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

Looker broadens functional focus with new visualization app for sales pros

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Continuing its recent campaign to expand into functional specialties, Looker Data Sciences Inc. today is rolling out an extension to its business intelligence platform targeted specifically at sales professionals. Looker for Sales Analytics joins Looker for Digital Marketing and Looker for Web …

As hybrids flower, a new era dawns in cloud computing

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

For Kenny Mullican, the decision about whether to use a hybrid cloud was once cut-and-dried. “It was a binary choice between your own servers and going with a public cloud,” said the chief information officer at Paragon Films Inc. Fear of losing …

MapR separates Kubernetes storage and compute to boost container flexibility

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. is stepping up its efforts to hasten its customers’ moves to software containers with a new set of features in its MapR Data Platform that separates computing from storage. MapR described the enhancements, announced today, as deep integrations with the core …

SonicWall report paints sobering picture of cyberthreat trends

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

SonicWall Inc., the network security provider that spun out of Dell Technologies Inc. in 2016, today released its 2019 Cyber Threat Report, and the results don’t make happy reading for security personnel. The findings, which were gleaned from the company’s network of more than …

Ctera adds edge file server based on HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged platform

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Ctera Networks Ltd. today expanded its line of hyperconverged platforms for distributed organizations with a new model that manages data across multiple clouds. The Ctera X Series combines a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. SimpliVity processor with Ctera’s global file system to support edge …

VMware refreshes cloud portfolio with its first native hyperconverged appliance

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Showing more confidence that its hybrid and multicloud strategies are finding favor with enterprise customers, VMware Inc. today is expanding both the functional and geographic scope of its services. In particular, the company introduced a version of its Cloud Foundation migration product …

Io-Tahoe upgrades data catalog to spot and tag personal info in data streams

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Io-Tahoe LLC, a unit of British utility giant Centrica PLC, today is enhancing its machine learning-driven data catalog with features that it says can discover and classify streaming data. The capability can be used, among other things, to discover personally identifiable data …

In cybersecurity, it’s AI vs. AI: Will the good guys or the bad guys win?

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI last month made the unusual announcement: It had built an AI-powered content creation engine so sophisticated that it wouldn’t release the full model to developers. Anyone who works in cybersecurity immediately knew why. Phishing emails, which try …

VMware crushes earnings forecasts on larger deals and diversified products

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Amid a quarterly earnings season that’s a mixed bag for infrastructure players, VMware Inc. furnished the best evidence yet that it has successfully navigated the transition from server specialist to strategic information technology partner. The virtualization giant today reported fiscal fourth-quarter …

With major overhaul, VMware moves closer to ‘NSX everywhere’ ambitions

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. today is rolling out what it says is the most significant upgrade ever to its NSX network virtualization software, one that decouples the network from the VMware hypervisor. The upgrade essential decouples the network from VMware’s hypervisor, the software that …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Looker broadens functional focus with new visualization app for sales pros

MapR separates Kubernetes storage and compute to boost container flexibility

SonicWall report paints sobering picture of cyberthreat trends

With major overhaul, VMware moves closer to ‘NSX everywhere’ ambitions

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