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

Tableau CMO Talks Customer-Driven Marketing | #tcc13

Tableau chief marketing officer Elissa Fink believes that effective brand messaging hinges on positive customer experiences. She stopped by theCUBE at last week’s Tableau Customer Conference to discuss how she applies this principle in her work. Fink and her team take most of the credit for organizing the event, which theCUBE co-host Dave Vellante named ...

Red Hat Teams Up with dotCloud to Promote Open Hypervisor Alternative

In the software-defined era, the hardware abstraction layer doesn’t have to be a hypervisor. Sensing the winds of change, Red Hat is putting its weight behind an open-source Linux container engine called Docker. Developed by dotCloud, Docker takes advantage of system-level functions to encapsulate any application and its dependencies as a lightweight container that can ...

Audience Audit’s Susan Baier on Attitudinal Segmentation | #tcc13

Susan Baier is the owner of Audience Audit, a research firm that specializes in attitudinal segmentation. Baier stopped by theCube at the recently concluded Tableau Customer Conference to explain what it is her company does and how Tableau’s software helped her boost the bottom line. Baier is a marketing veteran with over 25 years of ...

VCE Brings Flash to Converged Infrastructure with Latest Offerings

Founded in 2009 as a joint venture between EMC, VMware and Cisco, VCE is quickly emerging as a leader in the converged infrastructure space. The vendor is now looking to accelerate its growth with new solutions for resource-intensive environments. The freshly unveiled Vblock System 340 marries XtremSW flash cache with Cisco’s B420 M3 blade servers and ...

Attunity Injects Resilience into Data Analytics with New Replication Software

Aggregating data from off-premises databases involves governance and security challenges that traditional network solutions aren’t necessarily equipped to address. Aggregation also yields latency and bandwidth constraints which can be barriers to analytics in geographically dispersed enterprises. Attunity, a Burlington, MA.-based provider of replication software, is tearing down these barriers with a new solution for large-scale ...

Life Sciences Software Company Veeva Files for IPO

After months of speculation, Veeva has finally confirmed that it’s headed for a stock market debut. The Pleasanton, California-based company hired Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank as lead underwriters, and signed up Pacific Crest Securities, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, BMO Capital Markets, and Canaccord Genuit as co-managers. Veeva is an emerging cloud service provider that ...

NetApp VP of Products Leaves for Big Data Startup

Manish Goel, the executive vice president of production operations for NetApp, is resigning effective Friday, September 20. NetApp said that the veteran executive is leaving the company to assume the role of chief executive officer for an unnamed analytics startup in the San Francisco Bay Area. Goel has handed over the reins to George Kurian, ...

Lumeta Puts its Weight Behind Juniper’s Big SDN Push

Lumeta, a privately-held provider of network discovery solutions, has joined the Juniper Networks SDN Technology Program to integrate its flagship IPsonar suite with the vendor’s newly unveiled Contrail platform. The latter offering builds on technology Juniper obtained through the 2012 acquisition of Contrail Systems to decouple network management functions from the underlying hardware. Contrail is ...

Qualaroo Brings Audience Surveys to the Mobile Web

Modern web analytics tools offer unprecedented insight into page views and visitor activity, but there are many questions that Big Data cannot yet answer. An emerging web marketing startup called Qualaroo is working to bridge this knowledge gap the old fashion way. Founded in 2012 by a group of industry veterans who “found it surprising ...

NetApp to Deliver ‘Universal Data Platform’ atop ONTAP

In a bold push to establish Data ONTAP as a common fabric for private, hybrid and public cloud environments, NetApp is introducing a new solution for migrating data between on- and off-premise infrastructure. The company’s soon-to-be-unveiled portability technology performs on-the-fly “hypervisor translation” to greatly simplify workload migration between disparate ONTAP deployments. The offering is designed ...