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

HP heading in the right direction, still not where it’s supposed to be | #HPDiscover

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Despite recent moves to shift gears, Hewlett-Packard Co. still has a long way to go in its turnaround. In their intro segment for HP’s annual Discover event in Barcelona this week, theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier discussed the technology stalwart’s recent …

Wall Street does not understand the value of Twitter | #ibminsight

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

“Twitter is misunderstood on Wall Street and in the mainstream,” said John Furrier, SiliconANGLE cofounder, commenting on the recent results released by the social network. “What they have is an amazing real-time notification network,” Furrier explained. But, he added, the metrics …

We must understand data before we can protect it | #ibminsight

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Data is at the center of all security advancements. It fuels better data protection strategies, helps determine where the threats are coming from, and is the new perimeter that needs to be secured, according to Chris Poulin, the Research Strategist for …

IBM is good for investors who want to go long, says analyst | #ibminsight

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Every 20 years IBM goes through a transition, according to Ray Wang, the principal analyst, founder and chairman of Constellation Research. The company’s current transition revolves around shutting down hardware and focusing on software, as well as shedding old businesses and …

Tension caused by a new way to acquire Big Data services | #ibminsight

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

A new way to acquire Big Data services has caused a bit of tension, according to James Kobielus, Big Data Evangelist at IBM. Previously, employees had to go through corporate IT to secure data services, but today, “cloud and Software as a …

Before IT jumps on the data train, these changes must happen| #ibminsight

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Enterprises should become data driven even though they are still in the infancy of adopting data within IT, according to CIO Strategic Advisor Tim Crawford. The AVOA executive expects that IT departments will become more involved with their respective organizations holistically, cautioning that a …

Big Data applications demand agile infrastructure | #BigDataNYC

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

The Big Data transformation headed for the enterprise will be driven by the nature of applications and the new data repository. That means agile applications scaling horizontally will challenge the vertically-scaled notions of infrastructure, said former EMC President and theCUBE alumnus …

Big Data is a $1 trillion market, says Cloudera CSO Mike Olson | #BigDataNYC

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Big Data market is a trillion-dollar market, and that value will be realized not because of the data scientists, but because they have rendered their skills to applications and software that regular people can use, according to Mike Olson, chief strategy officer, …

Hortonworks to go public in early 2015, predicts analyst | #BigDataNYC

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Hortonworks Inc. has a big chance of winning the race to an initial public offering (IPO) amongst top players in world of Hadoop and Big Data. Jeff Kelly, Principal Research Analyst at Wikibon predicted the company will go public in early …

Hadoop challenges assumptions, old thinking in enterprise | #BigDataNYC

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Adopting new technologies has been difficult for many organizations because it requires changes in thinking. With Big Data and new ways of doing analytics, many traditional assumptions have been challenged in the enterprise, explained Ron Bodkin, President of Think Big, an advanced analytics company …

Alina Popescu

Latest from Alina Popescu

Wall Street does not understand the value of Twitter | #ibminsight

IBM is good for investors who want to go long, says analyst | #ibminsight

Big Data applications demand agile infrastructure | #BigDataNYC

Big Data is a $1 trillion market, says Cloudera CSO Mike Olson | #BigDataNYC

Hortonworks to go public in early 2015, predicts analyst | #BigDataNYC

Hadoop challenges assumptions, old thinking in enterprise | #BigDataNYC

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