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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Dell Cares about Storage, Beefs Up Portfolio

Dell is investing a lot of effort into its storage business in order to stay relevant to the market, and is competing with the four main players as a result: EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.  The company’s latest development in this area is the addition of  scalable network-attached storage and unified storage capabilities to its ...

Bankrupt Satellites for Dish Network: TerreStar Marks Ergen’s Latest Snatch

Charles Ergen’s Dish Network has bid $1.375 billion in cash and the assumption of risks involving license transfers for TerreStar Networks. Dish has been selected by the bankrupt satellite company to be the opening bidder in an upcoming auction. The reason Dish is after TerraStar includes a number of things, though the main thing that ...

SAP Reveals Three New Business Intelligence Products

German business software-maker SAP promised its investors back at SAP SAPphire that it will more than double its revenues by 2015, thanks to a big push on data analytics and mobile. The latest step the company has taken comes with today’s announcement that Crystal Server 2011 and Business Objects Edge 4.0 will be rolled out ...

Cisco Getting its Act Together, but Competition is Catching Up

Cisco is putting a lot of effort into regaining the momentum and growth it has lost throughout the past 12 months. The company is now shifting its focus back to its core businesses, with the most recent example being a new datacenter fabric launch. The company today announced the Cisco High-Performance Trading Fabric designed especially ...

EMC Isilon Wins in Big Data Storage

EMC announced today that Industrial Color, the company that came up with online digital photo workflow has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage platform that supports the various services it offers. Some of Industrial Color’s client base includes  Victoria’s Secret, NBC Universal, Kohls, Showtime Networks, Kate Spade, and Warner Bros. “Using EMC’s ...

NetApp Releases First Update to Latest OnCommand Version

Storage company NetApp announced the first update to the latest version of its OnCommand cloud management offering. The latter was first unveiled a few weeks ago, and includes service analytics, optimization and capacity planning tools as well as a number of other features. These include monitoring of both virtual machines and storage pools, orchestration, automated ...

HP’s Biggest Executive Shuffle of the Year

Hewlett-Packard announced on Monday that it has gone through one of the biggest staffing changes in its history. Many execs, some of which are among the most associated with HP are involved, including Ann Livermore. Livermore, who has been with HP for 29 years, will step down as the head of the company’s enterprise business ...

Verizon Lands More Partners for Mobile Wallet Project

Verizon, currently the largest mobile carrier in the U.S, is investing a lot in a relatively new trend that has a great deal of potential: the mobile wallet. Verizon’s goal is to set  up a service through which customers can pay for items they purchase online – and make this service more worthwhile that the ...

Google Responds as More Malware Attacks End Users Trust Factor

Google pulled 10 malicious apps from the Android Market, after the latest mobile vulnerability was revealed by Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor at North Carolina State University. Jiang published an analysis of rogue code – codenamed Plankton – the malware he discovered in 10 apps.  He reported his findings to Google: “It has the ability ...

Xeround Releases Cloud Service for MySQL Applications

Cloud database service provider Xeround announced today that its cloud database service for MySQL applications has hit general availability. The service went through a nine-month beta period that started in September last year and already managed to gain 2000 users, according to Xeround. The company also said several customers are using the offering in live ...