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

In broad Kubernetes rollout, Red Hat boosts cluster management and adds virtual machine links

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. is using the KubeCon/CloudNativeCon virtual exposition kicking off today to underscore its intentions to be to the Kubernetes container orchestrator what Red Hat Enterprise Linux is to the widely used operating system. Among a slate of announcements today are …

Grafana Labs raises $50M in oversubscribed funding round

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Raintank Inc.’s Grafana Labs, which is the lead developer of the Grafana and Loki open-source projects used to visualize time-series data, today said it raised $50 million in a funding round despite claiming not to need the money. The company said the Series …

Who needs live events? Virtual conferences are attracting more people than ever

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Domo Inc. scheduled its sixth annual Domopalooza conference for March 18, expecting more than 3,000 people to travel to Salt Lake City for four days of hands-on technical training, rubbing elbows with company executives and evening entertainment, culminating in a performance by …

Looker boosts marketing integration with parent Google in first updates since acquisition

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Looker Data Sciences Inc. today is releasing the first fruits of its joint development efforts with Google LLC since the search giant finalized the acquisition of the business intelligence company in February. Looker said the updates focus on modernizing BI, improving performance and …

Studies find epidemic of human errors threatens cloud security

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Two recent studies conducted by security providers highlight the growing risks of configuration errors, which have become the single greatest security threat users face in the cloud. User errors are already the second most common type of breach, according to Verizon Corp.’s …

Former Docker chief sees cloud native as a journey

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

As the former chief executive of Docker Inc., Ben Golub was pivotal in guiding software containers to their remarkable popularity. The self-contained software capsules that encompass applications and the services needed to run them have been widely adopted for their portability, compactness …

ServiceNow toasts earnings forecasts as pandemic actually helps its business

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

What pandemic? ServiceNow Inc. today reported revenues and profits for the second quarter that easily beat Wall Street estimates and raised its guidance for subscription revenue and billings for the full year, saying the COVID-19 crisis is actually helping the business. Subscription …

Cognizant picks up New Signature in fifth cloud-related acquisition of 2020

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Information technology consulting and technology services giant Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. said Tuesday it will acquire New Signature LLC, a company that specializes in application development and cloud migration in Microsoft Corp. Azure environments. The deal, which is Cognizant’s fifth cloud-related acquisition of the …

Image recognition startup raises $1.2 million to spot utility faults before they trigger wildfires

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Faulty utility equipment ignited more than 2,000 fires in California over a three-year period and power lines are the third most common cause of fires in the Golden State. Buzz Solutions Inc. is tackling the problem with machine learning. The three-year-old startup, …

SAP defies skeptics as cloud drives strong revenue and earnings growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Software giant SAP SE today beat lowered expectations on both revenue and profit in the second quarter, citing unexpectedly strong new customer activity despite customer caution during the pandemic. Revenues of $7.9 billion beat consensus estimates of $7.85 billion. Cloud revenue grew …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

In broad Kubernetes rollout, Red Hat boosts cluster management and adds virtual machine links

Grafana Labs raises $50M in oversubscribed funding round

Who needs live events? Virtual conferences are attracting more people than ever

Looker boosts marketing integration with parent Google in first updates since acquisition

ServiceNow toasts earnings forecasts as pandemic actually helps its business

Cognizant picks up New Signature in fifth cloud-related acquisition of 2020

Image recognition startup raises $1.2 million to spot utility faults before they trigger wildfires

SAP defies skeptics as cloud drives strong revenue and earnings growth

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