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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Zenoss Heads to Sea with 25-Year Research Project

Physical, virtual and cloud management solutions vendor Zenoss announced that its Zenoss Enterprise offering has been selected to be the observatory management system of the Regional Scale Nodes (RSN). RSN is a component of the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Project, and a 25-year research project in or exploration and scientific discovery in ...

Business Intelligence Gets Big Data Boost from SAP Ventures

Geographical business intelligence solutions provider Aletryx announced it has raised $6 million in funding from SAP Ventures Fund I. The investment will be used to accelerate Aletryx growth, expand go-to-market executions and support potential acquisitions. “Alteryx is going to be a significant player in the sea-change occurring in Business Intelligence (BI) and SAP Ventures is ...

Datacenter Fabric War Heating Up, Alcatel-Lucent Fleshes Out AFN

The datacenter fabric market is a very hotly debated one at SNW this week, and for a good reason too. The biggest names in the $21 billion Ethernet switches industry are constantly pushing out new products and promoting existing ones – and Alcatel-Lucent is a part of this trend. Despite the company only holding a ...

Virsto’s New Storage Virtualization Software: Reduces Costs, Increases Efficiency

Today at the SNW conference, virtual servers and desktop solutions provider Virsto Software announced Virsto VDI, a hypervisor-based storage virtualization solution designed to drastically reduce the costs of virtual desktops deployment. The offering also aims to increase performance and end users’ desktop experience, and currently supports Citrix XenDesktop and Microsoft VDI running on Windows Server ...

Scality and CTERA Networks Scale the Cloud with Storage and Data Protection

Cloud storage and data protection are two of the hottest topics discussed in the SNW Spring Conference, which kicked off yesterday. And as two of the most prominent trends in the IT industry, quite a bit of updates crossed the wire lately.  The latest one is an announcement by Scality, the developer of the highly ...

Couchbase Releases Membase Server for Mac OS X, Refreshes Couchbase Server

Couchbase, a NoSQL database company formed by the merger of CouchOne and Membase, today announced the Membase Server for Mac OS X – the community release have been rolled out today. Membase Server is an interactive web application scale data management optimization product, which has now extended its reach to the “Mac-centric, web-focused developers” audience. ...

Marvell’s New DRAM, SSD-based Accelerator Card: A Server Level Industry First

Drive chip maker Marvell announced in the SNW conference today it will release the DragonFly Virtual Storage Accelerator (VSA) later this year. The product is an accelerator card which aimed to deliver a tenfold increase in storage network throughput by caching and sorting a data in the server prior to sending it to back-end arrays, ...

OpenStack Grows Some More: rPath Adds Support

The open source cloud is beginning to pick up steam, as did in a number of other areas in cloud tech, and today yet another cloud service provider joined the movement. rPath, a provider of software system construction, deployment, configuration and maintenance automation IT-as-a-Service for physical, virtual and cloud environment, announced it has jumped on ...

SNW Spring 2011: Storage, Cloud and the Big Data Explosion

One of the world’s largest storage and IT infrastructure conference, SNW Spring 2011, has kicked off today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. The event is bringing together some of the top industry insiders and numerous leading companies to discuss and provide an insight into storage, infrastructure and everything in between ...

SNW Conference Kicks Off Today: What the Inside of a Cloud Looks Like

SNW, the largest storage and IT infrastructure conference of its kind, hosted by Computerworld, will be held in the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara through April 4-7. The event will feature 15 topical tracks including: storage management, cloud computing, cloud storage, data protection, backup and achieving as well as solid state storage, energy efficiency, ...