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

Hortonworks and Platfora see Hadoop as a key to partner strategy | #BigDataSV

Enterprises take a platform based, turn-key solution approach to Big Data and Hadoop, thus building an ecosystem around Hadoop is a key priority to Hortonworks. “Hadoop is no longer an option; it’s a key piece of the overall architecture. There has to be a core that people like Platfora can build on top of,” said ...

Hadoop is now a board room discussion | #BigDataSV

IBM is counting on a long future with Hadoop, and the evidence is in their Big Data strategy. “Hadoop is no longer an IT discussion. CEOs are asking about Hadoop, so there’s a great interest in this topic. Hadoop is a board room discussion,” said Rob Thomas, vice president of product development for Big Data ...

More acquisitions coming to the Hadoop space | #BigDataSV

The Big Data and Hadoop markets are seeing more consolidation, and the trend is showing across the industry. In their opening segment to BigDataSV, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Kelly outlined the latest announcements in the Hadoop space and future trends around consolidation and innovation. With Cloudera, Inc. reaching 100 million dollars in revenue ...

Oracle advances in converged computing business | #datacenter

“Oracle is making a big march toward converged computing,” said Mike Jennings, CEO of Secure24. In his interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at Oracle’s Next Generation Engineered Systems Launch Event, he said that “as a partner and a company that hosts a lot of Oracle products, we’re seeing benefits” in terms ...

How San Francisco gov’t competes with Google for top tech talent | #datacenter

The City of San Francisco’s Controller’s Office says their main tech challenge is hiring the IT staff they need to compete with companies such as Google or Uber Technologies, Inc. Dennis McCormick, Deputy Director, Controller’s Office, City of San Francisco explained in his live interview with theCUBE at the Oracle Next Generation Engineered Systems Launch event ...

System z 13 is built to navigate the mobile transaction wave | #IBMz

IBM’s System z 13 is built for the mobile economy, showing that an emphasis on end-to-end data encryption and embedded analytics is key for the company and it’s customers. At IBM’s zNext event, Tom Rosamilia, Senior Vice President, IBM STG, stated in his live interview with theCUBE that z13 is the “first system built from the ground ...

System z takes analytics, security, and transactional data in-processor | #IBMz

While in-memory table solutions currently represent the state-of-the-art standard of the industry, IBM’s new System z moves analytics on transactional data, with security and encryption running at the processor level. In her live interview from IBM zNext with theCUBE, Kathryn Guarini, Vice President for zSystems at IBM said “this machine really is unmatched,” due to ...

Cloud computing reboots the relevance of the mainframe | #IBMz

IBM’s 13th generation of System z has just been launched and its integration with the cloud brings the “mainframe back on the table as a relevant piece of infrastructure,” says Dave Vellante in his opening analysis with John Furrier that kicked off theCUBE’s IBM zNext coverage on Wednesday. In itself, this billion dollar investment only ...

Simplicity in the Data Center is about more than hiding complexity | #HPDiscover

Product announcements at HP Discover Barcelona are the fruits of Hewlett-Packard Inc.’s investments in research and development in both storage and converged systems. David Scott, SVP & GM, HP Storage, said in his live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, that for the mainstream use cases, “HP with 3PAR is better positioned than ...

HP Helion gets full release, all about open source | #HPDiscover

Hewlett-Packard Co.’s HP Helion is all about open source and sharing everything, according to the company. “It’s very exciting to get a full release delivered along with the developer environment,” said Mark Interrante, SVP, Engineering, HP Cloud, in his live interview from HP Discover Barcelona with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. “Everything that ...