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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Box CIO on the intricacies of the job | #BigDataNYC

When Ben Haines joined Box as CIO six months ago, the former Pabst Brewing Co. executive wasted no time in getting up to speed with the intricacies of managing IT for a cloud service provider. A veteran of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) space, Haines started his first job in the tech industry with a ...

Attunity upgrades AWS replication service at AWS re:Invent 2013

Attunity announced on Tuesday that it has enhanced its CloudBeam file replication and transfer service to better accommodate Big Data workloads of varying sizes. The update introduces “quality of service” tiers that enable customers to optimize their cloud uplinks for cost and performance, with throughput speeds ranging from 200Mbps all the way up to 1Gbps. ...

Pivotal unleashes Cloud-based Big Data platform

Pivotal, the buzzed-about Big Data venture that was spun out of EMC and VMware earlier this year, is attempting to marry the power of Hadoop with the elasticity of the open cloud. The company’s newly unveiled Pivotal One platform is the culmination of $105 million in funding, months of work by hundreds of engineers and ...

NetApp sues rival over employee poaching

NetApp has filed suit against Nimble Storage, one of its fastest growing rivals, for allegedly engaging in anticompetitive behavior and colluding with three ex-employees to steal trade secrets. The vendor claims that the hybrid array startup lured former staffers to “join the company and to take NetApp confidential information with them.” It accuses Michael Reynolds, ...

QLogic gains in Fibre Channel market with Gen 5 adapters

Network equipment supplier QLogic is aiming for a comeback with its 16Gb FC “Gen 5” adapters, the first product family to support simultaneous multi-protocol traffic in Xeon E5-2600/1600 v2 environments. Citing independent research, the company reported on Monday that its share of the Fibre Channel market increased by 12 percent in the third quarter for ...

WANdisco top brass on Big Data disruption | #BigDataNYC

It’s easy to dismiss a disruptive trend as a bubble waiting to burst, yet the reverse holds true for Big Data, according to WANdisco CEO David Richards. The executive stopped by theCUBE with Jagane Sundar, the co-founder and CTO of the company, to detail how analytics are shaking up traditional technology and business perspectives. Richards ...

How the race to zero is changing Hadoop’s landscape | #BigDataNYC

The analytics space has come a long way since SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE first went on air in 2010. Whereas four years ago CIOs were just beginning to grasp the potential of Big Data, enterprises today are adopting Hadoop at an organizational level to make information a bigger part of their decision-making processes. Data holds immense value ...

Hortonworks + Microsoft : A team centered in open source innovation | #BigDataNYC

Big Data is shaking up traditional business intelligence, but that doesn’t mean the two technologies can’t thrive side by side. Herain Oberoi, the director of BI product management at Microsoft, stopped by theCUBE with Hortonworks vice president of products Bob Page to discuss how his company is reaching into the Hadoop ecosystem to bring analytics ...

WANdisco on moving the metadata : Hadoop coming of age | #BigDataNYC

For Hadoop to become commercially viable as a Big Data operating system, it will have to drive rapid insights from dynamic information streams and address enterprise reliability standards and compliance requirements. Hortonworks and WANdisco are bringing this vision closer to reality with an integrated solution that marries active-active replication and unified analytics to facilitate the ...

Weekly Big Data Review: cognitive computing and lightning-fast NoSQL

IBM is pushing the envelope of business analytics with new solutions for processing and operationalizing Big Data. Most notable among the latest additions to the company’s portfolio is SmartCloud Analytics Predictive Insights, a cognitive computing service that takes advantage of the technology behind Watson to let customers rapidly sift through large volumes of machine data. ...