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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In a product blitz, Dell pushes edge, cloud, AI and hyperconverged buttons

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Continuing a cavalcade of product rollouts at its Dell Technologies World conference this week in Las Vegas, Dell Technologies Inc. pushed many of the industry’s hottest buttons today with the announcement of new capabilities in cloud, hyperconverged infrastructure, edge computing and artificial …

A year on, EU’s GDPR hasn’t changed data governance practices much, studies find

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

With the first anniversary of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation coming late next month, a pair of new studies find that the law’s onerous penalties for failure to protect personal information haven’t produced much change in corporate data governance. An annual audit published …

Okera ups its game in data lake governance

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Data governance startup Okera Inc. today is adding attribute-based access control and automated business metadata tagging to the policy enforcement capabilities of its software for managing, securing and governing data access on data lakes at large scale. The company, which launched from …

Reporting blowout earnings, SAP says profits are now top priority

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

SAP SE toasted analyst expectations for both revenue and earnings on 48% growth in cloud revenue in the first quarter and raised its 2019 profit outlook, sending shares up more than 12% today. The software giant’s net profit jumped 25%, to 1.08 …

Quest Software adds containers to its infrastructure monitoring suite

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Quest Software Inc. is extending its Foglight systems monitoring software line to support containers with real-time and historical analysis features that can be used to quickly identify problems in container implementations spread across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Foglight is an application …

Reeling us in: How phishing email scams keep getting smarter

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Open your preferred email client. Now hit “page down” three times. Chances are one of the messages that just scrolled past you is a phishing email, a message that’s intended to fool you into sending money to a stranger, giving up your …

Trovares reels in $2M for high-performance graph analytics engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Trovares Inc., a property graph analytics company started by the co-founder and former chief executive of Cray Inc., has raised $2 million to launch a new graph analytics engine. The engine uses parallel processing to deliver what the company says is order-of-magnitude …

IBM beats on profits but misses on revenue, sending investors into a funk

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. beat first-quarter net income estimates today but disappointed investors with a larger-than-expected decline in quarterly revenue, sending its stock down more than 3% in after-hours trading. The company blamed delayed decision-making in the Asia-Pacific region for the shortfall and continued …

For commercial drone pilots, the sky’s the limit now

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Dan Landis was a model aircraft enthusiast who cut his cut his teeth flying drones in Afghanistan and Iraq as a military contractor. Desiree Ekstein was a videographer whose mother suggested a drone might give her work some new perspective. Scott Shepard …

JetStream combines replication, cloud storage for fast data restoration

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

A year and a week after emerging from stealth, data migration software developer JetStream Software Inc. is entering the data protection market with a service that backs up entire virtual machine images to on-premises infrastructure, the cloud or a combination. JetStream is …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

A year on, EU’s GDPR hasn’t changed data governance practices much, studies find

Okera ups its game in data lake governance

Quest Software adds containers to its infrastructure monitoring suite

Reeling us in: How phishing email scams keep getting smarter

Trovares reels in $2M for high-performance graph analytics engine

For commercial drone pilots, the sky’s the limit now

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