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

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 ...

The human edge of Big Data | #BigDataNYC

The Big Data market is on the verge of a new era, with information becoming more accessible through a combination of self-service capabilities and advanced visualization features. Edd Dumbill, the vice president of strategy for Silicon Valley Data Science, appeared on theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recently concluded Big Data NYC 2013 event to share his unique ...

Weekly Cloud Review: Converged infrastructure + developer outreach

With the consumerization of IT sweeping through the enterprise, organizations are increasingly embracing the private cloud in an effort to keep up with the fast-evolving expectations of their end-users. The path to addressing the needs of today’s workforce leads to converged infrastructure, a modular approach to managing data centers that aims to simplify deployment and ...

Internet of Things review: Cisco’s new IoT + Google Glass accessories

It’s go big or go extinct for Cisco, which seeks to adapt its enterprise networking franchise to the burgeoning Internet of Things in a push to capitalize on the coming wave of connected devices. This week at the Internet of Things World Forum in Barcelona, the company announced that it’s consolidating its efforts under a ...

Weekly security review: MongoHQ goes into lockdown

MongoDB hosting company MongoHQ has suffered a breach of its systems on Monday, forcing it to go into lockdown to minimize the damage to users. The attackers reportedly gained access to the firm’s network through a compromised account on an internal employee support application. MongoHQ promptly published a security notice in which it promised to ...

Weekly Big Data review: App development and BI

Not wanting to be overlooked amidst the Hadoop ecosystem’s bold push into the cloud, several prominent vendors decided to stay on the sidelines of the Big Data Week festival. Unified monitoring provider Zenoss led the charge with a major upgrade to its Service Impact solution, which provides near real time insights into application dependencies across ...

Clustrix releases flagship database for online download

Database maker Clustrix has finally released its flagship platform as a standalone download, enabling customers to deploy the software in their own data centers. Previously available only on AWS, the platform comes in two versions: a free community edition that’s limited to 12 cores, and a commercial edition that starts at $1200 per core per ...