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

Linux Foundation expands into the fight against COVID-19

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

The Linux Foundation is joining the battle against COVID-19 with a program aimed at building on top of the foundational contact tracing work being done jointly by Google LLC and Apple Inc. The Linux Foundation Public Health initiative is launching with seven premier …

Retooling technology for cloud native means upgrading people, too

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

When Rice University adopted a strategy to update its application portfolio with cloud native software, it needed to update its people, too. “We needed to retrain our staff,” said Klára Jelínkova, vice president for international operations and information technology. The infrastructure teams …

IBM revenue falls but not as much as worried investors feared

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp.’s earnings declined in the second quarter but beat analysts’ estimates in most critical areas and executives expressed confidence that the company is well-positioned to gain market share when the economy recovers. Adjusted profit fell to $2.18 a share from $3.17 …

As cloud native computing rises, it’s transforming culture as much as code

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Rice University is in the process of shifting from a legacy on-premises enterprise resource planning application to one built entirely in the cloud. Along the way, the university is also shedding about 20 related special-purpose applications it has accumulated over the years. …

Oracle cloud apps get machine learning, digital assistant upgrades

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. today updated its cloud-based enterprise resource planning, enterprise performance management and supply chain management software with features it says will be particularly useful to businesses seeking to manage more effectively during the uncertainty of a global pandemic. With a focus …

Oracle brings flagship Autonomous Database to on-premises Cloud@Customer deployments

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. is taking an important step toward its goal of becoming a top-tier cloud infrastructure provider today with the announcement that its flagship Autonomous Database will now be available for customers to use within their own data centers through the Exadata …

Emergency responders finding SMS is a whole lot more than text messages

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

With lockdowns beginning to ease, government agencies are taking a hard look at their emergency management and alert systems and finding that there’s a lot more more power in Short Message Service than meets the eye. Text messaging may appear to be …

Ahana bring PrestoDB distributed database to AWS and Docker Hub

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Backed by $2.25 million in an initial funding round led by Google LLC’s GV Management Co LLC, Ahana Cloud Inc. today released the open-source version of the PrestoDB distributed database on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud platform and in a containerized version on …

The pandemic pivot: How IT groups are laboring to make remote working work

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

For Chris Conry, the sudden shift to working from home in March was a bit of a revelation. The chief information officer at cloud collaboration software provider Fuze Inc. had always been an inveterate office worker, commuting some 80 miles a day …

HPE bundles software under Ezmeral brand and expands Greenlake packaged services

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. today is kicking off its Discover virtual conference by making a statement of sorts about its commitment to be a major software player, albeit in the corner of the market devoted to helping organizations run complex computing fabrics. …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Linux Foundation expands into the fight against COVID-19

IBM revenue falls but not as much as worried investors feared

Oracle cloud apps get machine learning, digital assistant upgrades

Oracle brings flagship Autonomous Database to on-premises Cloud@Customer deployments

Emergency responders finding SMS is a whole lot more than text messages

The pandemic pivot: How IT groups are laboring to make remote working work

HPE bundles software under Ezmeral brand and expands Greenlake packaged services

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