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

Open Container Initiative releases first fruits of its standard-building labors

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

More than two years in the making – a blink of an eye in standards-setting time – the Open Container Initiative version 1.0 is ready. The standard covers runtime and image specifications for containers, which define container lifecycles and image formats, respectively. Those …

Oracle aims to one-up Microsoft with expanded Cloud at Customer service

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. is wasting no time returning fire at Microsoft Corp.’s announcement last week of the availability of its Azure Stack on-premises cloud offering. The database and business software giant today is expanding the breadth of services it will deliver via its similar …

Dremio tackles self-service analytics with Apache Arrow-based data abstraction engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

After two years in stealth mode, Dremio Corp. is entering the red-hot self-service data analytics market today with an open-source platform based on the Apache Arrow distributed query engine. Dremio said it eliminates the need for cumbersome tasks and technologies such as extract/transform/load …

How machine learning will spark a revolution in insurance

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Siddhartha Dalal got his introduction to probabilistic analysis in the wake of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Dalal’s research on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences found that NASA’s estimates of a 0.5 percent risk of the o-ring gasket failure …

Startup Edgewise Networks takes security to the application level

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Edgewise Networks has emerged from stealth mode with an approach to network security that is says fixes the biggest problem in firewalls: their reliance on IP addresses, the basic identifier for computing devices. Edgewise’s approach instead works at the application layer, allowing …

Chief data officers bust out of the shadows onto the corporate front lines

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Chief data officers are rapidly moving out of the shadows of back-office data quality and governance tasks and onto the front lines of corporate enterprise computing strategy. That became more obvious Thursday with the release of new Gartner Inc. research as well …

Microsoft says its Azure Stack on-premises cloud is finally ready to ship

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

More than two years after it was announced, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Stack is ready to ship. Microsoft has called the on-premises version of its cloud stack its secret weapon against Amazon Web Services Inc. because it leverages Microsoft’s legacy data center customer …

Moving to the cloud is way harder than it looks. Here’s how five pioneers did it

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

When Salesforce.com Inc. sent Domtar Corp.’s Personal Care Division, a manufacturer of absorbent hygiene products, a request to upgrade software drivers that the customer relationship management supplier was using for connectivity, the process seemed like a simple one. But upon upgrading, Domtar …

Comparison shopping for data centers? There’s an app for that

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Few people have much experience setting up a data center, which means that the first time they do it, the process is often tortuous and fraught with error. There are so many moving parts. Space needs to be purchased or leased, equipment …

Tibco colors in the edges with acquisition of microservices developer

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Data integration giant Tibco Software Inc. is boosting its edge computing strategy with the acquisition of Nanoscale Inc., a provider of productivity tools for creating microservices, small pieces of software code that can be combined into various applications. Pricing wasn’t disclosed. Tibco said the Reston, Virginia-based company’s …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Open Container Initiative releases first fruits of its standard-building labors

Dremio tackles self-service analytics with Apache Arrow-based data abstraction engine

How machine learning will spark a revolution in insurance

Startup Edgewise Networks takes security to the application level

Chief data officers bust out of the shadows onto the corporate front lines

Microsoft says its Azure Stack on-premises cloud is finally ready to ship

Comparison shopping for data centers? There’s an app for that

Tibco colors in the edges with acquisition of microservices developer

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