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

Beyond the reach of OEMs, QLogic shares strategy to target new customers| #OOW14

Focused on meeting evolving buying needs of customers looking to avoid OEMs, QLogic Corp. has its own appeal to those seeking an IO solution. With their latest launch of a 10 Gb Ethernet Adapter made available through their channel partners, QLogic’s new product is driven by the shifts in the market. “As the market ramps, ...

Why Cisco focuses on cloud consumption models and cloud-stye computing | #OOW14

With close to 40,000 customers worldwide, Cisco Systems Inc.’s Unified Computing System (USC) put the company at the lead as North America’s top blade server vendor. Focusing on pushing fabric-based computing to the industry, Cisco is now bringing more features to the fabric-based architecture and expanding the reach of what they call cloud-style computing, explains Ben ...

Analysts break down Oracle’s new cloud business model | #OOW14

There’s a new business model in town for technology stalwart Oracle Corp., now based on the three layers of cloud: infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and the company’s enormous portfolio, led by applications. In this new model, applications are what drive infrastructure, explained Dave Vellante in a deep analysis discussion with Stu ...

The Achilles heel of OpenStack is lack of product leadership | #OpenStackSV

Perhaps OpenStack’s biggest flaw lies within the fact there is no ownership for long term product vision. This lack of product leadership hinders its success, said Randy Bias, Founder, CTO, and CEO of Cloudscaling Group, Inc., in a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Frick and John Furrier at the 2014 OpenStack Silicon Valley conference. Bias’ ...

As OpenStack adoption grows, one CSO says to “just get started.” | #OpenStackSV

OpenStack is starting to show significant progress in customer adoption, paralleling an important shift in the cloud computing market heralded by key developments including such as Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s recent acquisition of Eucalyptus Systems Inc. and the strategic placement of cloud experts at Google, Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., both consumer companies making strides in enterprise cloud services. “We’re starting ...

Infor makes as many acquisitions as Oracle’s in the last decade | #inforum14

Looking to replicate what Apple, Inc. did for  the consumer IT segment, Infor Global Solutions believes in the beautification of enterprise software and giving users a great experience. To pursue this goal, Infor has invested significant time and resources, including several key acquisitions, in the design of their software, employing an Internet design firm, Hook & ...

Wells Fargo moves from financial to data services with Tableau | #data14

Wells Fargo Bank, with the help of Tableau Software, Inc., is moving beyond financial services and provides data services to its clients. After collecting and making sense of data, the company found several opportunities in sharing that data with the clients that generated it to begin with, helping them better understand their organizations and improve their ...

Tableau widens its target, sets sights internationally| #data14

Building around the same customer focused culture and sales strategy from the beginning, Tableau Software, Inc. focuses on taking on the local and international market. The company’s efforts revolve around enabling people to better see and understand data, explains Kelly Wright, EVP of Sales at Tableau, in a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave ...

Dissolving silos for seamless data migration, cheap | #vmworld

Despite claims that web scale is nothing more than a marketing term, Nutanix, Inc. drives down data migration costs by bringing web scale architecture into the complex enterprise environments.  The company provides a cost effective, seamless way to move data around the enterprise, preventing it from being trapped in silos, as Binny Gill, Chief Architect at Nutanix, ...

Modern data protection shouldn’t be selective on critical apps alone | #vmworld

Virtualization is still one of the key enablers for the modern IT, but cloud and storage technologies are what drive the overall growth in modern IT environments, said Ratmir Timashev, President and CEO of Veeam Software, describing expanding market opportunities for new technologies and innovation. Speaking with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante during ...