Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
Microsoft joins October CRM frenzy with big price cuts
Microsoft Corp. is following its top rivals into the customer relationship management (CRM) frenzy that has been raging for the last week and a half with the introduction of a new cloud suite designed to help salespeople become more productive. Copying one of its most historically successful tactics in the even-more-cutthroat infrastructure-as-a-service space, the Redmond ...
The Koality appeal: Maximize coding efficiency “because engineers are very expensive”
Docker Inc. is putting its new funding to good use with the acquisition of Koality Inc., a fellow startup that sells software testing tools geared towards enterprise developers with strict security standards to uphold. The deal puts the Linux containerization specialist in a better position to monetize its namesake project, which allows users to package ...
Salesforce.com overhauls core services in a taste of things to come at Dreamforce summit
Taking a page from the VMware Inc. book of earlier-than-expected product reveals, Salesforce.com is rolling out a string of major updates in advance of its Dreamforce ’14 summit next week that provide an early taste of what is shaping up as a historic conference. The cloud juggernaut is also taking the opportunity to reinforce its ...
Infrastructure boss talks operations behind building a $750M financial platform | #OOW14
When a company spends $750 million and a decade to develop a software platform that can make or break its future, it can’t afford to fall into the all-too-common trap of becoming bogged down with the complexity of the underlying infrastructure. In an effort to avoid that fate, SEI Investments Co. launched a major hardware ...
Good Technology follows up fresh funding with mobility hub
Good Technology Inc. became the latest enterprise software vendor to jump into the cloud fray on Monday after unveiling two new managed solutions that attempt to put a fresh spin on mobile work amid rapidly increasing competition from an expanding pool of rivals. The launch comes hot on the heel of the company raising $80 ...
VCE unveils industry’s first all-flash converged appliance and more in landmark launch
VCE is kicking off the week with the introduction of seven new converged infrastructure solutions that set several records both within its own portfolio and for the broader marketplace. The launch represents one of the most significant yet for the firm, a joint venture between stalwart EMC Corp. and networking kingpin Cisco Systems Inc. tasked ...
The inside track on Oracle’s open-source strategy | #OOW14
Oracle Corp. and the term “open-source” are rarely featured in the same sentence, but according to the man who leads the development of the firm’s community databases, it’s actively trying to participate in the ecosystem.. Not only that, but the movement represents a key component of the vendor’s long-term product strategy. Appearing on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE ...
Couchbase Server 3.0 turns up the memory valve to power new use cases
Couchbase Inc. is doubling down on the in-memory component of its namesake database with a new version it calls the most significant iteration of the platform in its three-year history. Among the more than 200 features and enhancements introduced with the landmark update are several distinctive capabilities that up the performance ante against competing non-relational ...
ARM builds a free OS for the Internet of Things to block out rivals
ARM Holdings Inc., the company behind 99 percent of the world’s mobile chips, is pushing up the competitive food chain with a free operating system for embedded processors that aims to solidify its grip on the burgeoning connected universe and open a lucrative new revenue stream in the process. The pivot comes as arch-rival Intel ...
What you missed in Big Data: real-time analytics racing forward in the enterprise
Real-time processing has been the dominant theme in the analytics world this past week, with several major updates from different parts of the industry adding up to provide a sudden burst of momentum for the fast-emerging paradigm. It all started when Apache Storm graduated from incubation to take its place among the top-level projects that ...