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

Software-Defined Networking Makes the Network Responsive to the Business

Bethany Mayer, SVP & GM at HP Networking, discussed trends in fabric, software defined networking, network behavior, and security with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at HP Discover 2013. “The business has continued to go very well, we’re at our 14th consecutive quarter of growth for HP Networking,” Mayer said. “We’re shipping ...

We Need Intelligent Networks to Make Use of Internet of Things Data, says Broadcom’s Nick Ilyadis

Nick Ilyadis, CTO of Broadcom, discussed his company’s long lasting relationship with HP, security trends, and the big trend of  Internet of Things with theCube co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at the HP Discover 2013 conference. “We’re on our 13th generation of Ethernet controllers and HP has been a customer of ours for ...

The Better a Business Uses the Data Available to Them, the Better Their Results | #HPDiscover

Johan Deschuyffeleer, SVP and GM, Technology Services Consulting at HP, explored the range of consulting services his division offers to HP customers with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at the HP Discover 2013 event. “We belong to the enterprise group and want to make sure any customer that buys a product or ...

Converged Infrastructure : Flexibility, Support for Multiple Protocols + Fabrics | #HPDiscover

Rob Crawford, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sale Sales at networking firm QLogic, discussed converged technologies, the switch business and the recent changes within the company with theCUBE host Stu Miniman, live at the 2013 edition of HP Discover. “We’ve got big presence this year at the show,” Crawford said, commenting on HP Discover. “HP is a big ...

HP HAVEn Explores 3 Facets of Big Data: Machine, Business + Human Info | #HPDiscover

Robert YoungJohn, SVP & GM, Autonomy HP, discussed the HAVEn platform, Big Data trends and application development trends with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at HP Discover 2013. “Big Data is in that phase right now where everybody talks about it,” but they each refer to different things, YoungJohn said. HP identified three ...

Customers “need tools to speed up business, reduce time to market,” says Savvis’ Brent Juelich #HPDiscover

Brent Juelich, VP Application Services at Savvis, talked about the company’s partnership with HP, their uses of SAP’s HANA and application development with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at the 2013 edition of HP Discover. Savvis has been HP partner for quite some time, Juelich said, “we’re always looking for innovative ways ...

Autonomy + HAVEn : Ad Smarts that Take Mad Men to Kindergarten | #HPDiscover

HAVEn is one of the more curious launches at HP Discover this week, making a business of open frameworks, all in the name of boosting data analytics.  Broadcasting live from the event, theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly spoke with Rafiq Mohammadi, GM, Marketing Optimization at HP Autonomy, about the HAVEn release, Autonomy and how ...

Software is Where Innovation Meets Advancement #IBMEdge

Steve Kenniston, Global Storage Evangelist at IBM, and Randy Arsenault, Platform Strategy Consultant at IBM, discussed the latest storage trends, software-defined everything, open vs. proprietary and the future of flash with theCUBE host Dave Vellante at the 2013 edition of IBM Edge. “I think it is a really exciting time,” for storage, Kenniston said. “You have the ...

SDN : An “Open” Opportunity to Rethink Network Design | #HPDiscover

Dave Larson, VP and CTO for HP Networking, discussed software-defined networking beyond the buzz with theCube co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Frick, live at the HP Discover 2013 event this week. “Software-defined networking is offering a new opportunity to rethink the way we build our networks,” Larson said, “how to extract business value from it.”  Commenting ...

People Don’t Need Cloud, but Flexibility + Control over Data | #HPDiscover

Antonio Neri, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Technology Services at HP, discussed his company’s new announcement around Big Data services, cloud and data management with theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Frick and John Furrier, live at HP Discover 2013. Converged cloud and Big Data are the main areas of focus, Neri said. On the Big Data front, ...