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

Tax Team Up in the Cloud: Automation Across SAP, QuickBooks to Start

Mulesoft offers a hosted integration platform which it refers to as the Mule iON integration platform as a service (iPaaS,) and the solution sports a line-up of applications that make up its ecosystem. The newest is called iApp4Tax, borne of a collaboration between Mulesoft and Avalara, a software developer that makes tax management and reporting ...

Cloud Accounts for 35 Percent of SMB Primary Backup

While storage titan EMC, HP and IBM are racing towards a competitive edge in the never-ending enterprise hardware wars, cloud backup providers are also seeing their market expand – and competition is growing as a result. A study by StorageCraft and Symform observed the backup and recovery practices of 600 small and medium businesses–specifically how cloud services ...

BYOD with IBM and SAP Australia

Mobile workers are becoming a trend, and not just in the IT industry. One of the major indications validating this market’s exponential growth is that several of the largest vendors are jumping on the same bandwagon, including mega-vendors such as IBM and SAP. These two companies are targeting the same market, and are both eating ...

Dell Expands Partner Relations, Enhances Feedback Aggregation

Dell had a few updates this week, including several developments that concern its partner ecosystem and the overhaul of its IdeaStorm product suggestions site. The first item was picked up by the UK’s Register. The hardware maker is expanding  its foothold in Europe via a new extension of a 14-month old partnership with IT solutions ...

Clio Opens Platform with New API

Clio is a SaaS provider that managed to come up with its own unique twist to the cloud, which has been reinvented more than a handful of time by the many different vendors in this increasingly crowded market. Clio did so by choosing a very niche market: lawyers. Smaller firms and independent practitioners can’t afford ...

Citrusleaf Introduces Smart Replication for Hadoop

Database solutions developer Citrusleaf launched a new offering for general availability today – a replication engine that runs on top of its flagship Citrusleaf 2.0 NoSQL platform. Cross Datacenter Replication (XDR) is unique thanks to the fact it addresses a couple of different points the company’s customers are undoubtedly looking at, and delivers a good ...

How the Hadoop Ecosystem is Evolving: the VC Perspective

The big data ecosystem is marching forward, constantly being shaped by the emerging players, as well as more established vendors spearheading the charge. The same can be said of the venture capitalists and investors that stand behind these startups, and the numbers are all there to back this up. Last year ServicesANGLE editor Alex Williams ...

Engine Yard Strengthens Partner Relations with New ‘Tracks’

PaaS provider Engine Yard, the particular favorite of Rails and PHP developers, announced a big moved designed to bolster its ecosystem and make its platform more attractive on the broader scope. The company put an emphasis on categorizing its partners, and developed specialized ‘tracks’ for them which they can follow in order to maximize the ...

dotCloud Gets an Upgrade – More Support and Scalability

dotCloud is a PaaS provider with a very simple agenda: supporting as many languages and databases as possible, with the intent of providing developers with flexibility otherwise not be available on competing platforms. Today the company made the latest push to strengthen this plan. As of this morning dotCloud offers three new things to its ...

Cloudera Adds Two New Executives to Boost Expansion

Cloudera is one of the handful of companies spearheading the enterprise solutions around big data and Hadoop, the open-source analytics engine that has been transformed from being an Apache-license to a full-blown industry trend. Cloudera is high up in this ecosystem’s food chain, and its latest hires are meant to further promote its status in ...