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

Unicorn sighting: Apttus raises $88M at $1.3B valuation, launches AI called Max

WIKIBON By MARIA DEUTSCHER10 YEARS AGO

It’s a big day for Apttus Corp. and its cloud-based billing automation. The company, which helps organizations prepare invoices and contracts, today raised a hefty $88 million investment from a group of backers led by UAE-based fund GII. The funding brings its valuation …

Contrast Security raises $16M to help applications defend against attacks

WIKIBON By MARIA DEUTSCHER10 YEARS AGO

By their nature, the traditional security tools that organizations use to protect their in-house workloads don’t lend themselves too well to modern services deployed in the cloud or inside containers. As a result, chief information officers are turning to new-generation breach prevention …

Akamai picks up stream processing startup Concord

WIKIBON By MARIA DEUTSCHER10 YEARS AGO

Analytics appears to be taking on a bigger role in Akamai Technologies Inc.’s growth plans. The content delivery giant today announced that it has acquired Concord Systems Inc., the New York-based startup behind the open-source stream processing engine of the same name. …

Druva raises $51M to help companies protect their off-premises data

WIKIBON By MARIA DEUTSCHER10 YEARS AGO

Organizations have limited control over the business information that employees store in the cloud and on their mobile devices, but that information needs to be protected just as much as the data they keep behind the firewall. One of the vendors working …

Confluent retools Kafka for traditional enterprises

WIKIBON By MARIA DEUTSCHER10 YEARS AGO

As the Apache open source software Kafka continues to gain traction among large organizations for its ability to handle streaming data such as Twitter feeds, their requirements are becoming an increasingly important priority in the project’s roadmap. Confluent Inc. set out to …

Deep learning startup Skymind bags $3M to help companies build better AIs

WIKIBON By MARIA DEUTSCHER10 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence startups are emerging as a magnet for venture capital investment. Today, it was the San Francisco-based Skymind Inc. that took the spotlight after raising $3 million in funding from Chinese web giant Tencent Holdings Ltd., Y Combinator and three other …

SAP to invest $2.2B to expand its Internet of Things business

WIKIBON By MARIA DEUTSCHER10 YEARS AGO

With Gartner Inc. expecting enterprise investment in connected devices and related technologies to reach $1.4 trillion per year by 2020, it’s no surprise that information technology vendors are so enthusiastic about the trend. SAP SE became the latest to join the fray …

ProsperWorks bags $24M to fill Google Apps’ CRM gap

WIKIBON By MARIA DEUTSCHER10 YEARS AGO

While it has emerged as a serious contender to Microsoft Corp. in cloud-based productivity software, Google still lacks many of the features provided by its rival. But the search giant has a broad network of partners working to fill the gaps. Among …

Pentaho doubles down on Hadoop and Spark

WIKIBON By MARIA DEUTSCHER10 YEARS AGO

Large-scale analytics projects tend to incorporate numerous different components that must work seamlessly with one another for the combined whole to operate smoothly. As a result, data management vendors place a big emphasis on making their software interoperable with third party tools. …

Podium Data raises $9.5M to make Hadoop-based data lakes a reality

WIKIBON By MARIA DEUTSCHER10 YEARS AGO

Consolidating an organization’s disparate data management systems into one centralized repository can theoretically ease processing, but the approach has proven difficult to implement in practice. One of the vendors trying to remedy the situation is a Massachusetts-based startup called Podium Data Inc. …

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Maria Deutscher

Latest from Maria Deutscher

Unicorn sighting: Apttus raises $88M at $1.3B valuation, launches AI called Max

Contrast Security raises $16M to help applications defend against attacks

Akamai picks up stream processing startup Concord

Druva raises $51M to help companies protect their off-premises data

Confluent retools Kafka for traditional enterprises

Deep learning startup Skymind bags $3M to help companies build better AIs

SAP to invest $2.2B to expand its Internet of Things business

ProsperWorks bags $24M to fill Google Apps’ CRM gap

Pentaho doubles down on Hadoop and Spark

Podium Data raises $9.5M to make Hadoop-based data lakes a reality

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