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

Cloud Is Disruptive to Traditional Storage, But It’s what Customers Want #AWSsummit

Chris Archinaco, Product Marketing Manager at Avere, Avere Systems, discussed the company’s move from traditional storage to a cloud solution theCube hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick, live at the Amazon AWS 2013 Summit. Avere is an established network-attached storage (NAS) provider and is now demonstrating its cloud storage prototype. “We really think that [ours] is the ...

Amazon EC2’s Dave Ward Reveals AWS Culture, Pricing + More [EXCLUSIVE]

Dave Ward, AWS Senior Manager EC2, discussed Amazon’s pricing options and strategies with theCube hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick, live at the Amazon AWS 2013 Summit Dave Vellante asked Ward, “the resident expert on compute pricing,” to discuss the different pricing options and giving a quick overview of what’s available. He explained that the main ...

Why Choose Amazon’s CDN? CloudFront Talks Cloud Economy at #AWSsummit

Nihar Bihani, AWS Senior Product Manager, discussed CloudFront, one of the Amazon services, with theCube host Jeff Frick, live at the Amazon AWS 2013 Summit. Offering an overview of what CloudFront is, Bihani described it as a content delivery service that provides customers with “an easy way to deliver their content globally,”  and that integrates well with other ...

Trend Micro on AWS Security : Moving to the Cloud Is about Info-structure, Not Infrastructure [VIDEO]

JD Sherry, Global Director of Technology and Solutions at Trend Micro, discussed the aspect of security in cloud adoption with theCube host Jeff Frick, live at the AWS 2013 Summit today. The issue Trend Micro set out to explore is that of securing assets when a company adopts the cloud. The main issue to consider is “what you ...

AWS Ecosystem Drives Innovation and Traction, Says Alfresco’s Luis Sala

Luis Sala, Director of Technology Alliances at Alfresco, discussed their technology partnership with Amazon’s AWS with theCube host Jeff Frick, SiliconANGLE, live from the AWS 2013 Summit. Describing Alfresco as an open source content management system, Luis Sala explained that their customers can download and run their CMS within minutes, but that the Cloud component helps ...

“Don’t worry about us, worry about our competitors,” Advises HP’s Jim Ganthier

Jim Ganthier, HP Vice President, Marketing and Operations, Industry Standard Servers and Software, discussed the HP Moonshot announcement with the Cube hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at the New York City event. “We see four massive new trends – mobile, social, cloud, big data. We looked at what it would take to make ...

HP Moonshot is “really about workload-optimized systems,” says Intel’s Raejeanne Skillern

Raejeanne Skillern, Director of Marketing, Cloud Computing, at Intel discussed cloud trends, the production of HP’s Moonshot system currently being shipped, Intel Atom and other technology trends inside the Cube with hosts David Vellante and John Furrier. Within HP’s Moonshot launch event in New York City, Skillern brought the first production Moonshot to show during ...

With Moonsthot, HP Targets Seamless, Simplified + Proactive Services for Customers

Scott Weller, HP’s VP and General Manager of Technology Services Support, discussed the company’s support and consulting services and how they have changed as a result of the Moonshot release with the Cube’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante. “We’re very excited about what’s going to come in the future,” Weller said, as traditional architecture means ...

“The new normal is going to be more integration,” says ARM’s Lakshmi Mandyam

Lakshmi Mandyam, Director of Server Systems and Ecosystems, discussed the ARM architecture and its role in HP’s Moonshot, as well as the impact of a battery-powered philosophy would have on technology trend at the Cube’s coverage of HP’s New York City hyperscale server launch. Mandyam discussed ARMs evolution since the end of 2011 with hosts ...

“We couldn’t afford to pass the opportunity” on HP Moonshot, says CGG’s Laurent Clerc

Laurent Clerc, Vice President Information Technology, Processing, Imaging & Reservoir, CGG, discussed the appliances of Moonshot to their industry niche at HP’s launch event in New York City with the Cube’s Dave Vellante and John Furrier. CGG is a geophysical services provider, “we acquire, process, and deliver images of the underground,” Clerc explained, one of ...