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

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. ...

Redefining Big Data : From bubble to sustainable trend | #BigDataNYC

Big Data is advancing faster than any other technology in enterprise history, and it’s the Hadoop community’s responsibility to sustain this trend, according to Kognitio’s Michael Hiskey. The executive believes that the analytics space is headed for a bubble that will only be averted if the ecosystem gets serious about driving business value for customers. ...

Internet of Things Review: Intel, Valve grab headlines

Intel is getting serious about connected devices. Following in the footsteps of Cisco, the chip maker announced this week that it’s launching a new Internet of Things Solutions group that will develop solutions for embedded sensors, phones and everything in between. The division will be led by general manager Doug Davis, who previously served as ...

Weekly Security Review: China and Google

Cyber-espionage is back on the agenda now that China’s army hackers have renewed their efforts to penetrate organizations in the U.S. and abroad, according to a newly published congressional report by Mandiant. The cybersecurity firm had previously charged China’s secretive PLA Unit 61398 with stealing hundreds of terabytes of data from government agencies, defense contractors ...

Weekly Cloud Review: OpenStack and Hyperscale

It’s been an action-packed week in the cloud ecosystem, with several big-name vendors putting their weight behind OpenStack and upping the ante in the open source race to zero. Linux distributor Canonical set itself apart from the pack by forging an alliance with Pivotal to accelerate the convergence of IaaS and PaaS. As part of ...

RightScale complements management platform with multi-Cloud cost analytics

RightScale is tackling cloud sprawl in multi-provider environments with a new service that integrates with its flagship management platform to let IT organizations take action before the charges start piling up. Dubbed Cloud Analytics, the offering can track and visualize usage trends across a wide range of public and private clouds, including AWS, Azure and ...

Canonical jumps into open cloud ecosystem with OpenStack + Cloud Foundry

Seeking a bigger slice of the public cloud pie, Canonical has joined forces with Pivotal to reposition Ubuntu at the center of the open PaaS ecosystem. Under the partnership, the Linux distributor will integrate an OpenStack-based version of Cloud Foundry into the next major release of its operating system to let customers consolidate their infrastructure- ...