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

For better or worse, multiple clouds are here to stay

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

In information technology circles, it’s called “one throat to choke.” It’s a metaphor for chief information officers’ preference for concentrating most of their business with a single strategic supplier in each category of application and infrastructure. The approach has a lot of …

Remediant lands $15M to take privileged access management security mainstream

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Remediant Inc., developer of a new breed of access control software called privileged access management, today announced that it has raised $15 million in a new funding round. The Series A investment led by Dell Technologies Capital and Forgepoint Capital Management LLC will …

IronNet offers threat-sharing service free to small firms

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

IronNet Cybersecurity Inc. a five-year-old security intelligence company founded by a group of former national security officials and Beltway insiders, is making its principal collaboration platform available free to qualifying organizations. The company charges some enterprise customers a significant though undisclosed sum …

The sun sets on the big-data era: HPE to acquire MapR’s assets

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. said today it will acquire the assets of MapR Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed sum, ending a two-month drama that cast a harsh light on the struggles of once high-flying big-data companies. HPE said the deal, which was announced …

IBM moves quickly to shift software base to Red Hat OpenShift

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is losing no time in its efforts to demonstrate results from its acquisition of Red Hat Inc., which closed just three weeks ago. The company today is announcing that it will make much of its software portfolio available in cloud-native …

Why hardware still matters in the era of cloud computing

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

The University of California at San Diego has adopted a cloud-first strategy that involves retiring three mainframes, shifting as many computing workloads as possible to the cloud and abandoning on-premises software in favor of software-as-a-service wherever possible. “I long ago realized that …

Replicant raises $7 million for conversational AI system for contact centers

AI By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence startup Replicant Inc. today said it has raised $7 million in seed funding for its customer relationship-focused voice response technology and appointed a former executive from contact center unicorn Talkdesk Inc. as chief executive. The San Francisco-based company said its automated …

Data governance specialist Collibra zeroes in on raft of new privacy regulations

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Collibra Inc., which makes software that helps companies enforce the integrity and security of their data, today is launching a new product aimed at helping enterprises comply with two major privacy-related regulations: the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the soon-to-be-enacted …

SAP stock falls as earnings come up short, but execs say it’s a blip

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

SAP SE missed estimates on both profit and revenue in its fiscal second quarter, sending its stock down nearly 5% in early trading, but the company blamed the shortfalls on uncertainty caused by trade tensions with China and said it’s on track to …

IBM’s revenue slide drags on, but strong profit growth buoys investors

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Updated: IBM Corp.’s business continued to shrink in its fiscal second quarter, although its profit grew at a faster clip than analysts expected and the company reaffirmed its full-year earnings guidance. The news initially buoyed investors, but sentiment turned negative after the …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Remediant lands $15M to take privileged access management security mainstream

IronNet offers threat-sharing service free to small firms

The sun sets on the big-data era: HPE to acquire MapR’s assets

IBM moves quickly to shift software base to Red Hat OpenShift

Replicant raises $7 million for conversational AI system for contact centers

Data governance specialist Collibra zeroes in on raft of new privacy regulations

LATEST FROM THECUBE

UPCOMING CUBE EVENTS

RECENT CUBE EVENTS

GraphTalk 2026

AMD Advancing AI 2026

RAISE Summit 2026

Pure Accelerate 2026

FinOps X 2026

SIGN IN

Bio

Ethics statement

Contact us

Partner with us

Contact us

Guest inquiry