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

Why Cardlytics ditched sample data for its real-time analytics tactics | #HPBigData2014

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

A smartly selected stream of structured data and a seamless rewards system comprise Cardlytics Inc.’s recipe for success. The financial data processor’s commercial Big Data stream consists of payment and purchase data, translated from the “simple act of swiping your [credit] card,” …

Hortonworks-HP deal counters Intel-Cloudera investment says Furrier | #HPBigData2014

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Buy into the Big Data hype, or risk being left out of a major cultural shift happening in today’s enterprise, said Wikibon.org analyst Jeff Kelly. Sharing his thoughts with theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante during SiliconANGLE’s day two coverage of …

Former Digg CEO reveals new VC fund, discusses his DevOps startup | #Peer2

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

After launching Digg, Inc. and Equinix, Inc., serial entrepreneur Jay Adelson is targeting DevOps with his latest startup, Opsmatic. He’s also planning to start a venture capital firm, although he’s revealing few details. Adleson says the experience he’s amassed from helping transform the Internet …

Universities are training CDOs, yet organizations can’t keep them | #MITIQ

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

The conversations around the emerging Chief Data Officer (CDO) role, what it should entail, and the subsequent interest shown by enterprise organizations led to a pivotal decision by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to modify its annual symposium’s original focus from information …

The CDO owns governance, not data | #MITIQ

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Over the last few years, the emergence of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) has become more clear. Initially, this new C-level role was more prevalent in healthcare, finance, government organizations. More recently, it has been bleeding into more commercial companies. In a …

How Big Data is helping the Navy’s 12-year journey to efficiency | #MITIQ

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

The US Navy has been undergoing a long process of IT infrastructure and resource centralization, an initiative started over 12 years ago. Detailing their progress along this journey to add efficiency and effectiveness is James Meng, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, …

How a CDO impacts business decisions: Understand the problem first| #MITIQ

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Data is a key enabler in enterprise IT, but there are more aspects to consider before deciding what solutions or systems to implement. Deborah Nightingale, Professor of the Practice of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems and Co-Director, MIT Lean Advancement Initiative, …

How you can save the gov’t time and money: Share “life event” data | #MITIQ

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

A strong focus on interoperability, data standardization and sharing, disciplines around IT architecture and frameworks pave the way to a portfolio of common good for government organizations. Pamela Wise-Martinez, Senior Strategic Enterprise Architect, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said her …

Two trends driving demand for HP’s converged systems: analytics + virtualization | #HPdiscover

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Converged systems have moved from a conversation of potential to real market opportunities. Currently, “20 percent of IT are demanding that they buy converged systems,” said Tom Joyce, SVP & General Manager of HP Converged Systems. In a live interview from this …

David Scott explains HP’s new all-flash storage, responds to EMC’s acquisition of XtremIO | #HPdiscover

NEWS By ALINA POPESCU12 YEARS AGO

Another revolution in storage — that is how David Scott see’s Hewlett-Packard’s recently announced all-flash 7450 array. The SVP & General Manager of HP Storage met in a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at HP Discover this …

Alina Popescu

Latest from Alina Popescu

Why Cardlytics ditched sample data for its real-time analytics tactics | #HPBigData2014

Hortonworks-HP deal counters Intel-Cloudera investment says Furrier | #HPBigData2014

Universities are training CDOs, yet organizations can’t keep them | #MITIQ

The CDO owns governance, not data | #MITIQ

How Big Data is helping the Navy’s 12-year journey to efficiency | #MITIQ

How a CDO impacts business decisions: Understand the problem first| #MITIQ

Two trends driving demand for HP’s converged systems: analytics + virtualization | #HPdiscover

David Scott explains HP’s new all-flash storage, responds to EMC’s acquisition of XtremIO | #HPdiscover

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