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

Talend shares temporarily tank as an early investor cashes in

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Investors appeared to take Talend SA’s narrow earnings miss Thursday uncharacteristically hard, but it turns out the reason had little to do with its earnings report. The data integration company reported a first-quarter loss of 19 cents per share, a penny worse …

Solid earnings report underlines Hortonworks’ stability, but stock falls

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Hortonworks Inc. beat Wall Street expectations on both revenues and profits in its first quarter and guided expectations higher for both its current quarter and the full year. Revenue jumped 41 percent from a year ago, to $79.1 million, ahead of analysts’ …

ThoughtSpot snags $145M in bid to challenge data analytics heavyweights

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

ThoughtSpot Inc. took a big step forward in its bid to shake up the data analytics market with the closing of an oversubscribed $145 million Series D funding round announced today. The company has now raised $306 million in its bid to challenge …

Talend takes streaming integration to the cloud with free AWS app

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Data integration company Talend SA is quickening its march to the cloud with a free application for use in Amazon Web Services Inc. environments. Talend Data Streams is intended to simplify and speed the ingestion of large volumes of real-time data on a self-service basis. …

IBM, Red Hat tighten private cloud alliance with improved container support

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is expanding its commitment to move large swaths of its software portfolio to application containers while tightening its relationship with Red Hat Inc. In an announcement to be made at Red Hat Summit Tuesday, IBM said it will extend its recently …

Tableau misses profit forecast, but rocketing subscription sales cheer investors

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Tableau Software Inc. today provided the strongest evidence yet that its shift from a software license model to subscription pricing is bearing fruit. Its first-quarter revenue of $224 million beat Wall Street’s estimates as well as the company’s own guidance, sending shares …

SnapLogic’s new cloud-based data integration platform will even manage the servers for you

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Data integration vendor SnapLogic Inc. is taking its platform to the cloud with an extension that nontechnical users can employ to create complex data processes. Those processes can run on cloud-based Apache Hadoop platforms such as Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Elastic MapReduce, Microsoft Corp.’s HDInsight and Google …

Instart Logic snags top VMware exec as CEO to push growth agenda

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Instart Logic Inc., a richly funded startup that’s trying to disrupt the content delivery industry, has appointed a former top VMware Inc. executive as its chief executive. Sumit Dhawan took the reins today, promising to accelerate the company’s growth and awareness of …

VMware outlines plan to take on-premises, remote and cloud infrastructure all virtual

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. is using this week’s Dell Technologies World 2018 conference in Las Vegas this week to outline a vision for end-to-end networking that’s long on promise and short on specifics. The company is also cozying up to Microsoft Corp. with improved …

Finally comfy in the cloud? Get ready for another jolt: serverless computing

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Just when you thought you had finally wrapped your brain around cloud computing, another revolutionary concept is on the way. “Serverless computing,” as it’s called, promises to deliver unprecedented improvements in speed, simplicity and cost that may upend traditional assumptions about how …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Talend shares temporarily tank as an early investor cashes in

Solid earnings report underlines Hortonworks’ stability, but stock falls

ThoughtSpot snags $145M in bid to challenge data analytics heavyweights

Talend takes streaming integration to the cloud with free AWS app

IBM, Red Hat tighten private cloud alliance with improved container support

Tableau misses profit forecast, but rocketing subscription sales cheer investors

SnapLogic’s new cloud-based data integration platform will even manage the servers for you

Instart Logic snags top VMware exec as CEO to push growth agenda

VMware outlines plan to take on-premises, remote and cloud infrastructure all virtual

Finally comfy in the cloud? Get ready for another jolt: serverless computing

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