Collab and Analytics

Business software make SAP is targeting business users and entrepreneurs in particular with a number of newly announced initiatives that rely heavily on partnerships. The firm revealed an update for the SAP StreamWork enterprise sharing app, introducing integration with Mikogom, a different kind of collaboration service that has the potential of introducing a lot of ...

NetApp Makes Big Data Push with Hadoop Box, Data Protection

NetApp stepped up its big data play a notch at this week’s Hadoop Summit, where it introduced a couple of new offerings that will undoubtedly reinforce the company’s foothold in this space. The first update is that the storage vendor has entered into a strategic alliance with Hortonworks to flesh out HDC, the partner-centric Hadoop ...

Thismoment Raises $22M to Further Solidify Social Marketing Position

Social media is a huge market that branches out across several different areas, and enterprise is among them. Thismoment is among the more prominent vendors that managed to capitalize on an organization’s need to manage its presence across Facebook, Twitter and mobile, evidently getting the attention of VCs along the way. Today the company announced ...

Chris Hansen of Gordon College Discusses Compellent On Campus

Chris Hansen is a systems manager at Gordon College, a title that involves managing the storage, replication and backup and recovery –as well some application level processes- across three different facilities. Gordon has been a Compellent  for about 6 years and Hansen, who’s been around for four, believes that was a very good decision. He ...

It’s Day 1 of Hadoop Summit. VMware, Pentaho Jump in the Fray

Yesterday before the Hadoop Summit even started, co-host Hortonworks decided to debut its product. It launched the HortonWorks Data Platform that the startup touts as a more stable and, more importantly, a partner-centric distribution of the big data-munching software. There’s also strong cloud support in the form of a high-availability edition that is integrated with ...

Latest Big Data Trends Revealed with Jaspersoft Q2 Index

Business intelligence software firm Jaspersoft operates JasperForge.org, a community site that, among other things, allows developers to download open-source big data technology. That covers pretty much all of the Apache projects associated with Hadoop, as well as many others, and Jaspersoft is making the most of it. The company tracks monthly connector downloads and provides ...

George Crump Discusses Dell and the Future of Storage in theCube

George Crump of Storage Switzerland attended this week’s Dell Storage Forum and stopped by theCube for a chat with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. In just over 20 minutes the two analysts managed to cover a number of different topics in surprising depth (full video below). Crump started by noting his personal observations this year: Dell is ...

Hadoop Summit 2012: New Products and New Insight

The fifth annual Hadoop Summit is a two-day event that will kick off tomorrow, and it’s also one of the two events that we’re covering this week. Event co-host Hortonworks and a few partners decided that they won’t be holding off their biggest updates until the gathering to starts, and as a result we’ve already ...