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

Android Users Guide Mobile Trends and Hairstyles

We’ve got some confirmation Android has managed to climb its way to the top of the U.S global chart recently. The latest report by comScore found that Android rose 3.1 percent in the quarter ending November this year to 46.9 percent, followed by iOS’s 8.7 percent share – representing a gain of one and a ...

Fusion-io’s Three Big Drivers in 2012

The year 2011 has been very successful for a lengthy list of companies, including flash storage solutions maker Fusion-io. Reflecting on that, Fusion-io outlined three key areas of disruption related to its industry in a blog post late last month. The first area of growth Fusion highlighted in its own contribution to the flurry of ...

This Week in Cloud: Economics with Cost Monitoring, Open-Source Software

Cost efficiency and high utilization belong to the list of the top drivers behind enterprise cloud migration, so this area has naturally not been left untapped.  Two different companies have announced updates in this space throughout the past week, including Cloudability. Cloudability is a new startup that takes high utilization to the next level by eliminating human ...

Former HP CEO Scandal Lives On, Confidential Letter Revealed

An eight-page letter sent by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred to Mark Hurd on behalf of Jodie Fisher has been published by Mercury News. Both parties requested that the letter remain confidential, but a Delaware court ruled last Wednesday that it be made public. The letter has become the the center of controversy during the legal battle ...

Non-Security Vendors Investing in this Area as Cyber Threat Looms

Last year was been a very strong indicator of the pace hackers are adopting to traditional security measures.  In 2011, a number of  hackers even managed to take a few organizations and governments by surprise, including Sony and EMC’s RSA. This is a part of the reason some of the biggest vendors in the IT ...

TOTAL for iPad Tops Weekly Business Tablet App List

Tablets and app developers have found their way into a variety of industries that make use of the advantages that come with mobile and remote functionality. One of those segments is real-estate, where the iPad in particular has made itself a reputation thanks to a number of apps. This week’s roundup features one of those ...

Hadoop’s Ecosystem Transformation: Making Waves in 2011

Hadoop has come a long way this year. At first Cloudera had something that resembled a by-default monopoly as one of the only high profile providers of commercial Hadoop distribution, but now MapR, Hortonworks and others are looking to change that. The rest of the ecosystem changed as well, with the introduction of new code ...

IBM Dives into the Analytics Space with 2011 Milestones

This is the follow-up post to the yearly roundup of IBM’s biggest developments in 2011, looking into the company’s drastic expansion of its analytics portfolio in the past 12 months. SiliconANGLE has been covering the particularly notable advancements in big data the Big Blue made all throughout the year. Picking up from where we left ...

It’s A Holiday for Amazon, Samsung with High Sales Numbers

Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Samsung’s Galaxy Note evidently gained a lot of popularity during the holiday season. The online retailer sold over 1 million Kindle units per week for the past four weeks. The new Kindle Fire accounted for the bulk of the device sold, followed by the  Kindle Touch and the original Kindle. Amazon ...

A Year in Cloud: From Analytics to iCloud

The past year has been a significant one for the cloud industry. Both enterprises and consumers have realized the potential of the technology, and vendors across both sectors have done their best to push as much innovation and marketing into this concept as possible. SiliconANGLE picked the top five cloud stories from this year and ...