Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
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 ...
DH2i Launches out of Stealth with SQL Virtualizer
A new startup called DH2i launched this week, bringing with it a new software offering that aims to make SQL databases more cost-effective in the era of Hadoop and unstructured data. The idea is to prevent SQL sprawl, a term that defines general messiness in IT environments due to an overflow of unmaintained instances, by ...
Dell Fits Flash into its Hybrid Cloud Vision
Dell is one of several IT mega-vendors trying to modernize its portfolio in order to catch up with the competition, coming both the big vendors and the smaller companies spearheading innovation. Cloud is one of the areas the manufacturer is focused on, and its latest initiative is realized via a partnership with Morphlabs. The firm ...
The 5 Top Green Data Centers – HP is Getting There Too
In another one of those special posts on the Wikibon blog the research foundation looks into the seven most eco-friendly facilities out there. The green data center trend is picking up, thanks to vendor recognition from IBM and other hardware giants, along with adoption on behalf of some of the industry’s biggest names – from ...
Copperegg Updates Real-Time Monitoring SaaS
Copperegg has just revealed the newest release of its RevealCloud real-time monitoring software-as-a-service. The company proclaims its client base is in the hundreds range, deployed across thousands of servers, thanks to several advantages its product includes to differentiate itself from alternatives. Installation and setup is supposed to be pretty simple–there are customized alerts to automatically notify ...
DataDirect Reveals Two New Data Crunching Appliances
DataDirect Networks unveiled its two latest offerings today for general availability – the DDN SFA10K-M and SFA10K-ME appliances, designed to handle large data-driven workloads. “One of the key attributes of today’s Big Data is the lack of predictability of data growth across customer environments,” said Alex Bouzari, CEO of DDN. “Today’s announcement of our SFA10K-M and ...
GridGain is Heady on Analytics with Version 4.0 Platform
GridGain announced the fourth and latest release of its Java-based open source analytics middleware, which features several improvements and expanded support. Version 4 introduces a new tool appropriately named the Monitoring and Management Console, aimed to help admins manage and shape command-line- and GUI-based grid topologies. Another new addition is the GridGain CloudBoot, a deployment and ...
SAP Posts 2012 Prediction, Larry Ellison not a Good Sport
Late this week business intelligence software maker SAP reported its annual earnings for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011. It also published its outlook for this year. Full year and non-IFRS (the international financial reporting standards, slightly different from the U.S’s GAAP) software and software-related revenue is forecasted to rise by 1o to 12 ...