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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Broad support for Pivotal spin off : Cloud Foundry goes to independent foundation

Pivotal, the buzzed-about cloud analytics venture that spun out of EMC and VMware early last year, is establishing a formal open governance model for Cloud Foundry to give the community a bigger voice in the development of the platform. The reins will be handed over to an independent foundation that is set to begin operations ...

The state of Big Data : Trends in the trenches | #BigDataSV

These past couple of weeks have been busy for theCUBE, with a continuous stream of new and repeat guests making appearances during SiliconANGLE’s BigDataSV event at the Hilton Santa Clara and an equally packed agenda over at the O’Reilly Strata Conference across the street. Our coverage kicked into high gear after the release of Wikibon’s ...

IBM moves up the cloud stack with Cloudant buy

Broadening its definition of the cloud, IBM is moving beyond Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as part of an ambitious push to capture a larger slice of the burgeoning enterprise cloud market. But unlike the retail giant, Big Blue has decided to take the inorganic route and buy out firms with established offerings, a strategy that allowed it ...

MapR continues on aggressive expansion path with new Asia Pacific office

MapR last week expanded its presence in the fast-growing Asia Pacific region with the opening of an office in Seoul meant to serve as a platform for addressing the accelerating adoption of Big Data among South Korea’s largest companies. The move comes five months after the Hadoop distributor arrived in Japan, and marks the latest ...

FalconStor bounces back from 15 quarters of loss with sweeping product improvements

A few days after reporting its first profitable quarter in four years, FalconStor has announced three major product updates that bring the software-defined data center yet another small step closer to reality. Most notable is the latest version of the company’s aptly-named Optimized Backup and Deduplication Solution, which wraps a common interface around its ultra-fast ...

The predictive enterprise : Alpine Data Labs’ Bruno Aziza on effective analytics at the organizational level | #BigDataSV

The analytics vendor landscape can be roughly divided into two camps. There are those championing the traditional open-source approach to Big Data, like Hortonworks, and then there are the firms that are diverging from the beaten path and differentiating with proprietary technology. Opponents of the latter model argue that a single company cannot possibly sustain ...

Send in the clouds : Stu Miniman + the Storage Alchemist on cloud innovation in the enterprise and beyond

Cloud computing is sweeping through the enterprise, giving rise to new challenges and opportunities that CIOs simply cannot afford to ignore. Steve Kenniston, an industry veteran best known for his personal blog The Storage Alchemist, appeared in the latest episode of SiliconANGLE’s Cube Conversations series to discuss the state of the market and the technologies ...

NetApp consolidates SAN, NAS and storage virtualization into hybrid platform

NetApp on Wednesday introduced a new line of scale-out hybrid arrays designed to address rapidly growing capacity demands in the enterprise without overburdening IT organizations. The FAS8000 series packs several major improvements, including the addition of Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge processors and the ability to support up to three times as much flash memory as ...

BMC ups ante on self-service IT with portfolio refresh

BMC Software, a longtime maker of IT automation solutions that went private last year after more than two decades on the stock market, has kept busy since leaving the public eye. The company this week announced the next generation of its help desk and service management solutions, which have been infused with social functionality and ...

Zettaset wins patent for “split brain resistant failover” in Hadoop

Zettaset, a fast-growing developer of management software for Hadoop, has been awarded a patent for the high-availability (HA) component that ships with its flagship Orchestrator solution. Issued on November 26, 2013 and announced last week, U.S. Patent #8,595,546 covers a technique for “split brain resistant fail-over in high availability Hadoop clusters.” The technology is fully ...