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

This Week in Cloud: From SoundCloud to VMware’s Datacenter App Store

There have been a few major updates this week, a sizable portion of which emerged from the Node Summit gathering in San Francisco.  SiliconANGLE has been attending and covering the gathering extensively across our different channels, including the newly launched DevOpsAngle. We’ve also been reviewing other news from the cloud ecosystem, and the following rundown ...

EnterpriseDB Launches New PostgreSQL DBaaS

PostgreSQL database solution provider EnterpriseDB debuted Postgres Plus Cloud Database for Amazon Web Services and HP Cloud Compute, Hewlett-Packard’s still-in-development PaaS. Cloud Bees and Engine Yard will also offer support for the solution, the company said in a released statement. EnterpriseDB’s newest product is a so called database-as-a-service, enabling customers to leverage a more agile ...

Red Hat’s New Board Wants to Boost Open Storage Ecosystem

Open-source software maker and Linux distributor Red Hat announced the GlusterFS Advisory Board, an independent panel of several industry insiders whose job will be to boost the ecosystem around the open storage platform. The plan is that the nine executives and experts will help encourage developers to make code contributions to the project during their ...

Infineta’s Core Technology Patented after 3 Years

WAN optimization provider Infineta got a patent for the key software that powers its flagship Data Mobility Switch (DMS) solution, after applying back in 2009. U.S. Patent No. 8,078,593 covers the company’s big data-focused deduplication technology – a “massively parallel dedupe algorithm” that offers better I/O bandwidth utilization coupled with more simplicity. “Infineta’s approach tackles two ...

The Value of Node.js and DevOps [Video]

Theo Schlossangle, the founder of service provider OmniIT and the CEO of Circonus, the maker of an app monitoring SaaS, attended this week’s Node Summit and gave his take on the value that can be found in Node.js, the open-source programming language that is the gathering’s main theme. He shared his insight at theCube with SiliconANGLE’s ...

New Backup Solution from Coraid and Veeam

Coraid formed a technology alliance with Veeam to run the latter’s backup software on its EthernetDrive SAN storage. “Server virtualization drives dramatic changes in storage requirements, forcing companies to think carefully about their architecture and the ROI of legacy storage networks,” said Carl Wright, executive vice president of worldwide sales and business development at Coraid.  “The ...

Big Data Winning: R Analytics Contest Seeks Innovative Apps

Big data has spawned a new era of innovation, and as the enterprise finds more ways to slot big data analytics into their business needs, more products emerge for implementation.  To uncover the potential behind the latest big data trends, Revolution Analytics held a little contest, announcing the winners of its first  “Applications of R in Business” competition.   ...

Joyent’s Jason Hoffman Talks Recent Funding, Node.js at theCube

We’ve been broadcasting live from Joyent’s first 2012 NodeSummit in San Francisco, and our own John Furrier and Alex Williams caught up with company founder and CTO Jason Hoffman to discuss everything Node.js. The interview went into second gear after Hoffman provided a quick run-down of his company’s eight-year history. They started out as what he ...

Todd Papaioannu of Battery Ventures Discusses Node.js Trends, Stealth Startup

Node.js is the big focus of this week’s NodeSummit, and executives and pundits from all over the industry are participating.  One of them is Todd Papaioannu, a former Yahoo big data executive, who’s gotten himself involved with the VC community, and now with Joyent’s open-source programming language. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier interviewed him in theCube ...

HP Storage Gets the Grade: Targets Education Sector

HP announced that California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) has made a purchase of HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Arrayspower its datacenter, which empowers over 5,000 students and faculty. As a part of the transaction Hewlett-Packard sold its 100,00th EVA unit, a milestone the hardware giant achieved in a little over 10 years. CSUMB used an older version ...