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.

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IBM infuses hybrid cloud features into its storage systems

The hybrid cloud is emerging as a central priority in IBM Corp.’s storage strategy. The company today unveiled a new version of Spectrum Virtualize, the management stack powering most of its storage arrays, that introduces a native cloud replication feature. That means organizations will be able to move snapshots, or read-only copy of the data, ...

Cisco targets data-intensive workloads with new converged systems

Like its fellow hardware suppliers, Cisco Systems Inc. hopes to capitalize on the rapid growth of unstructured data and the resulting rise in enterprise storage requirements. The latest fruit of the company’s efforts is the UCS-S converged infrastructure family, which was unveiled today at its annual partner summit in San Francisco. Cisco says that the ...

Report: Amazon still dominates cloud, but competition hot on its heels

Despite Amazon Web Services’ commanding lead, competition in public cloud computing is tightening, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. The study is the latest in a series of market updates that the analyst firm publishes every quarter after the industry’s top providers post their earnings. Synergy has unsurprisingly found that Amazon.com Inc. ...

NetApp launches new cloud services for managing data

On-premises storage suppliers are scrambling to address the growing amounts of data that their customers are moving to the cloud. The latest big-name player to join the fray is NetApp Inc., which today introduced two new software as a service offerings aimed at easing the management of remote workloads. The first addition is the Cloud Sync Service, ...

Redis, the cache that powers Twitter, gets a machine learning module

The growing number of services that run machine learning algorithms under the hood will now be able to tap the popular open-source database Redis’ capabilities much more easily than before. Typically used to cache applications’ most frequently accessed information, Redis has received a new extension today that brings integration with Spark ML. Organizations that employ ...

New MongoDB release can run across regions and perform graph analytics

After more than 20 million downloads and thousands of enterprise deals, MongoDB Inc. is launching a new release of its namesake documenet store that is aimed at large organizations with broad and complex datasets. Arguably the biggest enhancement in MongoDB 3.4 is support for graph processing, an addition that will enable users to analyze the relationships among ...

CenturyLink to acquire Level 3 for $34B to boost fiber optic network

The balance of power in the business Internet communications market is about to change in a big way. CenturyLink Inc., the third-largest carrier in the U.S., today entered into an agreement to acquire fiber network operator Level 3 Communications Inc. for about $34 billion. Excluding debt, the deal is worth about $25 billion in cash and ...

With new cloud hardware design, Microsoft aims to overhaul Open Compute Project

Since its launch five years ago, Facebook Inc.’s Open Compute Project has produced dozens of hardware designs that helped drive billions of dollars in infrastructure savings at the social network and other companies. But Microsoft Corp. still sees room for improvement. The software giant will attempt to nudge the initiative in a new direction this ...

IBM buys India’s Sanovi to bolster hybrid cloud capabilities

The growing popularity of hybrid cloud tools has not gone unnoticed by IBM Corp.’s top brass. The company today signed an agreement to buy Sanovi Technologies Pvt Ltd., a Bangalore-based firm that sells software for backing up on-premise workloads to and from the cloud. Its flagship Enterprise DR Management platform lets administrators manage recovery procedures through ...

Google unveils new Material Design toolkit for app designers

After taking the developer community by storm with its Go language and open-source projects such as Kubernetes, Google Inc. is setting its sights on another key segment of the technology world: application designers. As part of its push, the search giant has unveiled a set of homegrown user interface tools that aim to streamline the visual ...