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

24 Hours Ahead of Facebook’s IPO: It’s Time to Talk Clean Servers

In just a few years, social media behemoth Facebook managed to build up a $100 billion IPO valuation, and all the credit goes to the 800 million registered accounts on the network – 800 million users that the company’s IT infrastructure has to support. Facebook’s engineers got cracking, laying out the blueprints for a new ...

BI Industry Spike Puts Tableau at the Helm

Data visualization software maker Tableau Software is calling dibs on the BI market now that research firm Gartner ranked it as the number one vendor in that space in a recent, and most awkwardly pronounced, report.  The whitepaper, entitled ‘Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management, Worldwide, 2011,’ looks at twenty different vendors, and places ...

Pure Storage Reveals Version 2 of All-Flash Array [Video]

Pure Storage’s engineering team has evidently been keeping busy in light of this week’s news that the company is debuting the second generation of its flash storage array. FlashArray 2.0 with the new Purity Operating Environment software packs several extra features that are promised to add much more value to the solution. This latest release ...

OpsCode Unveils New Chef Features, Trial Version

Now that the Chef has reached the 1,000,000 downloads mark, OpsCode released a major update to the open source systems integration framework. It now includes a whole new lineup of features, and there’s a free two-month trial available to those who want to test one the Private edition of the software. The tweaked-up Chef in ...

EMC and VCE’s Take on HANA at SAPphire 2012

Henrik Wagner, the head of SAP relations at EMC, shared some of his perspective on business software, and value, together with VCE’s D.J. Long during an interview with Dave Vellante on the Cube (see full video below). Speaking at SAP SAPphire 2012, Wagner started by noting how he considers this particular conference as a unique ...

SAP Saved the Best for Last – HANA SP4’s New Capabilities

It’s Day 3 of SAP SAPphire, and today the BI software maker finally released the most significant batch of HANA-related news scheduled from the event:  HANA service pack 4. The idea is that SAP customers can upgrade their deployment by purchasing service packs rather than new licenses, and this latest one packs more than enough ...

Tablet Business Apps Roundup: Lookout Tops the List

This week Lookout for Android snatched the top spot in our list of iPad and Android tablet apps for professionals, one of the leading mobile security tools out there. The sheer amount of traction this particular app has received supported it through 7 different releases, and version 7.10 doesn’t disappoint either. Android Lookout Security & ...

Millennial Beats Earnings Estimates Right off the Bat

Mobile ad network operator Millennial Media, currently the second largest company in this space behind none other than Google, held its first ever earnings call this week.  They went public in late March, selling over 10 million shares for $13 a pop. The company reported a net loss of $4 million or 32 shares – more ...

VMware Unveils vFabric Suite 5.1 With New Add Ons

Virtualization solutions maker VMware announced the latest version of the vFabric Suite, a platform that’s meant to support Spring Java applications running on cloud infrastructure powered by the company’s power. vFabric 5.1 features several new capabilities, including the addition of support for open source tools such as  Postgres,  Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server and the ...

Hewlett-Packard Unveiles New Servers, Gets More Cloud Attention

Taking a small break from all the buzz surrounding HP Cloud Services, Hewlett-Packard reaffirmed the plus side of being a large vendor with strong relations.  Just 24 hours after Intel’s new server chipsets were announced, HP unveiled a new lineup of ProLiant servers for the SMB market that ship with freshly baked Xeon under the ...