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

What you missed in Big Data: Open-source momentum

Following a series of contributions to the machine learning community from its fellow web giants, LinkedIn Inc. decided to join the fray too last week and open-source one of its algorithm development tools. Dubbed Photon ML, the framework is used by the social networking giant’s engineers to personalize members’ news feeds. The ability to customize ...

What you missed in Cloud: Security takes center stage

The top cloud providers go through great lengths to ensure that the user data stored on their infrastructure is secure, but for enterprises with strict compliance requirements, the built-in controls are often insufficient. The gap is being filled by vendors like Egnyte Inc., which last week introduced a tool aimed at preventing unauthorized access to files kept ...

Qadium raises $20M to map out the Internet of Things

While other enterprise search providers make their living by helping organizations navigate internal records or find information about the competition, Qadium Inc. has its crawlers set on an entirely different target: Connected devices. The startup is assembling an index of all the Internet-connected endpoints on the planet in a grandiose effort that received a $20 ...

Carbon Black launches a new kind of threat intelligence network

Security professionals are cooperating more closely than ever in the fight against hacking. Key industries such as finance and retail now have dedicated threat intelligence networks for sharing data about attacks, while tech firms like Facebook Inc. operate similar communities that span multiple verticals. But Carbon Black Inc. believes that the market still has room ...

HPE launches new converged appliances for crunching IoT data

Today, organizations must send much of the machine-generated data they collect at the edge of the network to a central backend environment for processing. But the situation is changing rapidly thanks to the efforts of vendors like Hewlett Packard Enterprise. At its Discover summit this week, the company introduced a pair of converged appliances that ...

HPE and GE join forces in Internet of Things push

A month after launching a platform for processing machine-generated data, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is teaming up with General Electric Co. to promote its competing Predix system. The unexpected alliance was announced at the data center giant’s Discover summit in Las Vegas today and stands to provide a major competitive boost for both vendors. For HPE, the ...

Cylance raises $100M for its AI-powered antivirus

Although they’re more cautious than they were a year or two ago, technology investors are still willing to bet big when an opportunity presents itself in a fast-growing space like cybersecurity. The latest example comes from Cylance Inc., an Irvine-based enterprise antivirus maker that today announced the completion of a $100 million funding round led ...

Senrio exits stealth to defend the Internet of Things from hackers

Securing the billions of connected devices that are expected to come online in the next few years will pose an unprecedented challenge for IT  professionals. Fortunately, however, the issue is already drawing attention from a number of vendors looking to gain a head-start on the market. The newest name on the list is Senrio Inc., ...

HPE will start shipping servers with Docker pre-installed

The vendor community is coming up with more and more ways to monetize the popularity of containers. Some suppliers are offering complementary software, others provide professional services, and now Hewlett Packard Enterprise is adding pre-certified equipment to the list. The company is gearing up to start shipping servers with Docker Engine included out of the ...

IBM launches a cloud-based IDE for data scientists

The $300 million initiative that IBM Corp. launched last year to broaden the adoption of Apache Spark is kicking into high gear. At an event held in San Francisco today for users of the data crunching engine, the company unveiled a cloud service that promises to help expand its appeal by making it possible to write ...