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

Cisco Grows and Loses in the WLAN Market

Networking giant Cisco is still the dominant player in the networking industry, despite a substantial decline throughout the past few quarters.  This was enough to get CEO John Chambers to rethink his strategy and start a recovery process, and that may already be bearing its first fruits for Cisco. An IDC report picked up by ...

Zenprise Gets $30M to Extend Cloud Product Portfolio

Zenprise, a company that offers a mobile management platform for enterprises, announced a $30 million funding round led by the Silicon Valley-based Greylock Partners. Existing investors Rembrandt Venture Partners, Ignition Partners and Shasta Ventures are participating in the financing. “This year has been one of tremendous growth for Zenprise, driven by companies seeking to balance Bring-Your-Own-Device ...

XIO’s Hyper ISE Offers SSD Performance at Disk Prices

Xiotech, which has changed its name to XIO as of August this year, is betting a lot on its Hyper ISE (Integrated Storage Elements) product. CEO Alan Atkinson and chief enterprise architect Robert Stevenson discussed further in an interview with The Register. Hyper ISE is a high-performance storage system that’s designed for virtualized deployments and ...

DataDirect Networks Unveils Major WOS Upgrades

Big data-focused storage solutions provide 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 ...

Verizon Set to Unveil Dual-Persona Mobile Software with VMware

This week at the San Diego CTIA Enterprise & Applications tradeshow, Verizon is set to announce dual-persona mobile software in partnership with VMware. It would allow business users to have two phones in ones, where personal data and business data are stored in two different segments. The advantages of this include economics, convenience on the ...

Box Closes $81M Round, Biggest Round to Date

Box.net, a cloud storage provider, announced it’s closed a massive $81 billion round of funding. New investors Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates chipped in, alongside existing backers Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth. “Even though the funding was announced in two stages–an $18.6 million D-1 round from insiders in ...

Bottleneck Woes in Virtualization: Infographic

Tintri, a provider of a virtualization optimized storage system, released an infographic entitled “Storage Holds Back Virtualization Deployments,” in which it laid out the obstacles and demands from their VM customers. In 2011, thirty-six percent of companies are more than 75 percent virtualized, and that number is expected to grow to 65 percent by the ...

Nodeable Socializes your Servers

Nodeable, a startup that raised $2 million from True Ventures, Crosslink Capital, and Barton Asset Management, announced its “collaborative systems management tool for the cloud.”  The service aims to make the IT department’s day easier by wrapping up technical lingo and code with a social layer that can be compared with Facebook and Twitter streams and language. ...

Facebook Appeals to Gamers and Developers with New iPad App

Facebook launched the first version of its iPad app this week, which is available immediately via the App Store. It also extended its Facebook Platform to its iOS apps and mobile site, allowing developers to reach the 350 million users that access the social media site via these channels every month according to the company. ...

SAP Ventures Puts $10M in One97

SAP Ventures, the software maker’s VC arm, invested $10 million in One97 Communications, an India-based company that provides services to telcos and mobile users. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and current head of the company said One97 will use the capital to expand its business in Asia and Africa, boost R&D and hire new talent. ...