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

Mobile DevOps means different mentality : Skills + experience | #IBMpulse

Developing for mobile requires a completely different approach and mentality from web applications, said Mike Gilfix, Director, MobileFirst Platform & Analytics at IBM, in a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at IBM Pulse 2014. “Mobile is different, absolutely, from the web,” Gilfix said. “People are creating different experiences, it’s a ...

Cloud is all about speed + agility for the mid-market | #IBMpulse

“We’re at a tipping point,” said John Mason, General Manager, Mid-Market at IBM. “Once every 20-25 year shifts in this technology industry,” while talking about the mid sized businesses and their cloud business with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at IBM Pulse 2014. Mason said this was something once faced once or twice ...

The Big Data “tectonic shift” is just getting started | #BigDataSV

WANdisco CEO David Richards and Jagane Sundar, CTO and VP of Engineering of Big Data, discussed the company’s latest developments and the current Big Data trends with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at BigDataSV 2014. WANdisco has just released a new Non-Stop Hadoop product, a single cluster running HBase that can be ...

Disaggregation + hardware virtualization : Pooled resrouces are key | #OCPSummit

LSI is moving into contributing to Open Compute, said Robert Ober, the company’s System & Processor Architect, in a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier from  the Open Compute Project Summit in California. “We’ve been engaged and involved in Open Compute from the first time, but now we’re going to contribute.” Explaining ...

20th Century Fox: From traditional to converged infrastructure in 6 months

John Herbert, EVP and CIO at 20th Century Fox, and HP President and CEO Meg Whitman, discussed the partnership of the two companies as part of the HP Discover keynote presentation, a Hewlett-Packard event that concluded late last year. “Digital is really changing everything,” Herbert said. Television distribution has been through a complete change, which ...

OpenStack brings agility to more traditional service offerings | #OEForum

Internap was one of  the first companies to deploy OpenStack in 2011, said Raj Dutt, the company’s Senior Vice President of Technology, in a conversation with Gartner Moderator, Lydia Leong. The two debated OpenStack advantages within the OpenStack Enterprise Forum keynote, broadcast live by theCUBE today. The early adoption of OpenStack meant deploying it while it was ...

Cumulus speaks on latest Dell deal, bare-metal networking + open cloud | #OCPSummit

JR Rivers, the CEO at Cumulus Networks, discussed the company’s new deal with Dell, and bare-metal networking trends with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live from the Open Compute Project Summit in California. Giving an update on Cumulus, Rivers mentioned a lot of customer interest and customer engagement all boils down to proven concepts. ...

How Microsoft is innovating public cloud : Scaling for enterprise | #VTUG

Brad Anderson, Corporate VP of Windows Server & System Center at Microsoft, discussed the company’s cloud and server strategy with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman, live from the VTUG Winter Warmer 2014. This year’s event was focused on the virtualization market broadening beyond VMware to the likes of Microsoft and Citrix, and it ...

Harvard needs “all students to appreciate science,” speaks on open Internet | #MITECIR

Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Professor of Physics at Harvard University, discussed the need of tech professionals to understand the world they live in and the connection between discovery and innovation.  Meeting with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, Narayanamurti spoke live from the MIT ECIR workshop today. In this day and age, where technology is present 80 ...

The governance system needs to be inclusive, acknowledge the state system | #MITECIR

Nazli Choucri, Professor of Political Science at MIT, discussed the connection between the cyberspace and international relations, with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, live at the MIT ECIR Workshop today. The conference is the result of a collaboration between MIT and Harvard. “It started by us proposing a research project” responding to a request ...