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 guns for Oracle with latest release of open-source database engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

MariaDB Corp. is openly targeting database kingpin Oracle Corp., releasing a new version of its open-source database today with features that have previously been available only in expensive proprietary products. The company said MariaDB TX 3.0 is the first enterprise open-source database to provide …

Okta ‘freemium’ offer makes its authentication service available to anyone

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Identity management software provider Okta Inc. is giving developers a free way to access its authentication service by exposing an application program interface they can use to layer security controls onto a single application automatically. The company also said today that it’s …

HPE’s fourth straight growth quarter signals turnaround, but investors aren’t buying it yet

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

In a boost to optimism that Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co.’s worst days are behind it, the company topped analysts’ estimates and its own guidance in its first quarter under new Chief Executive Antonio Neri and also raised its full-year revenue outlook. But thanks to a …

Cloudera courts data scientists with self-service workbench and collaboration features

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Cloudera Inc. is appealing to the hearts and minds of data scientists and data engineers with a series of new features and products intended to make them more organized and productive. The software the big-data company introduced today at the Strata conference in …

Pure Storage bests expectations, but stock tanks on weaker forecast

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Pure Storage Inc. today beat the high end of its revenue forecast for its fiscal first quarter but issued guidance that appeared to disappoint growth-hungry investors. The flash storage maker’s revenue rose 40 percent, to $255.9 million, over the same quarter a …

Boston startup aims to revolutionize public safety by tapping into IoT devices

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

The chaos that engulfs the scene of a mass shooting is often the gunman’s best friend. First responders lose precious minutes trying to determine the location of the shooter. In the scramble to get out the doors, some people tragically run into …

LinkedIn quickens pace of Sales Navigator enhancements

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn subsidiary is picking up the pace of enhancements to its Sales Navigator lead development and nurturing software with the second set of major enhancements in less than four months. In addition, the company today added five new vendors to the …

MarkLogic slips data integration features into latest NoSQL release

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

MarkLogic Corp. is strengthening data integration features, enhancing security and improving workload management capabilities via support for containers in the first major new release of its namesake NoSQL database management system since the debut of version 9.0 two years ago. The company, …

As GDPR deadline looms, executives turn positive on its potential

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Fear and loathing about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is apparently giving way to cautious optimism as organizations prepare for the new laws to take effect a week from Friday. A new IBM Corp. survey released today finds that executive opinions toward …

Surprise! Converged systems are now cheaper to buy and run than hand-rolled solutions

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Information technology organizations should abandon their traditional “roll your own” practices in favor of converged and hyperconverged systems from a handful of providers for transaction-intensive workloads. That’s the conclusion of a new cost-of-ownership report and detailed analysis by Wikibon, a sister company of SiliconANGLE. Wikibon …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

MariaDB guns for Oracle with latest release of open-source database engine

Okta ‘freemium’ offer makes its authentication service available to anyone

HPE’s fourth straight growth quarter signals turnaround, but investors aren’t buying it yet

Cloudera courts data scientists with self-service workbench and collaboration features

Pure Storage bests expectations, but stock tanks on weaker forecast

Boston startup aims to revolutionize public safety by tapping into IoT devices

MarkLogic slips data integration features into latest NoSQL release

As GDPR deadline looms, executives turn positive on its potential

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