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

Oracle’s revenue falls short as cloud strategy remains stuck in low gear

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

In recent analyst calls, Oracle Corp. executives have spoken with confidence about the company’s plans to overtake Amazon Web Services Inc. in the cloud infrastructure market. That kind of braggadocio was notably absent in today’s briefing call following the release of fiscal first-quarter …

The state of GDPR compliance is just dreadful, survey finds

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

In news that will probably surprise no one, a survey has found that few companies are complying with the requirements of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation, which went into effect more than three months ago. The research, which was …

MapR packages services to help customers move up the AI learning curve

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. today announced six new data science service packages aimed at helping customers get started with machine learning and artificial intelligence. The customized offerings apply MapR data scientists to specific customer problems and projects to demonstrate the use of advanced …

Hortonworks launches initiative to define unified hybrid cloud platform for big data

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Saying the boundaries between cloud and on-premises computing have blurred to the point that distinctions are no longer meaningful, Hortonworks Inc. today is launching an initiative to define a single hybrid architecture for multicloud environments. The company will initially be joined in …

Shares of cloud identity firm Okta soar as revenue blows away estimates

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Shares of cloud identity management provider Okta Inc. soared in after-hours trading as the company vaporized analyst revenue estimates and soundly beat earnings expectations. Second-quarter revenue jumped 57 percent from a year ago, to $94.6 million. That was more than 10 percent …

Dell earnings surge as company shakes off storage woes

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Dell Technologies Inc. this morning reported strong revenue and earnings growth in its second quarter and raised forecasts for the full fiscal year, calming concerns that the integration of EMC Corp. was distracting the company from its core businesses. Double-digit revenue …

Workday beats estimates, raises forecasts – and its stock falls

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Workday Inc. today continued a dubious string of quarters in which it beat Wall Street analysts estimates only to see its shares fall. The maker of cloud-based human capital management and enterprise financial software reported fiscal second-quarter revenues of $671.1 million, up nearly …

Google infrastructure chief Urs Hölzle: This is the future of software and the cloud

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Urs Hölzle knows a thing or two about the rapid evolution of data centers and the infrastructure behind them. As a Google Fellow and senior vice president of technical infrastructure, he has helped define that evolution over the past couple of decades …

Inside Experian’s journey to the virtual data center

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Credit reporting giant Experian Corp. is in the process of moving most of its data processing outside the four walls of the data center. In a recent conversation, Experian Chief Information Officer Barry Libenson explained the reasoning and the payoff. This is …

HPE recovery continues with strong results in high-growth markets

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Things are up and to the right again at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. as the big computing vendor reported fiscal third-quarter results that easily beat analyst estimates and its own forecasts. Net revenue rose 4 percent, to $7.8 billion, from the prior-year period, …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Oracle’s revenue falls short as cloud strategy remains stuck in low gear

The state of GDPR compliance is just dreadful, survey finds

MapR packages services to help customers move up the AI learning curve

Hortonworks launches initiative to define unified hybrid cloud platform for big data

Dell earnings surge as company shakes off storage woes

Workday beats estimates, raises forecasts – and its stock falls

HPE recovery continues with strong results in high-growth markets

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