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

Technology Shouldn’t Make You Feel Stupid : ServiceNow Gives CIOs Clearer View of IT Dept. | #servicenow

Fred Luddy, Founder and CPO at ServiceNow, discussed his long career as a programmer, his vision of services for business process management and technology trends with theCube co-hosts Jeff Frick and Dave Vellante, live at the ServiceNow Knowledge 2013 conference today. SMAC as they are called (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud), are here to stay, ...

Accelerate Time to Value + Increase Value for Customers : ServiceNow’s Recipe for Success

James Fitzgerald, Global Vice President of Services at ServiceNow, talked service strategy, business value measurement and stimulating the growth of the company’s ecosystem with theCube co-hosts Jeff Frick and Dave Vellante, live at ServiceNow Knowledge. “We break it down into two distinct areas we focus on: time to value and amount of value,” Fitzgerald said, ...

“Out of Diversity Comes Triumph” in Automation : CIOs Must Be Disruptive | #servicenow

Chris Pope, Director of Product Management, ServiceNow, discussed the Service Automation Platform, business process automation and security for ServiceNow’s cloud-based platform with theCube co-hosts Jeff Frick and Dave Vellante, live at the ServicesNow Knowledge conference. David Vellante pointed out that the real value of ServiceNow is that it allows companies to change the business process ...

NBA Outplays Rival Stats Sites with Data and Technology | #SAPPHIRENOW 2013

Adam Silver, NBA Deputy Commissioner, discussed the impact of technology on basketball games and the business value driven from data with theCube co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Kelly, live at SAPhireNOW 2013. The main issue the NBA has worked on with SAP was their need for a solution for their statistics database, as officials wanted to ...

EMC’s Data Protection Architecture Started as an Internal Project to Solve It’s Own Problems #emcworld

Stephen Manley, CTO, EMC BRS, discussed the company’s results and future plans for its backup and recovery solutions with theCube co-hosts Dave Vellante and David Floyer, live at EMC World 2013. Recapping the BRS results since its launch a  year ago, Manley mentioned the new releases for their Data Domain solution, the latest version of ...

Flash Everywhere + Software-Defined Anything Are the Answers, Says VCE’s Trey Layton

Trey Layton, VCE CTO, discussed converged infrastructure, scale-out trends and software-defined software with theCube co-hosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman live at the 2013 edition of EMC World. Layton said he had been getting a lot of feedback from both existing customers and potential customers that are testing VCE solutions against the company’s competition, and they ...

Data Growth Will Never Slow Down, Says EMC’s Brian Gallagher #emcworld

Brian Gallagher, EMC President Enterprise Storage Division, discussed the company’s recent growth, future plans and forecasts, as well as industry trends with theCube co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier live at EMC World 2013. Commenting on EMC’s double-digit growth, Gallagher said, “we’ve been in a well-established market for years,” especially with the focus on enterprise ...

Testing EMC’s ViPR Firsthand : Embracing Diversity in Storage Estates #emcworld

Christopher Flaesch, VP of Global Delivery, CSC Managed Services, discussed the new ViPR release from EMC, sharing his unique perspective as a customer who has been testing the solution for a year, with theCube co-hosts David Floyer and Dave Vellante, live at EMC World 2013. This major ViPR customer focuses on product management for storage ...

NYSE Technologies Takes on Big Data, Cloud Adoption and Legacy Infrastructures in the Trading Market #emcworld

Mark Wright, Vice President of Platform Service, NYSE Technologies, explained his company’s offering of transaction, infrastructure and data services to banks and brokerage firms with theCube co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at EMC World 2013. Talking about the company’s main customer base, made up of banks and brokerage firms and other trading companies, Wright ...

Focusing on Verticals Lets You Grow Faster than the Marketplace, Says Avnet’s John Tonthat #emcworld

John Tonthat, Director of Marketing and Business Development, Avnet, discussed the benefits of VSPEX for companies looking to bring their solutions to the market with theCube co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at EMC World 2013. Talking about Avnet’s recent evolution, Tonthat said “we’ve moved into solutions distribution,” that means not only helping partners ...