Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
Moving up the stack is one of the most tried-and-true strategies for standing out from the intense competitive in the data center, but Nutanix Inc. is bringing a whole new meaning to the term with the latest iteration of the software powering …
AppFormix launches out of stealth to solve containers’ noisy neighbor problem
Another week, another new startup jumping aboard the container ship. AppFormix Inc. is launching out of stealth this morning with a new solution that takes aim at one of the biggest obstacles standing the way of the lightweight virtualization format from achieving mainstream …
A niche is reborn as JethroData raises $8.1 million for SQL-on-Hadoop engine
The days when SQL was one of the main flash points in the Hadoop ecosystem are long gone, with every major distributor now offering its own implementation in one form or another. But a startup called JethroData Ltd. now hopes to bring …
Arcadia exits stealth with $11.5 million for Hadoop-based BI platform
The Hadoop ecosystem is growing even more crowded today with the launch of a new startup called Arcadia Data Inc. that hopes to help business analysts become more productive in how they analyze their vast troves of unstructured information. Its plan for …
Menlo Security exits stealth with $25 million to eliminate infected emails
Menlo Security Inc. has come up with a unique way to set itself apart from the scores of other startups promising to help companies defend themselves against hackers that may block one of the most widely-abused attack vectors in the enterprise once …
What you missed in Big Data: Democratized machine learning
The past week saw the analytics movement move yet closer towards its goal of making the power of data ubiquitous the enterprise on the back of major new advances in the startup and open-source worlds. But it’s the former that set the …
What you missed in Cloud: Secure interoperability
The hybrid cloud returned to the center of attention this week after the OpenStack movement’s efforts to establish a common operating paradigm across on- and off-premise infrastructure marked its latest victory with the addition of a key international provider to the fray. Canada’s …
HP’s new open-source development framework heralds a major shift
Between the new storage systems and management software announced at its annual customer conference this week, Hewlett-Packard sneaked in a small present for developers that promises to take some of the work out of building complex corporate applications. But what the framework …
CA continues Agile buying spree with Grid-Tools acquisition
A week after paying $480 million to buy one of the biggest names in the Agile development world for its project management services, CA Technologies Inc. is redirecting the acquisition train to its own partner ecosystem with the purchase of Grid-Tools Ltd. …
Hadoop gets another open-source stream processing engine courtesy of DataTorrent
A year to the week after launching its homegrown in-memory stream processing platform into general availability, DataTorrent Inc. is releasing the code for the core execution engine under a free license. The move levels the playing field against the open-source alternatives that …