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.

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Raising $11M, Edgewise boils complex network segmentation down to a single click

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Edgewise Networks Inc. said today it has raised $11 million in venture funding and also launched a new platform that it claims can radically shorten the time needed to create and manage “zero-trust” security environments using an increasingly popular network security technique called …

Salesforce to buy Tableau for $15.7B as analytics market consolidation accelerates

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Customer relationship management giant Salesforce.com Inc. early today said it’s buying Tableau Inc. in a blockbuster all-stock deal valued at $15.7 billion. The news comes just four days after Google LLC announced plans to acquire Tableau rival Looker Data Sciences Inc. for …

Google’s Looker purchase opens new front in cloud computing wars

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Google LLC is making its largest acquisition in the public cloud market with the intended purchase of business intelligence firm Looker Data Sciences Inc. for $2.6 billion in an all-cash transaction announced this morning. The deal has the potential to help jumpstart Google’s …

AtScale ups data warehouse support and adds development kit for platform integration

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

AtScale Inc., developer of a business intelligence abstraction platform that reduces or eliminates the the need for data extract/transform/load procedures, Wednesday updated its core software. The update includes the addition of native multidimensional support for Microsoft Corp.’s Power BI, improved integration with …

Salesforce.com reassures jittery investors with solid results and raised estimates

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Salesforce.com Inc. calmed investor concerns about slowing growth with solid fiscal first-quarter financial performance that eclipsed Wall Street estimates for both revenue and earnings. The company slightly lowered second-quarter earnings estimates but raised its full-year outlook to earnings of between $2.88 and …

VMware CTO sees one unified platform anchoring customers’ multicloud plans

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

A lot of VMware Inc.’s customers view it as what it was in the past: a company that “virtualizes” hardware to make data centers more flexible and efficient. Kit Colbert, chief technology officer of VMware’s cloud platform business unit, is here to …

VMware posts strong results, but investors wanted more

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Updated: VMware Inc. beat Wall Street estimates on both revenues and earnings in the first quarter, but the results weren’t quite the blowout investors have come to expect recently — and they responded with a light knuckle-wrap, sending shares down more than …

Big-data bombshell: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc., one of the troika of unicorn startups that emerged from the early days of the big-data movement, may cut up to 122 jobs and shut down its Santa Clara, California headquarters if it can’t secure additional funding. The company, …

JetStream raises $7.7M for cloud-native disaster recovery software

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

JetStream Software Inc. today said it secured new early-stage funding of $7.7 million for its data protection technology aimed at managed service and cloud service providers. The company had raised $3.8 million in an unannounced seed funding round early last year. JetStream President …

Dialpad gives sales reps real-time call transcription and coaching

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Dialpad Inc., developer of business messaging and conferencing systems based on the voice over internet protocol, is deepening its push into the sales force automation market. The latest fruit of the effort is today’s announcement of Dialpad Sell, a cloud service that …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Raising $11M, Edgewise boils complex network segmentation down to a single click

AtScale ups data warehouse support and adds development kit for platform integration

Salesforce.com reassures jittery investors with solid results and raised estimates

VMware posts strong results, but investors wanted more

Big-data bombshell: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

JetStream raises $7.7M for cloud-native disaster recovery software

Dialpad gives sales reps real-time call transcription and coaching

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