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

Convergence is the new way for enterprises to buy infrastructure | #HPDiscover

Convergence as a new way for customers to purchase infrastructure with Hewlett-Packard Co. Nariman Teymourian, SVP & GM, HP Converged Systems explained that customers “are not buying pieces anymore, they are buying infrastructure in a way that comes with a management layer on top.” In a live interview with SiliconANGLE’s roving news desk, theCUBE, at ...

Implementing SDN should start with business value | #HPDiscover

The transition to Software Defined Networking (SDN) should start with the business value, not the technology layer. Alastair Winner, VP, HP Technology Services, HP Servers & Networking, explained in his live interview with theCUBE  that SDN is a big strategic area of investment for HP and for the customers. “It’s a big transition going from ...

HAVEn on-demand is HP’s cloud play, simplified | #HPDiscover

    The launch of on-demand products and services from Hewlett Packard Co. comes as a response to customer requests. “We’ve gotten a lot of requests for cloud offerings of our products, and that’s just a natural progression from where we’ve been [on premise],” said Colin Mahony, SVP & GM, HP Software Big Data in ...

Flexibility in IT helps businesses grab new opportunities | #HPDiscover

To successfully pitch Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI), Hewlett-Packard Co. does not focus solely on technology, as business value needs to be the driver. Stopping by theCUBE at HP Discover this week in Barcelona, Johan Deschuyffeleer, SVP & GM, HP Technology Services Consulting said the pitch “is about what the customers can build with this technology, ...

Cash heals all of HP’s wounds, says analyst: Turnaround needs an R&D revival | #HPDiscover

The cloud and infrastructure divisions of Hewlett-Packard Co. were the big stars during the first day of HP Discover Barcelona, while the software group, in many ways, was less prominent. In their analysis of the event debut, theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier debated over the day’s keynote and HP CEO Meg Whitman’s image, ...

HP splitting apart, cloud business still young | #HPDiscover

A mirror image of Hewlett Packard Co’s USA show, the major announcement of the first day of HP Discover Barcelona was the company’s split into two Fortune 50 companies. theCUBE co-host John Furrier commented on the news and said there was “not a lot of negative backlash on that. The consensus is there really is ...

Augmented Reality improving real world customer experiences digitally| #HPDiscover

Augmented Reality-based apps can bring huge increases to click-through rates and customer conversion rates, and Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Software as a Service product Aurasma is the market leader. In her live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, Annie Weinberger, Vice President & General Manager, Augmented Reality & Multichannel Optimization at HP, explained the marketing benefits of ...

The openness in networking trend is customer driven | #HPDiscover

  The move for openness and interoperable solutions in the networking space is a customer driven move, and single-vendor solutions are pushing consumers away, according to one cloud executive. In his live interview with theCUBE at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Discover Event in Barcelona, Sarwar Raza, Director of Cloud Networking and SDN, HP Networking, further explained that ...

As agility demands increase, SDN ensures the power of networking simplicity | #HPDiscover

As more apps and end users move towards the cloud, a primary customer requirement around networking is agility. “The demands around agility just keep increasing,” said Dominic Wilde, VP of Marketing and Global Product Line Management, HP Networking in his live interview with theCUBE co-hosts at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s annual Discover event in Barcelona this week. “What ...

HP capitalizes on the x86 server void created by IBM| #HPDiscover

Exiting the x86 server business, IBM has created a huge opportunity for Hewlett-Packard Co. Chuck Smith, VP of Business Development, HP Servers, said the company “continues to invest in the space,” as well as in its apps and the new style of IT. In his live interview with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, ...