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

Hewlett-Packard’s making the Most out of its Security Portfolio

HP, like many tech companies, has its hands in a few pots as the industry shifts to a broadened space spanning mobility and the enterprise.  We’ve been covering Hewlett-Packard’s strategy to tap the growing and modestly tapped enterprise security market for quite some time. A new note by ISI analyst Brian Marshall further validated the approach ...

VMware Launches View for Mac, Linux, Kindle Fire

VMware launched VMware View Clients for three new platforms today, noticeably expanding the market for its desktop virtualization software. The clients, currently available as technology previews support Mac, Linux and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The Linux version can already be downloaded via the Ubuntu Software Center and VMware said the Kindle Fire version will soon be available ...

YouSendIt and Other Top iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps

YouSendIt launched its iPad and Android app this week, making its cloud-based sharing and collaboration features available to tablet, along with other platforms. it’s a big step for YouSendIt as it expands its services as well as its business model.  For many companies leveraging cloud storage these days, mobile’s been a great avenue to access ...

This Week in Cloud: PaaS, Virtualization Leading Trends

This week platform services were a major highlight, thanks to a few interesting developments surfaced from a number of the more high-ranking cloud vendors. For starters, Microsoft upgraded Azure with the addition of Node.js support, and rolled out the early product of a previously announced partnership with HortonWorks.  Select developers have access to a preview of ...

Xeround Changes Agenda after $9M in Funding

Xeround is realizing its shift of focus from database management to offering public cloud database services now that it has raised $9 million in its third round of funding. Existing investors Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership as well as Benchmark Capital and Giza Venture Capital contributed to the round. Xeround’s transition was first conceived two years ...

IBM Builds Out Cloud Analytics with Latest Buy

IBM is expanding its Smart Cloud commerce initiative – and its analytics portfolio as a whole by doing a lot of M&E. Yesterday the company announced that it has acquired Emptoris for an undisclosed amount. The Burlington, Mass-based Emptoris provides cloud and on-premise software that helps companies understand how they performance in terms of supply ...

HP Cuts Execs’ Exit Packs

HP’s shareholders have expressed concern about the compensation the two previous CEOs received after leaving the company. Leo Apotheker received 156, 000 shares of restricted stock worth about $3.6 million at the time, and prior to that Mark Hurd received much more– a decision that in turn resulted in several on-going investor lawsuits. This week ...

Storage Wars Part 3: How is HP Doing with 3PAR?

The continuation of Wikibon’s Storage Wars series (see here for Part 1 and Part 2) looks into how Hewlett-Packard managed to integrate 3PAR into the company in relation to today’s storage market. Overall, they’ve done a pretty good job. Wikibon covered six areas where it’s essential for HP to invest in to maintain its current position ...

Microsoft Takes its Smartphone Goals to the Outer Limit

Microsoft has gotten itself head-deep into the mobile industry with Windows Phone 7, and perhaps to a broader extent with the upcoming Windows 8 due sometime in 2012. In addition the company made some of its apps available for Android and iOS, a tactic that GigaOM’s James Kendrick believes extends beyond plain competiveness. Kendrick’s theory ...

Broadcom Expands to Computer Accessories, Sees Growth in Mobile

Broadcom is anxious to catch up with Cisco and Juniper Networks in certain areas, which own the vast majority of market share in the networking universe.  The company is seeing steady growth, and its latest product is bound to attract some addition attention in the consumer space. The newly announced  Broadcom BCM20730 65 nm low-power ...