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

MapR CEO resigns abruptly, replaced by big-data company’s founder

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. has removed Chief Executive Matt Mills (pictured, right) and replaced him with founder and Executive Chairman John Schroeder (left). The move comes less than two years after Mills, a veteran of Oracle Corp. was appointed CEO with considerable fanfare …

Survey finds IT disaster recovery practices still rely on old technologies

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Digital transformation is high on the agenda for many organizations today, but it turns out a lot of them are doing things the same old way when it comes to keeping the lights on and the engines running. A joint survey of …

‘Digital workplace’ firm Igloo Software beats winter’s chill with $47M infusion

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The average temperature was 9 degrees last week in Kitchener, Ontario, but the offices of Igloo Inc. were warmed by a infusion of $47 million in new funding, the closing of which was announced today. The funding was led by Frontier Capital, …

Veritas taps new CEO, saying two-year turnaround is complete

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Veritas Technologies LLC, which has gone through a 12-year roller coaster ride as a public company, subsidiary of Symantec Corp., a spinoff and now a private company again, is changing its top leadership. The company today said Greg Hughes (pictured) will become …

How those chip flaws could accelerate the shift to cloud computing

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The nearly ubiquitous “Meltdown” and “Spectre” security vulnerabilities that have dominated tech news headlines this week could be a ray of sunshine to one group of vendors: cloud computing providers. Many information technology organizations are in chaos right now trying to determine …

That convenient browser autofill feature could be stealing your personal information

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The autofill feature that comes with your browser could be compromising your security and opening the door to identity theft, according to researchers at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. The culprit is what researchers Gunes Acar, Steven Englehardt and Arvind …

Survey: Fear of disruption drives executives’ embrace of big-data projects

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Top executives are doing more than just paying lip service to the idea that data is a strategic asset, but whether they’re doing so out of ambition or fear is an open question. That’s according to the sixth annual study of 60 senior …

Security forecast: hot, with a possibility of severe storms

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

It was another year of frustration for enterprise security organizations as attackers continued to penetrate high-profile organizations and steal massive amounts of personal information, headlined by the 143 million records pilfered in the Equifax Inc. breach. Big data analytics and machine learning …

Wait for it: the most overhyped technologies of 2017

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

As we waited to hop into our self-driving car where we could lean back, put on a headset and enjoy some virtual reality entertainment, it occurred to us that there might be some flaws in the blockchain-based service we’d used to order …

Big winners of 2017: The tech gets smarter and the rich get richer

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

In a year in which the Nasdaq hit an all-time high, venture capital dollars flowed like cheap champagne and the majority of earnings surprises were on the upside, there were plenty of winners. These companies and technologies stood out for the scope of their …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

MapR CEO resigns abruptly, replaced by big-data company’s founder

Survey finds IT disaster recovery practices still rely on old technologies

‘Digital workplace’ firm Igloo Software beats winter’s chill with $47M infusion

Veritas taps new CEO, saying two-year turnaround is complete

How those chip flaws could accelerate the shift to cloud computing

That convenient browser autofill feature could be stealing your personal information

Survey: Fear of disruption drives executives’ embrace of big-data projects

Wait for it: the most overhyped technologies of 2017

Big winners of 2017: The tech gets smarter and the rich get richer

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