Alina Popescu

A regular contributor to SiliconANGLE, Alina Popescu is a writer, self-appointed geek, and coffee addict. She has been blogging for over 8 years, covering various topics from tech to marketing and tourism. Find out more about Alina on her website or follow her on Twitter.

Latest from Alina Popescu

Unifying SQL and Hadoop: Hadapt’s War-Winning Strategy

theCube invited Scott Howser, VP Marketing Hadapt, to discuss the startup's progress thus far and their opinion on the big "Hadoop War" conversation going on right now, started by Greenplum's aggressive announcement on Pivotal HD.

We Did Not Intend to Take an Aggressive Stance: Greenplum’s Take on Hadoop War

Josh Klahr, VP of Product Management, discussed the recent EMC Greenplum announcement on Pivotal HD inside theCube, live at Strata 2013. While it is true that Greenplum delayed the Pivotal HD announcement which consisted of bringing SQL to Hadoop, Klahr explained that the new release is based a year-and-a-half of technology development to bring parallel database ...

The Secret to WANdisco’s Big Data Success? Products You Actually Want to Buy

WANdisco CEO David Richards and Jagane Sundar, CTO and VP of Engineering of Big Data, have discussed the company’s Big Data operations, its Hadoop distribution and their plans for the future at theCube, live at Strata 2013. The company – whose background is in data replication and position itself as provider of high-availability software for global ...

Insights Lack Value Unless They Trigger Actions, Says HStreaming’s Jana Uhlig

Jana Uhlig, CEO of startup HStreaming, talked about the company’s Hadoop-powered real-time data processing platform inside theCube, live at Strata 2013. The HStreaming solution helps companies convert big data into value by putting it through a strategy engine before being stored. The platform works over Hadoop to get data as it is generated, push it ...

Greenplum vs. Cloudera: Nothing New in Hadoop War, But Can the Market Support Both?

With Hadoop as an established framework for delivering Big Data in the enterprise, many companies are betting business on services and solutions for Hadoop deployment.  Wikibon’s Dave Vellente and Jeff Kelly have discussed the big Hadoop war between distribution providers at this week’s Strata conference, focusing on the Greenplum-Cloudera competition. Commenting on Greenplum’s recent announcement ...

It’s Not About Big Data, but Its “Value” through Visualization, Says Jaspersoft

Talking with theCube's Dave Vellante, Ben Conners WW Head of Alliances at Jaspersoft discussed visualization as a key component to effectively put value in the hands of business people, which represents a means to monetizing Big Data.