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

Big data transformed the world. Now it’s getting down to business

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

When the data scientists at messaging software maker Synchronoss Technologies Inc. embarked upon a new project in 2014 to store, manage and extract insights from the massive amounts of data produced in their business, they thought they had found the answer to …

Cloudera simplifies data sharing in complex cloud analytics scenarios

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Cloudera Inc. is continuing its push into cloud analytics with enhancements to its Altus platform as a service that provide a shared data catalog and contextual consistency to data coming from multiple sources. The Palo Alto, California-based company said the new features …

MapR bids to take containers mainstream with support for Kubernetes and more

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. is stepping up support for containers with a new feature of its Converged Data Platform that provides for persistent storage and enables the use of stateful containerized applications in an automated, cross-platform environment. MapR Data Fabric for Kubernetes is …

Waterline targets data-discovery tool at organizations confronting GDPR deadline

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

With the May 25 implementation date for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation looming, Waterline Data Inc. today is unveiling the Waterline Data Discovery Platform, a data discovery tool that the company saids can dramatically accelerate the process of identifying and …

Dell reverse-merger report overshadows upbeat VMware earnings

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. beat forecasts for its fiscal fourth-quarter results, but the news did nothing to ease the beating the stock took today. That’s because of news earlier today that Dell Technologies Inc. had filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission …

Citing acceleration in demand, Salesforce.com beats earnings estimates

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

With competitors from Microsoft Corp. to Oracle Corp. training their guns on Salesforce.com Inc.’s core customer relationship management business, many market watchers have been wondering when the company’s torrid growth rate will slow. They’re still wondering. The CRM giant once again topped …

Cloudian raises $25M in cash, $100M in credit to fund shift to consumption-based pricing

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Object storage appliance maker Cloudian Inc. is joining the “composable infrastructure” trend with a combined round of investment and loan financing that will enable it to offer pay-by-the-drink licensing. Composable infrastructure is a cloud-inspired approach to deployment and licensing that virtualizes compute, …

TigerGraph adds multiple views, calling it a graph database first

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Graph database startup TigerGraph Inc. is coming out with version 2.0 of its platform today, offering what it says is a unique feature that enables multiple users to work on the same graph simultaneously. Graph databases are a type of NoSQL database …

Survey finds wide gap between practices of cloud leaders and laggards

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

It probably comes as no surprise that companies that are killing it in the cloud are more disciplined, strategic and accountable than those that aren’t. Now there’s a survey to prove it. The study of 550 senior managers at midsized and large …

HPE toasts forecasts with across-the-board sales and profit growth

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Call it Meg Whitman’s parting gift. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today reported stronger-than-expected revenue and profit per share in its fiscal first quarter, fueled in roughly equal parts by improved business execution, a strong sales backlog and acquisitions. Revenue rose 11.6 percent …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Big data transformed the world. Now it’s getting down to business

Cloudera simplifies data sharing in complex cloud analytics scenarios

MapR bids to take containers mainstream with support for Kubernetes and more

Dell reverse-merger report overshadows upbeat VMware earnings

Citing acceleration in demand, Salesforce.com beats earnings estimates

Cloudian raises $25M in cash, $100M in credit to fund shift to consumption-based pricing

TigerGraph adds multiple views, calling it a graph database first

HPE toasts forecasts with across-the-board sales and profit growth

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