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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SAP overhauls cloud-based training hub

SAP is taking a page from Cloudera’s book, doubling down on education as part of a push to regain solid footing in the modern enterprise, where an increasing emphasis on productivity growth is driving a transition from traditional on-premise software to cloud services. The German business intelligence giant last week updated its online training center in ...

What you missed in Big Data : New solutions shift analytics landscape

It’s been an exciting month for the Big Data ecosystem, with Cloudera repackaging its portfolio in an effort to make Hadoop more accessible to organizations of different sizes. Two emerging players also made headlines with new solutions for developing analytical applications. Announced on Monday, the Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub combines the vendor’s open source distribution ...

Industry leaders on OpenStack innovation : Future of the enterprise cloud | #OEForum

Last month’s OpenStack Enterprise Forum featured a packed agenda studded with presentations and commentary by some of the most influential thought leaders in the industry. However, there was one discussion in particular that stood out among the many highlights of the event: a panel entitled Driving OpenStack Adoption with Nebula head Chris Kemp, HP cloud ...

Oracle, OpenDaylight mark SDN milestones

Software-defined networking (SDN) is continuing to gain momentum as traditional vendors realign their product strategies for the industry wide-shift from legacy solutions to new architectures that couple open-source software with commodity hardware to achieve unprecedented efficiency at large scale. Routing giant Cisco entered the fray last month with the launch of a management module hailed ...

Concurrent rounds out data-driven app dev framework with performance management tool

The rapid growth in unstructured information is transforming the entire enterprise IT stack, from the underlying infrastructure to the business software end users depend on to be productive. But while the journey to re-architect the data center is well under way, with the Hadoop distribution race already in full swing, the industry is only now ...

Cisco takes on the Internet of Things with “fog computing”

At last week’s DistribuTECH summit in San Antonio, Cisco revealed what its Internet of Things division has been up to since forming in October. The routing kingpin introduced a distributed computing architecture called IOx that combines its Internetworking Operating System (IOS) with Linux to simplify how data from connected devices is stored and managed. By ...

Consumable Big Data : Cloudera repackages + adds Spark support

Cloudera this week delivered on its October promise to provide a centralized enterprise analytics platform with a major portfolio overhaul that introduces three new offerings and support for the fast-growing Apache Spark project. Hailed as the next big thing in Big Data by SiliconANGLE founding CEO John Furrier, the framework executes queries up to 100 ...

Syncsort certifies Big Data integration engine for HDP 2.0

Syncsort, a 43-year old software firm that helps enterprises extract business information from their aging mainframes and bring that data into Hadoop without having to jump through hoops, has extended its partnership with Hortonworks in a push to catch up on the fast-moving distribution landscape. The company is capitalizing on the rising popularity of the ...

SiliconANGLE Interview With Microsoft’s new CEO on Modern Infrastructure

SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier broke the news that Microsoft has chosen Satya Nadella as its third CEO last Friday, exactly ten months to the day the veteran executive appeared on theCUBE at the Accel Partners Symposium to share his vision for the modern enterprise. Nadella, who headed the software giant’s lucrative Servers and Tools division, ...

IBM teams with Actifio for “data virtualization” service

Big Blue has once again thrown down the gauntlet to Amazon with the Tuesday announcement of a new cloud-based service that aims to help companies rein in on Big Data by reducing storage requirements to a minimum. One of the main barriers keeping organizations from tapping into their growing information troves is the need to ...