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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Tegile says hybrid array erases price/performance tradeoff | #vmworld

In industry marketing circles, the term “hybrid array” is typically used to describe a data storage appliance that combines fast and expensive solid-state-memory with cheaper but slower mechanical disk. Tegile Systems Inc., which one of the faster-growing names in the ring, is venturing off the beaten track with a fresh product approach that it says ...

Amazon’s enterprise cloud locker comes online

Amazon.com Inc. officially entered the enterprise file syncronization race on Wednesday with the launch of Zocalo, the homegrown cloud locker it unveiled in July as a response to fast-growing corporate adoption of existing solutions such rival Microsoft Corp.’s OneDrive. Named after the Spanish word for town square, the platform is exiting its nearly two-month private ...

SAP presses deeper into China with new cloud data center

Business intelligence stalwart SAP SE is pushing deeper into the lucrative Chinese market for enterprise software with a new data center that will deliver cloud services to local firms. The Shanghai facility marks one of the first major milestones on the growth path of China Datacom Corp., the joint venture that the German software titan ...

Splunk rival gains ground with fresh funding

There’s a new kid in machine data town, and it just closed another funding round to go after the biggest name on the block. The Santa Clara, CA-based GlassBeam Inc. said this week that the latest $2 million raised from early-stage investment firm VKRM Group and new backer  SRI Capital will be used to accelerate ...

Cisco teams with SimpliVity as pile-on continues in red-hot hyper-convergence market

VMware Inc.’s newly confirmed foray into the burgeoning hyper-convergence space positions it to tap one of the fastest-growing segments of the data center market, but the move has not come without a price. The long-coming introduction of EVO:Rail at VMworld yesterday was met with the revelation that the virtualization top networking partner has allied with ...

VMware partners blitz VMworld 2014 with barrage of announcements

Once VMware Inc. finished unloading the major updates and new products it had saved for its annual customer conference this week, other companies took over with a steady stream of product reveals that persisted well into the latter part of VMworld 2014. Flash array maker SolidFire Inc. kicked off the second day of the summit ...

Report says NSA built Google clone to share private data

While companies like Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Autonomy unit struggle to sell CIOs on the virtues of using a single platform to search all of their data silos, a new report suggests the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is already exploiting the technology to its fullest, much to the dismay of privacy advocates everywhere. Documents handed over ...

String of partnerships underscore VMware’s campaign to diversify | #VMworld 2014

For a conference organized by the world’s largest server visualization vendor, VMworld 2014 places very little emphasis on servers. But that should hardly come as a surprise these days, given VMware Inc.’s aggressive bid to move beyond its hypervisor roots and up the enterprise food chain with value-added capabilities. Nowhere is that push more evident ...

Can analytics enable a leaner enterprise? | #HPBigData2014

The analytics movement has come far along its growth path since Colin Mahony, the head of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Vertica business, opened the company’s first annual conference on the database 12 months ago. Information gained in importance among decision-makers, new technology milestones have been reached and the hardware maker signed up yet more customers for the ...

U.S. Transportation Dept. jumps into the federal CDO craze

The public sector is taking the driver’s seat in embracing the emerging role of the chief data officer. The latest major federal institution to jump on the bandwagon is the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), which has appointed veteran technology leader Dan Morgan as its first CDO. An engineer by trade, Morgan brings more than ...