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

MariaDB merges transactional, analytical databases and debuts first managed service

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Open-source database provider MariaDB Corp. is combining its transactional and analytical databases into a single unit and launching a managed service supporting public and hybrid cloud deployments. The new MariaDB Platform X3 announced today merges the company’s MariaDB TX and MariaDB AX offerings …

OneLogin snares $100M in late-stage funding for its integrated identity management platform

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Cloud identity management vendor OneLogin Inc. today announced a late-stage $100 million venture capital investment round, bringing its total funding to more than $172 million. Chief Executive Brad Brooks (pictured) said he hopes the new Series D round will give the company …

Fear of disruption is driving growth in big-data investments

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Organizations are upping their investment in big-data and artificial intelligence initiatives, driven by fear of disruption more than a quest for operational efficiency. That’s according to a just-released NewVantage Partners LLC survey of Fortune 1,000 companies, most of which are in the …

2019 security forecast: Cloudy and unsettled, with a chance of gloom

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Back in April we asked 22 security experts whether we’re winning or losing the war against cybercriminals, and the consensus was almost unanimously negative. Not much has changed since then, and even the growing promise of artificial intelligence as a weapon has …

The 2019 forecast for cloud computing: Up the value chain they go

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

The year just concluded may end up being remembered as the one in which the final barriers to widespread cloud adoption fell. Finally convinced that concerns about security and stability were more perception than reality, chief information officers flocked to cloud platforms with …

Stormy weather: To stop cloud giants, some open-source software firms limit licenses

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

A heated debate has erupted in the open-source software world that’s pitting startups against cloud computing giants. The furor concerns, of all things, new licensing terms, which software companies are adopting to thwart what they believe is unfair competition from cloud providers …

Adobe beats earnings estimates, but acquisition costs weigh on forecast

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Adobe Systems Inc. today issued fiscal fourth-quarter results that initially baffled investors, who first bid shares up by 3 percent in after-hours trading but then sent them down more than 1.3 percent, wiping out gains made during regular trading hours. Update: …

Kubernetes’ sprawling ecosystem offers lots of choice – and risk

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

If your organization is ready to go all in on the Kubernetes orchestration manager and you’re looking for a way to package applications for easy deployment, you’ll probably gravitate to Helm, an open-source project incubating within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. But …

Dell to go public again as tracking-stock shareholders approve revised offer

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Shareholders in Dell Technologies Inc.’s tracking stock cleared the way for the parent company to go public again this morning as they approved a revised offer that gives them control of Dell’s VMware Inc. subsidiary and pays a rich reward to founder Michael Dell …

Looker raises $103 million to break out of crowded business intelligence field

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Looker Data Sciences Inc. today said it has closed a late-stage financing round of $103 million, bringing its total funding to $280.5 million. This latest round should take the company through to break-even cash flow, an event that Chief Executive Frank Bien (pictured) …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

MariaDB merges transactional, analytical databases and debuts first managed service

OneLogin snares $100M in late-stage funding for its integrated identity management platform

Fear of disruption is driving growth in big-data investments

Dell to go public again as tracking-stock shareholders approve revised offer

Looker raises $103 million to break out of crowded business intelligence field

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