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

Analytics Marathon Starts Ahead of Hadoop Summit 2012

Yahoo and HortonWorks are hosting the fifth annual Hadoop Summit this week, and the floodgates are already open. A day before the conference kicks off the firm already took the opportunity to announce two major developments, including the launch of its first actual product. In spite of the hype since its foundation last year, so ...

Cisco Channel Expands into Converged Infrastructure, Energy Management

Cisco has a huge partner base that reached a couple of milestones this week, thanks to a new partnership with NetApp, as well as a handful of updates from the Cisco Live gathering. Just a day after we’ve learned of the OEM agreement with Fusion-io the networking behemoth is teaming up with NetApp to promote ...

Broadcom’s CTO of Networking on Dell, Smart Networks and SDN

Nick Ilyadis is the chief technology officer for Broadcom’s networking and infrastructure group; he’s also attending this week’s Dell Storage Forum, and stopped by theCube to give his perspective on the event and the industry as a whole (see full interview below). The discussion started off with Illaydis’ personal opinion on Dell’s networking strategy. He ...

Fusion-io Lands Big OEM Contract with Cisco

Fusion-io‘s hardware runs fast. A guest post published on SiliconANGLE not too long ago went over some of the real-life improvements that can be achieved in a storage environment using company’s flash solutions, and this value prop is exactly what got Fusion to where it is today. It’s not only customers that identified this opportunity ...

The App Store Rivaling Facebook, Twitter at WWDC

Apple’s annual WWDC dev conference is underway, and while we can’t confirm whether or not the next iPhone is in yet, the company revealed some rather important figures concerning the App Store. Twitter has about 120 million accounts according to a recent survey, and Facebook is leading the charge with over 900 million users.  Apple ...

What’s Hot at Dell Storage Forum: Analytics, Security and Automation

The Dell Storage Forum managed to attract hundreds of partners and even more customers, and this year the channel has come prepared to capitalize on the gathering. Already three Dell-related items crossed the wire, and more are continuously pouring in as the event kicks into high gear. Infrastructure analytics provider SwiftTest is releasing the latest ...

What to Expect at Dell Storage Forum 2012

This week features the annual Dell Storage Forum, held on Monday to Wednesday, and SiliconANGLE and Wikibon will be at the event to deliver the traditional barrage of executive interviews and commentary with live broadcasts from theCube.  Kicking off this morning, the Dell Storage forum is the company’s latest opportunity to present their products and services ...

This Week in Big Data: HP Makes a Move; Oracle and ClickFox Follow Suite

This week featured the usual handful of analytics updates, although one particular vendor stood out.  Hewlett-Packard, or to be more precise on of its subsidiaries, unveiled not one but two new big data solutions that correlate on certain levels. Three days ago the sixth release of the Vertica analytical database was announced, along with a ...

Angel Caller Tops This Week’s Best BYOD Apps for iPad, Android

This week’s top app is the new Angel Caller First Analytics client for the iPad. The mobile software supplements Angel’s other call center solutions and allows workers to access call-in data on the go.  iPad Angel Caller First Analytics Caller First is a call center analytics app that offers much more than a stripped-down means ...

This Week in the Cloud: Integration, VMs and Offloaded Gaming

A number of major cloud updates crossed the wire this week, starting with the update to the Dell Boomi cloud-based integration platform. Boomi lets developers connect apps with data and other apps for less than what they would have to invest in more traditional alternative services. The 12 Summer edition introduces a number of new ...