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

HPE’s earnings and outlook beat forecasts, but sales growth stalls

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Despite reporting better-than-expected earnings and raising its 2019 forecast Thursday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Friday saw its shares move sideways as investors digested some mixed results. Initially HPE’s stock rose more than 3 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after the veteran …

Talend shares surge 20% on strong cloud revenue growth

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Shares of Talend SA jumped surged nearly 14 percent in after-hours trading today on an unexpectedly narrower loss in its fiscal fourth quarter. The company also showed good progress in its March to the cloud, with sales of Talend Cloud reaching …

IBM brings Watson AI to any cloud

AI By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

With public cloud providers competing to be the favored destination for their customers’ artificial intelligence projects, IBM Corp. has decided to bring its Watson technology out from behind the Big Blue firewall for the first time. At its flagship Think 2019 conference …

Trust but verify: Machine learning’s magic masks hidden frailties

AI By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

The idea sounded good in theory: Rather than giving away full-boat scholarships, colleges could optimize their use of scholarship money to attract students willing to pay most of the tuition costs. So instead of offering a $20,000 scholarship to one needy student, …

Orange is the new gold: Telemarketing firm molds inmates into sales stars

POLICY By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Like many telemarketing professionals, Teresa Peterson works a nine-hour day, supporting a team of professionals working phones, building heat maps for her client’s account-based marketing program and staying on top of sales leads until deals are closed. But unlike most telemarketing professionals, …

Zillow awards $1M to winners of data science contest that drew 3,800 entrants

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Closing out a nearly two-year-long data science competition, Zillow Inc. awarded a $1 million prize Wednesday to a loosely federated group of three people who figured out how to beat its home price-estimating benchmark model by 13 percent. Zillow said the techniques …

IBM boosts data scientists with certification and apprenticeship program

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is attempting to give the data science profession a boost by championing a new certification and launching an internal apprenticeship program today that gives young people with no information technology experience a chance to become professional data scientists. The U.S. …

SAP tops revenue forecast but will cut 4,400 jobs in cloud-driven restructuring

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Beating fourth-quarter revenue expectations, software giant SAP SE nonetheless announced its first restructuring in four years as it adjusts its skill base in anticipation of a growing shift to the cloud. SAP said the restructuring will reduce its workforce by about 4,400 …

Complexity concerns rain on the multicloud parade

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Gary Lamb remembers working on one cloud computing migration project so tricky that it was never completed. It’s an object lesson on how the seemingly boundless promise of the cloud can get mired in earthly concerns. The government agency attempting the migration was …

Machine learning anchors AppDynamics’ ‘central nervous system’ monitoring vision

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Cisco Systems Inc.’s AppDynamics subsidiary is broadening its monitoring scope and folding machine learning into its technology in a campaign aimed at bringing more automation to complex multicloud environments. The company, which Cisco swooped in to acquire two years ago just hours before …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

HPE’s earnings and outlook beat forecasts, but sales growth stalls

IBM brings Watson AI to any cloud

Trust but verify: Machine learning’s magic masks hidden frailties

Zillow awards $1M to winners of data science contest that drew 3,800 entrants

IBM boosts data scientists with certification and apprenticeship program

SAP tops revenue forecast but will cut 4,400 jobs in cloud-driven restructuring

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