Paul Gillin

Paul Gillin is the Senior Editor for Wikibon’s micro-analysis team. He is the author of five books and more than 300 articles on the topic of social media and digital marketing. Gillin has 23 years experience in tech journalism, including his time as founding editor-in-chief of B2B technology publisher TechTarget as well as editor-in-chief and executive editor of the technology weekly Computerworld. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research and a member of the Procter & Gamble Digital Advisory Board.

Latest from Paul Gillin

VMware targets firewalls in first rollouts of its Modern Network framework

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Building on the Project Monterey enterprise virtualization strategy it outlined at its VMworld conference last month, VMware Inc. today announced a framework for network, security and physical infrastructure services along with a new subscription service for home-based workers and virtual access control services. …

Cloud computing storms a bastion of the enterprise: the data warehouse

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

In the course of managing 12 million requests for roadside an accident assistance across the U.S. each year, Agero Inc. crunches a lot of data. The contact center operation, including dispatch specialists, employs a team of data scientists to optimize the way …

Databricks nudges closer to bridging the gap between data lakes and warehouses

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Continuing its quest to make freeform data lakes a viable alternative to highly structured data warehouses, Databricks Inc. today debuted an engine that enables many workloads previously targeted at data warehouses to be executed on data lakes instead. SQL Analytics is said …

Strong cloud growth helps Talend beat earnings estimate

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Data integration firm Talend SA beat Wall Street estimates of its third-quarter earnings thanks to strong growth in its cloud business, indicating that it continues to turn the corner on the migration of its on-premises business to the cloud. The third-quarter loss of $4 …

Oracle lashes its CRM platform more tightly to back-office data

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. today introduced enhancements to its Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience customer relationship management application focused on improving both virtual selling and buying. Citing a recent Oracle-sponsored Beagle Research Group LLC study that found that traditional CRM systems are seen as more a …

Lob adds cloud big-data magic to plain old snail mail

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Some 306 billion email messages traverse the internet each day, but the need for physical mailboxes hasn’t gone away, a fact that was underscored by the U.S. election. The U.S. Postal Service still processes nearly 182 million first-class letters on a typical day. …

Apple tops estimates but won’t forecast upcoming quarter, sending shares down

APPS By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Fueled by strong growth in iPads and Macs during a broad global shift to employees working from home, Apple Inc. posted record fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $64.7 billion and a profit of 73 cents a share, slightly beating Wall Street estimates on …

Docker’s developer pivot is hitting the mark, executives say

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

As Docker Inc. approaches the first anniversary of a business reset following the sale of its enterprise business to Mirantis Inc. last November, executives are declaring its new developer focus a success. Now Docker needs to navigate the path to profitability selling …

Cloud helps Microsoft beat earnings forecast, but stock falls on weaker guidance

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. again demonstrated how tech providers are thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic, issuing quarterly results today that easily beat earnings and sales estimates thanks to strong growth for cloud services and personal computer software. However, the company issued slightly weaker-than-expected guidance …

Dremio says its query engine eliminates the need for cloud data warehouses

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Self-service analytics company Dremio Corp. today announced new technology that it claims can deliver sub-second query response times on cloud data lakes across thousands of concurrent users and queries. The startup is also rolling out new integrations with Microsoft Corp.’s Power BI and …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Databricks nudges closer to bridging the gap between data lakes and warehouses

Strong cloud growth helps Talend beat earnings estimate

Oracle lashes its CRM platform more tightly to back-office data

Lob adds cloud big-data magic to plain old snail mail

Apple tops estimates but won’t forecast upcoming quarter, sending shares down

Docker’s developer pivot is hitting the mark, executives say

Dremio says its query engine eliminates the need for cloud data warehouses

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