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

VMware Introduces VMware Zimbra 7 Amidst Executive Shake-up

Virtualization giant VMware announced VMware Zimbra 7, the latest version of its cloud email and collaboration platform. This announcement comes amidst some executive turbulence the company is going through regarding its President and other executives, but Zimbra’s shiny new features are helping to soften the blow. The platform is available starting today, and comes with ...

Last.fm Will Make Mobile Users Pay

After continuously and gradually losing ground and (millions of dollars) to competitors, the once completely free Last.fm’s music streaming apps will now become paid ones (unless your a WP7 user).  Last.fm claims it’s the world’s largest free music catalog, and as of next Tuesday, users who will want to stream music via the service to ...

Violin Memory Gets Stuffed with Cash, Juniper Networks Invests in $35M Round

Cloud scaling company Violin Memory announced it has raised $35 in Series B funding from multiple investors, including new investor Juniper Networks and Toshiba America Electronic Components.  A single Violin 3140 is said to support 40TB worth of Flash storage and 10K Flash devices. “Violin Memory is a true performance leader in high-end silicon storage,” said ...

Windows Phone 7 Mobile Apps Get Love Too

Digital marketplaces are cropping up all over the place, especially in the mobile sector.  An infographic by WP AppHab details the status of Windows Phone 7 from the app angle; all 8000+ of them. Paid apps have the largest share of the total figure at 725, while only 28% of all WP7 apps are free ...

Clouds Develop Over Open Territory: This Week’s Trends

SiliconANGLE is there at the Strata Conference and conducting interviews with all the biggest names attending, but the cloud has been active from other angels as well. The open cloud takes a very big chunk of our list, with Rackspace’s announcement of their latest OpenStack code release, Bexar, kicking things off. Bexar brings IPv6, Hyper-V, ...

Strata Conference Recap: Day 3 Keynotes

The O’Reilly Strata Conference has given us insight into the world of big data, how it’s being used and what the future holds for this specific aspect of cloud management.  We’ve been covering the conference extensively, highlighting keynotes and panels, as well as holding a number of interviews at our CUBE. Yesterday featured several speakers ...

Social Media and the Cloud Changing Corporate Culture

Social media can be a sticky subject for corporations, especially large and ominous ones that have been around since the age of the dinosaurs (that counts as anything dating back to pre-FDR days, by the way).  But social media has become an inexplicably intricate part of our daily lives, touching every aspect of our regular ...

Cisco to Acquire Inlet Technologies for $95M

WSJ reports that Cisco has made plans to acquire video solutions provider Inlet Technologies for $95 million to strengthen its video streaming offerings. Cisco is sitting on a huge stockpile of teleconferencing and home networking resources. This being a major segment for them to focus on, and the acquisition is aimed to further develop and ...

Making Data Work in the Real World: Theme of the Week at Strata 2011

We’ve been streaming live from the 2011 Strata Conference all week, and there were certainly a lot of things going on these past two days.  The first highlight to discuss is the Strata Real World Applications Panel which included of 4 industry experts: Kenneth Cukier, Adam Hurwitz, Jinesh Varia and Mario Veiga Pereira. Each of ...

OpenStack Steady on Update Releases, Bexar Widens the Cloud

Rackspace pushed out a Bexar code release for OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Storage today. The update comes with new features and a dedicated documentation site, preempting the launch of the next two code releases this Cactus and Diablo.  The Bexar release of OpenStack Compute introduces new enterprise features that streamline the installation process, allow users ...