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

Cloudera relents, adopts pure open-source strategy

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Who acquired whom? Although billed as a “merger of relative equals,” last fall’s combination of Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. was by all accounts a Cloudera acquisition of its smaller big-data rival. But it now appears that Hortonworks’ open-source business model has …

Alluxio’s data orchestration platform now spans multiple clouds

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Alluxio Inc., developer of a virtual distributed file system aimed specifically at data science and analytics workloads, today released what it says is the most significant enhancement to its platform since its initial release more than three years ago. The company sells …

After closing Red Hat acquisition, IBM bids for hybrid cloud dominance

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

When it announced its intention to acquire Red Hat Inc. last October, IBM said it expected to close the deal in the third quarter of 2019. Big Blue let little grass grow under its feet in fulfilling that pledge, announcing this morning …

MapR pins hopes on single investor as rescue deadline passes

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. missed a self-imposed July 3 deadline to secure new funding or find a buyer, but said it’s continuing discussions with a potential funding source that could keep the big-data company in business. “MapR is making meaningful progress toward a …

Report sees peril in cybercriminals’ looming use of AI

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

A new report this week by anti-malware vendor Malwarebytes Inc. paints an ominous picture of the potential impact of artificial intelligence technologies such as machine learning and deep learning once criminals have the skills and incentive to use them. That hasn’t happened yet, …

Red Hat earnings should have future parent IBM smiling

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

It appears that Red Hat Inc. is going out in style. In what may be the company’s last earnings report as an independent entity, the open-source software vendor beat expectations on both revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2020 first quarter. Revenue …

Unicorn sighting: Druva lands $130M for its cloud-native data protection service

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Cloud data protection startup Druva Inc. today said it has raised $130 million in new investment, bringing its total funding to $328 million and vaulting it into the ranks of “unicorns,” or startups with an estimated value of more than $1 billion. This …

HPE ups its hybrid cloud game with intelligent management and high-end storage array

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is kicking off its annual Discover conference this week with a host of announcements aimed at moving its hybrid cloud initiative ahead and folding artificial intelligence into its infrastructure management offerings. Updates include the extension of current machine-learning-driven …

NetApp ports cloud tools to its hyperconverged platform to ease hybrid deployments

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Continuing its diversification strategy beyond its storage legacy, NetApp Inc. today announced the availability of its NetApp Cloud Data Services on the hyperconverged appliance it introduced two years ago. The company said it’s also expanding the capabilities of its cloud management platform to …

MapR extends deadline to raise money for continued operations

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. has extended its deadline to July 3 to secure new funding or find a buyer. The company had previously said it would “cease operations and close the Santa Clara headquarters” by June 14 if it couldn’t raise funds. In …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Report sees peril in cybercriminals’ looming use of AI

HPE ups its hybrid cloud game with intelligent management and high-end storage array

MapR extends deadline to raise money for continued operations

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