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

Stealthy Startup Raises Funding, Talks of Upcoming Offering

New York-based stealth startup Dashlane secured an impressive $5 million in a first round of funding.  VC firms Rho Ventures and FirstMark Capital co-led the financing, and execs from both companies are joining Dashlane’s board of directors. Dashlane co-founder Bernard Liautaud, a venture capitalist who also co-founded and led Business Objects (up until HP acquired it for ...

Teradata Ups Security with Latest Version Release

Analytics veteran Teradata revealed Teradata Database 14 today.  The latest version of its offerings features a number of major new additions, including security enhancements, broader supports for data formats and more. Scott Gnau, president Teradata Labs, said, “This dramatically improves the data warehouse’s overall performance and manageability. Teradata has always been second to none in terms ...

The Mobile User’s Privacy vs. Law Enforcement, Users Win in California

Smartphones and tablets are gradually making their way towards gaining a significant place in every user’s personal cloud, from utility apps to playing a role in state-wide riots, and are subsequently storing more and more personal data and files. This, however, means that this data is exposed from another angle, and one of the main ...

EMC Lands UK Government Contract

Storage solutions maker EMC announced today that the British Isle of Man Government’s Information Systems Division chose its offerings to power an “IT transformation initiative” stretching the full length of the nation’s administration Using flash, EMC VPLEX technology and EMC Unified Storage, the Isle’s entire public service infrastructure is now hosted in a hybrid cloud. That includes ...

It’s Not Utopia without the Web

It would seem that the boundaries between these four have faded significantly, according to the new 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report. The study confirms that a sizable chunk of students and young professionals consider the internet as an “integral part of their lives.” “Air, Water, and Internet: One of every three college students and ...

Karmasphere Sends Hadoop Good Vibes with Latest Release

Analytics software maker   Karmasphere unveiled the latest version of Karmasphere Analyst Big Data today, its Hadoop-based data analytics offering.  The revamped product features a number of significant improvements, including a “highly integrated interface” that puts a big emphasis on ease-of-use, as well as a broad look into the deployment. David Menninger, VP and research director ...

EMC Beefs Ups Hadoop Support, Rolls out Big Data Appliances

EMC today expanded its data analytics portfolio by announcing two new Hadoop-based, big data analytics products that will help it grow its foothold in what is expanded to be a $200 billion market by 2015. The first offering is the Greenplum Analytics Workbench. It’s basically a super-sized Hadoop testing system created by the (still freshly ...

DataStax, Neo Bank on NoSQL, Investors Bank on Them

Demand for NoSQL database technologies is growing as companies are adapting to open-source, seeking an alternative to SQL that can handle the massive amounts of data they need to analyze. DataStax and Neo Technology are two of the firms competing in this crowded space, and both of them reached a significant milestone. DataStax announced the ...

Pandora, Media Clouds Expand Globally

More and more connected devices are shipped out to consumers every day, and content streaming is one of the main things they’re used for. That’s why analysts credit so much of the big data explosion to things like online video, and why services such as music streaming platform Pandora are deciding to boost their strategy ...

Cisco Adds Windows 8 Support, Strengthens Restructuring Plan

Cisco and Microsoft formed a partnership meant to attach Windows Server 8 Hyper-V users to the former’s virtual switching technology.  Previously, customers had to use a Microsoft virtual switch to connect to Cisco’s hardware, which resulted in less network transparency and overall costs.  Now, Windows Server 8 is integrated with Cisco’s hardware on the hypervisor ...