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

Grafana Labs says its visualization engine is now a full-scale observability platform

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 announced the general availability of Grafana 7.0 with faster visualizations and features to simplify the development of custom plugins. …

Two security startups independently chip away at passwords

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Two startups are separately tackling the task of eliminating passwords from standard online interactions with new products announced today. Identité Inc. is rolling out a mobile app-based authentication system that it says eliminates the need for passwords while also shortening the login …

Microsoft leads $30M funding round for FortressIQ’s process improvement technology

AI By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

FortressIQ Inc., the maker of an operational improvement platform that uses machine learning to observe and recommend improvements to business processes, today announced it has raised $30 million in a new funding round. The Series B round was led by Microsoft Corp.’s …

Talend earnings impress but company withdraws full-year guidance

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Talend SA showed no ill effects from its recent chief executive transition today as the data integration provider soundly beat both revenue and earnings estimates in its first quarter. Revenues rose just over 18% over the same period last year, to $68.1 million, …

IBM CEO says pandemic will be a turning point for digital transformation

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

In a keynote address that was light on specifics but long on intentions, new IBM Corp. Chief Executive Arvind Krishna today promised to make IBM more responsive to the industries in which its customers operate, easier to work with and dedicated to …

Orca raises $20M for nonintrusive multicloud security platform

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Orca Security Ltd. today said it has secured $20 million in a Series A funding to advance its novel cybersecurity approach. The company claims it can find vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, weak passwords, lateral movement risks, secret keys and sensitive data such as personally …

Dremio’s AWS-specific data lake query engine comes with a nice price: $0

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Dremio Corp., a self-service analytics company whose technology is based on the Apache Arrow columnar processing engine, today is introducing a data lake query engine that’s purpose-built for Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure. It also announced two new technologies that it said …

IBM targets IT administrators with Watson-fueled infrastructure manager

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Boasting that it already has more than 70,000 attendees preregistered for its Think Digital conference, IBM Corp. today is kicking off the virtual event with a more muted lineup of new product rollouts than usual highlighted by a reinvigorated set of Watson …

Don’t drink zero-trust Kool-Aid, says maker of secure hardware appliance

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Interest in zero-trust security has been rising in a pandemic-stricken world, but Henry Harrison is having none of it. The co-founder of U.K.-based Garrison Technology Ltd. believes cyberattackers will never be fully shut down as long as endpoints such as personal computers …

No malaise at Microsoft: Cloud helps office giant toast earnings target

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

On the day the Federal Reserve Chairman called economic data for the second quarter “worse than any data we’ve seen for the economy,” Microsoft demonstrated that it’s doing just fine by blowing away consensus estimates, even exceeding pre-coronavirus forecasts. Fiscal third-quarter revenue …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Grafana Labs says its visualization engine is now a full-scale observability platform

Two security startups independently chip away at passwords

Microsoft leads $30M funding round for FortressIQ’s process improvement technology

Talend earnings impress but company withdraws full-year guidance

Dremio’s AWS-specific data lake query engine comes with a nice price: $0

IBM targets IT administrators with Watson-fueled infrastructure manager

Don’t drink zero-trust Kool-Aid, says maker of secure hardware appliance

No malaise at Microsoft: Cloud helps office giant toast earnings target

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