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

IBM courts enterprise hybrid cloud business with 18 new availability zones

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Continuing its bid to capture a greater share of the market for enterprise hybrid clouds, IBM Corp. today announced the launch of 18 new “availability zones” for its Enterprise Cloud across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Availability zones are isolated regions within …

Guns or hammers? Big-data firms struggle with their role in responsible data use

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Looker Inc.’s business intelligence software can be used to deploy education resources more effectively in inner-city neighborhoods, identify hot spots of violent crime and pinpoint income inequalities in the workforce. It can also be used for racial profiling, political gerrymandering and identifying …

Cloudera beats the Street, but weak outlook fails to excite wary investors

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Cloudera Inc. beat revenue and earnings expectations for its fiscal 2019 first quarter, but failed to raise full-year expectations that it lowered in April, triggering a 40 percent drop in its stock price that day. It wasn’t nearly this bad this time, …

SAP and IBM marry their cloud services in a partnership aimed at private cloud deployments

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. and SAP SE today announced plans to launch an edition of the SAP Cloud Platform running on the IBM Cloud for private cloud deployments. The companies said the collaboration will help clients in regulated industries build new applications on the …

Instana extends application monitor to AWS Lambda serverless computing platform

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Instana Inc., developer of an artificial intelligence-based monitoring tool for containerized microservice-based applications, has extended its ready to a broad range of Amazon Web Services Inc. products, including the Lambda serverless computing platform. Serverless computing abstracts information technology infrastructure away from applications, enabling …

Dell posts impressive revenue gains as storage business returns to growth

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Dell Technologies Inc.’s revenue rose more than expected in its fiscal first quarter, sparking a 3 percent rise in its stock price in early trading today. Although the shares fell back to rise just a fraction of a point by the end …

VMware earnings impress as packaged and international sales drive growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc.’s strategy shift from being a seller of individual virtualization products to becoming a more pervasive provider of packaged solutions shows no sign of slowing down. The company today reported fiscal first-quarter revenues of $2.01 billion, up 14 percent year-over-year and …

Maxta adds Red Hat support to ease container migration from VMware to OpenShift

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Hyperconverged infrastructure maker Maxta Inc. will support Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift Container Platform, giving users who want to migrate from VMware Inc. vSphere virtualized environment to Red Hat the ability to do so without disrupting their container environment. Containers are lightweight, self-contained environments that enable applications …

Salesforce crushes earnings estimates as diversification strategy pays dividends

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

The 2016 forecast by Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Marc Benioff (pictured) that his company would reach $20 billion in annual revenues by 2020 struck many people as pretty audacious at the time. Not anymore. With another blowout quarter under its belt and no …

Splunk beats earnings forecast, but stock sags on slower customer growth

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Splunk Inc. handily swept past Wall Street estimates on both revenue and profit in its fiscal first quarter, but a slowdown in new-customer acquisition didn’t sit well with investors, who knocked shares back more than 2 percent in after-hours trading. Revenue jumped …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

IBM courts enterprise hybrid cloud business with 18 new availability zones

Guns or hammers? Big-data firms struggle with their role in responsible data use

Cloudera beats the Street, but weak outlook fails to excite wary investors

SAP and IBM marry their cloud services in a partnership aimed at private cloud deployments

Instana extends application monitor to AWS Lambda serverless computing platform

Dell posts impressive revenue gains as storage business returns to growth

VMware earnings impress as packaged and international sales drive growth

Maxta adds Red Hat support to ease container migration from VMware to OpenShift

Salesforce crushes earnings estimates as diversification strategy pays dividends

Splunk beats earnings forecast, but stock sags on slower customer growth

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