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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Tasso Argyros Talk’s about Aster’s MapReduce Angle, Hadoop Ecosystem in theCube

Tasso Argyros, vice president of marketing and product management for Aster Data talked with Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly in Hadoop World 2011 about Hadoop, the market and in particular his company’s offering. The discussion kicked off with a look back on Aster Data’s acquisition by Teradata, and the resources–i.e. deeper integration with the data ...

Informatica EVP James Markarian Talks Hadoop in theCube

James Markarian, executive vice president and general manger of Informatica’s Enterprise Integration unit, stopped by theCube at Hadoop World 2011 to give us a look at the ecosystem from his company’s perspective. Informatica has seen immense growth since Markarian joined the company, and it’s now expanding into the unstructured data world. One of the latest ...

FalconStor Hires New Executives, Reports Q3 Earnings

FalconStor appointed four new executives to key positions in the company over the week, shortly after revealing its quarterly earnings. The cloud enterprise storage and backup solutions maker hired a number of industry veterans to fill a few critical positions in the company’s core management team.  Bryan Urquhart is FalconStor’s new chief financial officer, Philippe ...

Fusion-io Files for $350M Registration Statement

Flash-based storage solutions vendor Fusion-io announced it has filed papers with the SEC purposing a public offering of its stock. The company went public not too long ago and already it’s looking to sell about $350 million worth of its shares, of which $100 million will be offered by Fusion-io and the rest by existing ...

DataDirect Networks Gets Fresh with WOS 2.0

Big data-focused storage solutions provider DataDirect Networks announced the newest version of its Web Object Scaler, which features big performance improvements and data protection enhancements. “As more organizations move toward cloud paradigms, there is an exponential business need to globally ingest, store, process, replicate and retrieve hundreds of millions or billions of objects per hour ...

Splunk for Hadoop Aids Big Data Strategy for Social Sphere

Splunk, a big data aggregation and intelligence tool, is launching in a special edition for Hadoop. Appropriately named Splunk Enterprise with Hadoop, the solution integrates the analytics engine into Splunk in order to provider a number of key advantages to users that leverage both technologies. “This integrated offering provides access to Splunk’s real-time capabilities, ease-of-use ...

Charlie Miller’s Latest Security Revelation Rocks the Apple App Store

Charlie Miller, a former NSA analyst that now works for security firm Accuvant, has taken it as a personal challenge to find exploits in Apple’s products since 2007. After his latest discovery however this dedication backlashed, and Apple went as far as terminating his developer license. Apple’s fairly criticized approach of controlling its ecosystem by ...

ActiveState Rolls Out New Features to Stackato

ActiveState updated its flagship offering dubbed Stackato, adding new management and monitoring capabilities to the private platform-as-a-service that freshly enters into public beta. ActiveState, the company behind the Python and Perl programming languages, has built its offering on top of VMware’s open-source Cloud Foundry. This latest release introduces the upgraded Stackato Admin Dashboard, which now ...

Millennial Media Expands Mobile Operations to Asia

Independent mobile ad network Millennial Media is expanding to the Asian mobile market, which has a very rapidly growing userbase that is expected to see a lot of growth throughout the next few years.  This trend has led several companies across multiple industries to establish a foothold in the region. The man who is placed ...

Samsung VP Latest to Jump Ship

There have been a few notable executive-level changes recently, the latest being Samsung’s vice president of consumer and enterprise services, Gavin Kim. He’s switching over to Microsoft, where he now serves as the general manager of its Windows Phone unit according to an AllThingsD report. “I will be responsible to help set the future direction ...