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

IBM bolsters analytics lineup with cognitive computing capabilities

IBM promises to bring the power of Watson to the enterprise with a set of cutting edge solutions for collecting and analyzing information at scale. Announced this week during the company’s annual Information on Demand Forum, the new offerings aim to “help companies more easily predict and respond to opportunities and challenges hidden in data.” ...

GE jumps on crowdfunding bandwagon with OurCrowd

Generic Electric’s tech ambitions go beyond the realm of networked machinery and embedded sensors. GE Ventures, the conglomerate’s newly established investment arm, recently entered a co-investment agreement with Israel’s OurCrowd to back early-stage technology companies. Founded in October 2012 by serial entrepreneur Jon Medved, OurCrowd operates an equity-based crowdsourcing platform that lowers the barrier of ...

Top vendors flex Cloud muscle at OpenStack Summit

In three short years, OpenStack transformed from an IaaS experiment into a multi-purpose cloud solution for the enterprise, complete with a burgeoning partner ecosystem and production-grade capabilities. The open source platform has emerged as a threat to traditional data center vendors, boasting over 100 customers worldwide according to a newly released user survey. Dozens of ...

Moving away from Itanium, HP nudges customers toward x86 HA

Oracle isn’t alone in wanting to abandon Intel’s ill-received Itanium platform. A year after derailing the database maker’s plan to halt software development for the chip, Hewlett Packard is porting its Nonstop line of high-availability systems to x86 server architecture. Originally marketed under the Tandem brand, NonStop is used primarily by telcos and financial service ...

Paxata CEO on startup success and data preparation | #BigDataNYC

Being a data analyst isn’t easy. Keeping information flowing for decision makers requires specialized knowledge and expertise at investigating patterns in raw numbers – but for the most part, it involves cleaning, changing, organizing and validating data for processing. This tedious and largely manual task takes up as much as 80 percent of analysts’ time, ...

Hortonworks President talks open source innovation | #BigDataNYC

Hortonworks’ business model hasn’t changed “one bit” since it spun off from Yahoo in 2011, according to company president Herb Cunitz. Speaking at SiliconANGLE’s recently concluded Big Data New York 2013 summit, Cunitz tells theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante that his firm is committed to delivering an open analytics stack for the enterprise. ...

WANdisco and Pivotal drive Hadoop adoption in the enterprise | #BigDataNYC

Technology alliances are becoming increasingly important for WANdisco as it pursues a distribution-agnostic strategy to carve out a slice of the fiercely competitive Big Data market, CTO Jagane Sundar noted in a recent discussion on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE. Appearing alongside Saravana Krishnamurthy of Pivotal, the executive gave us with an in-depth view of his company’s relationship ...

Atlas Venture’s Chris Lynch on the value in Big Data | #BigDataNYC

Wall Street may be abuzz over the Big Data boom, but Chris Lynch of Atlas Venture cautions against jumping on the bandwagon with rose-tinted glasses. The veteran investor stopped by theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s Big Data NYC 2013 event to share the venture capitalist angle on the transformative impact of information on business. Having held senior ...

Actian CTO on the digital data tap | #BigDataNYC

Actian, one of the biggest private software companies in the world, is pursuing an aggressive acquisition strategy in an effort to stay ahead of the Big Data curve. Mike Hoskins, the firm’s chief technology officer, stopped by theCUBE last week to discuss his ambitious growth plans and the bleeding edge trends he’s been keeping track of. ...

The Hadapt approach to making Big Data consumable | #BigDataNYC

Harnessing the power of Big Data is no small feat, requiring organizational commitment, substantial investments in infrastructure and talent and clear project objectives. There’s also the matter of putting that power in the hands of users, a challenge that Hadapt has set out to solve. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the startup offers a relational abstraction ...