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

Total + Proactive In-home Care Systems : Future of Affordable Healthcare | #MITIQ

Donald George, Chief Architect at PRISM Communication Systems, explained his company’s approach to proactive in-home healthcare through monitoring, analysis, and visualization of data relating to both illnesses and patient behavior, with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Paul Gillin, live at the MIT CDOIQ Symposium. “Data is the core issue” in healthcare, George said. Currently, “many of us connect in ...

Data Should Be a Business Issue, Not a Technical Issue | #MITIQ

Mario Faria, Big Data Technology Advisor at Technology Partner Network, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and part of the MIT Data Science Initiative, discussed the role of the Chief Data Office in enterprise, as well as that of the team they manage, with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, live at the MIT CDOIQ Symposium. The ...

Effective + Friendly Tools : Critical to Analytics in ObamaCare Era | #MITIQ

Michael Nix, Director of Analytics of the James M. Jeffords Institute for Quality and Operational Effectiveness, Fletcher Allen Health Care, discussed the challenges of driving value technology advancements in the healthcare industry with theCUBE co-hosts Paul Gillin and Dave Vellante, live at the MIT CDOIQ Symposium. Commenting on the role of healthcare in data analytics, Nix ...

Bring Security to the Data : The Most Effective Way | #MITIQ

Ely Kahn, Co-founder and Vice President of Business Development at Sqrrl, discussed data quality and data security with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, live at the MIT CDQIQ Symposium. Data quality had been a big issue and lead to the development of the Accumulo database, Kahn explained. Accumulo was initially an NSA project and ...

Data Enables Proactive Perks to US Veterans | #MITIQ

Dat Tran, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Data Governance and Analysis, Department of Veterans Affairs, explained his department’s approach to data integration and how it can be used to provide better services to veterans to theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante, live at the MIT CDOIQ Symposium. With a long history of dealing with veterans’ needs ...

Boosting the Industrial Internet : Driving Best Practices into the Enterprise

Al Sargent, Director of Product Marketing at Pivotal, discussed the company’s Pivotal One product, development trends, and his take on the recently concluded Velocity conference, with theCUBE host John Furrier, live in Santa Clara. Pivotal’s objective is to “enable the consumer Internet.” Their goal is to take the technology and trends in the consumer segment ...

Being a Great Technologist Doesn’t Cut it Anymore : Influence without Authority

Kate Matsudaira, founder and CTO at popforms, discussed the upcoming Cultivate conference, leadership trends in the tech space, and her keynote on that particular topic with theCUBE host John Furrier, live at the recently concluded O’Reilly Velocity conference in Santa Clara. O’Reilly’s Cultivate event aims to “create a conference for software and tech leaders or ...

DevOps Diva Takes on Orchestration, Provisioning + Moving Past Just Ops

Mandi Walls, Senior Technical Evangelist for Opscode, also known as the DevOps Diva, discussed DevOps trends, along with automation, orchestration, and other key aspects of the marketplace with theCUBE host John Furrier, live at the recently concluded O’Reilly Velocity conference in Santa Clara. DevOps has been validated, Walls said, even “in the enterprise where they ...

Performance Perception, DevOps + People : #VelocityConf Highlights

Courtney Nash, Editor O’Reilly Media, discussed the highlight of the Santa Clara event with theCUBE hosts John Furrier, live from the O’Reilly Velocity conference. “The thing that I was the most surprised by was this focus on perception,” Nash said. In terms of performance, “the time of a page to load used to be the ...

Companies Who Don’t Use Data Are at a Disadvantage : Exclusive Hadoop Summit Coverage

Sanjay Mathur, Founder and CEO of Silicon Valley Data Science, discussed data driven businesses and recently launched Silicon Valley Data Science plans live with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at the recently concluded 2013 Hadoop Summit. Silicon Valley Data Science is striving to bring together a team of engineers, data scientists and platform ...