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

Revolution Analytics Finds a New CEO

Revolution Analytics, a maker of analytics software powered by the R statistical programming language, announced a major staffing change at the very core of the company’s leadership.  Dr. Norman Nie will continue to serve as a director and a Senior Advisor for Products and Strategy for the new chief exec, David Rich. Rich Joins Revolution ...

Nimble Storage Backs Up Blood Bank: Case Study

Nimble Storage is evidently receiving orders from a broader spectrum of organizations. One of its customers is  Florida Blood Services, a not-for-profit blood bank that assists patients in critical care. The company said that FBS replaced twelve of its old boxes for backup and recovery with only four Nimble CS240 converged storage arrays. Two of ...

Nimble Expands in EMEA with New Offices, New Exec

Nimble announced it has hired Richard Young to oversee operations and sales in Europe.  As the new director of EMEA, Young will be working out of a newly opened branch in the United Kingdom. Nimble offers what it calls a new breed of CRM platforms, which fused the cloud together with a strong social element, ...

Pirate Bay Founders Found Guilty in Sweden Amidst Web Copyright Drama

Even before the battle over SOPA and PIPA has reached its climax, the media industry is going after the people who are making its copyrighted property available for free online. The particularly case involving The Pirate Bay has come to end this week, and it set a rather interesting precedence for the rest of the ...

ScaleXtreme Launches New Partner Program for CSPs

ScaleXtreme, a provider of cloud management and automation tools for the enterprise, announced the latest boost to its ecosystem. The company hopes to increase the number of paid licenses it’s selling via its partners, which is why it launched the Cloud Service Provider Program. Providers that are developing cloud-based or on-premise offerings for either vCloud, Citrix CloudStack ...

Mzinga Ups the Data Ante with Teradata Team Up

According to a recently published case study, Mzinga is one of the latest Teradata customers to make use of Aster technology on a large scale. Teradata acquired Aster Data last year. Mzinga offers a solution called OmniSocial, which is meant to enable organizations to setup community sites where customers, partners and other members of its ...

EMC’s New Greenplum HD Integrates with Isilon

Storage giant EMC is extracting the most out two previous investments as it sets course to become a big data powerhouse. Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly wrote up the latest news in a blog post: Isilon scale-out network attached storage has been integrated with an Apache-compatible Hadoop distro called Greenplum HD. This is not the same product as ...

AppSense Goes Global as Product Market Expands

User virtualization solutions maker AppSense released some figures revealing the past 6 months in the company’s history, as well as info about how it plans to make those figures even more impressive by seeking new customers overseas. The company said that it has seen record growth in the first half of its 2012 fiscal year, ...

Permabit Finds another Partner in Stonefly

Permabit has entered into an OEM agreement with StoneFly, a maker of high-performance NAS, SAN and storage systems that’s a part of the Dynamic Network Factory. StoneFly will be integrating Permabit’s Albireo deduplication software into its portfolio, which is good news for the OEM-embedded solution and its steadily growing ecosystem. The company managed to position Albireo ...

ARM Beats Wall Street Expectations Thanks to Mobile Demand

U.K.-based chipmaker ARM reported results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011 today. The firm has seen a tremendous amount of growth, which is expected to extend to the third quarter of this year. ARM credits its success to exploding demand in the mobile space. The company reported a revenue increase of 28 percent ...