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

Apache Kafka gets ‘exactly-once’ message delivery – and that’s a big deal

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Apache Kafka has a reputation as a lightweight, fast and highly scalable message broker, which passes data between applications. But one feature has frustrated users over the five years since the platform graduated from its incubation period at LinkedIn Corp.: It was impossible …

Splunk shares jump as it vaporizes forecasts with blowout earnings

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Splunk Inc. blew past second-quarter revenue forecasts with a 32 percent jump in sales today, delighting investors who bid the operational intelligence company’s shares up 10 percent in immediate after-hours trading. Quarterly revenues of $280 million outdistanced consensus estimates by nearly 5 percent. …

M-Files acquires Apprento to handle natural-language queries of enterprise content

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Document management firm M-Files Corp. Tuesday said it has acquired Apprento Inc., a New Brunswick-based developer of a natural language query engine that works on unstructured text, for an undisclosed amount. Apprento said its analytical engine understands both the semantics and the …

With 26 percent revenue growth, Salesforce tops $10B annual run rate

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Salesforce.com Inc. today beat quarterly sales and earnings estimates, raised its forecast for the third straight quarter and said it surpassed the $10 billion annual revenue run rate milestone faster than any enterprise software company in history. But investors apparently wanted more …

Intel touts 40 percent performance boost in eighth-generation processors

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. is introducing what it calls the eighth generation of its Core processors today, claiming a 40 percent performance improvement over previous versions, but reviewers are saying the new chips are mainly heated-up versions of their predecessors. Intel has achieved the …

Klaxoon uses gamification to make meetings fun – well, almost

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

A French company with a funny name is rolling onto U.S. shores with a gamified approach to relieving one of the most painful elements of the typical business day: meetings. Klaxoon SAS launched in 2014 but only set up its U.S. operations in …

Chips in space: HPE supercomputer prepares for liftoff

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

When the SpaceX-12 rocket, developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, next week en route to the International Space Station National Lab, it’ll carry a new passenger: an Apollo 40 high-performance computer by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. specifically for …

Talend CEO on IPO anniversary: ‘I’m happy with our progress’

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Mike Tuchen called from Vail, Colorado, where he’s attending the Pacific Crest Global Technology Leadership Forum. The chief executive of Talend Inc. estimates that it’s his sixth investment conference this year, but that’s not unusual for the head of a company that …

Cloud computing is consolidating, raising the risk of customer lock-in

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Barely a decade into the cloud revolution, consolidation is already setting in, and the implications for customers aren’t good. That’s according to a new report from Forrester Research Inc. The three areas of greatest consolidation are currently in the base-level computing and storage known …

Quantum leap: Obstacles remain, but a revolution in computing is almost here

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Salesman Tom is about to hit the road for a monthlong journey to visit customers and sales prospects, a trip that will take him to 50 destinations across the United States. Tom needs to optimize the trip by three priorities. He must …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Apache Kafka gets ‘exactly-once’ message delivery – and that’s a big deal

Splunk shares jump as it vaporizes forecasts with blowout earnings

M-Files acquires Apprento to handle natural-language queries of enterprise content

With 26 percent revenue growth, Salesforce tops $10B annual run rate

Intel touts 40 percent performance boost in eighth-generation processors

Klaxoon uses gamification to make meetings fun – well, almost

Chips in space: HPE supercomputer prepares for liftoff

Talend CEO on IPO anniversary: ‘I’m happy with our progress’

Quantum leap: Obstacles remain, but a revolution in computing is almost here

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