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

5 steps to new age IT : Tablets, paperless contracts + virtualized desktops | #HPDiscover

Mike Nefkins, Executive Vice President and General Manager for HP Enterprise Services, highlighted the company’s enterprise services businesses, “what we do and why we matter to enterprise clients” in his keynote from HP Discover Barcelona, a live presentation covered by theCUBE. In 2013 the Enterprise Services division won 400 new clients, making its largest deal in ...

3PAR sees tremendous growth at HP : Focuses on polymorphic architecure | #HPDiscover

David Scott, SVP & GM, HP Storage, discussed the integration of 3PAR into the HP product and service range after the company’s acquisition, along with the company’s storage strategy, in a live interview from HP Discover Barcelona, with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. “Overall, we’re managing to now handle the transition as some ...

IDOL on demand, the ace in the sleeve of Robert Youngjohns #HPDiscover

Robert Youngjohns, SVP & General Manager, HP Autonomy, discussed the company’s Big Data strategy and new offerings with theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live from HP Discover in Barcelona. “The big thing we’ve been working on is we’ve taken a lot of the functionality we have in IDOL and made it a service,” ...

AWS perks : Reliability, plummeting costs + no long term predictions | #reinvent

James Hamilton, VP & Distinguished Engineer for Amazon Web Services, discovered the potential of Amazon in the world of cloud services when he realized how it could improve customers’ experiences and results, as he explained in an interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at AWS re:Invent 2013. “I saw opportunity to ...

HP aims to help enterprises drive value from networking and mobility | #HPDiscover

Alastair Winner, VP, HP Technology Services Networking, discussed the latest mobility and networking trends with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at the 2013 edition of HP Discover in Barcelona. Describing his role in HP, Winner said his department was part of the enterprise group. “I have a specific focus on our networking solutions ...

Platform-as-a-Service : A $20 billion TAM according to Red Hat | #reinvent

Ashesh Badani, GM, Cloud BU and OpenShift at Red Hat, discussed the company’s platform as a service offering, their experience with AWS with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman, live from the re:Invent conference “I focus my time on OpenShift platform as a service (PaaS) area,” Badani said, explaining his role at Red Hat. ...

United Airlines : Poster child for HP OneView | #HPDiscover

Brad Kirby, Group Manager for HP Converged Systems, and Marian Lakov, Principal Architect – IT at United Airlines, discussed the implementation of HP OneView within the airline’s infrastructure with theCUBE host Dave Vellante, live at the HP Discover conference in Barcelona. Lakov explained he was an enterprise architect for the technology architectures at United Airlines. ...

Hybrid cloud is a way of life, says HP’s Scott Weller | #HPDiscover

Scott Weller, VP & GM, HP Technology Services, Support, discussed the trends of cloud adoption in the enterprise with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at this year HP Discover event in Barcelona. Commenting on the vibe of the European event, Weller said “this event gets better and better every time. The customers that ...

Meg Whitman keynote promises new computing architecture for Big Data era | #HPDiscover

HP CEO and President Meg Whitman kicked off HP Discover’s keynote by highlighting the company’s strategy, key focus areas, and new products and solutions to be released. The keynote of the 2013 edition of this Barcelona event has been broadcast live by SiliconANGLE’s flagship video production, theCUBE. One of the main issues HP is concentrating on, ...

Riverbed is a gateway to the cloud, AWS products | #reinvent

“This conference is very good for us, it’s very exciting,” Venugopal Pai, VP Global Alliances, Riverbed, commented in his conversation with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at AWS re:Invent. The reason for all the excitement around re:Invent, Pai explained, was the fact that a lot of their enterprise customers continued to evolve ...