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

Syncsort changes hands again in acquisition/merger deal

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Less than two years after selling out to Clearlake Capital Group L.P. and ending its 47-year run as an independent company, Syncsort Inc. is being sold again. Private equity firm Centerbridge Partners L.P. said it will acquire the big data and mainframe …

Wikibon report questions ‘breakthrough technology’ claims for 3D Xpoint memory chips

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Ears must be burning at chip giants Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. in the wake of a new report by Wikibon Chief Technology Officer David Floyer (pictured) that dismantles the grandiose claims the two companies have been making about their jointly …

AppDynamics takes aim at software container performance with Docker monitor

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Asserting that slow performance is a major barrier to the acceptance of applications that can run in software containers, AppDynamics Inc. is rolling out a service to monitor Docker Inc. containers running microservices. Microservices iQ Integrated Docker Monitoring enables administrators to view …

Rising in-memory database tide floats Kinetica to $50 million funding round

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Kinetica Db Inc. today said it has closed a $50 million series A financing round, nearly quintupling its total venture capital investment in one fell swoop. The in-memory relational database maker, which is distinctive for its use of graphics processing units to accelerate …

Aviatrix inks deals with Nutanix, Cisco to simplify hybrid cloud networking

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Aviatrix Systems Inc. is joining with Nutanix Inc. on a product that enables enterprises to automate connectivity between hyperconverged private cloud environments and popular public clouds. Separately, the company said its Aviatrix Cloud Interconnect software will be sold with Cisco Systems Inc. as …

Nutanix brings its technology stack to the cloud, including Google’s

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

“Hybrid cloud” is a way for companies to use both public cloud computing services and private cloud services in their own data centers. Nutanix Inc. thinks the concept needs a reboot. To help do that, Nutanix today is bringing its hyperconverged infrastructure, …

Selling ‘outcomes’: GE shows that old rules don’t apply to digital business

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

A cardinal rule of sales is never to guarantee results. But General Electric Co. is defying that conventional wisdom with a new approach to engaging industrial customers that earns GE a premium when it can demonstrably save customers money. The “outcome as …

IBM nudges DB2 toward hybrid analytical role

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is refreshing its 34-year-old DB2 relational database management system with features that mirror those of the increasingly popular breed of hybrid transactional/analytical databases, while at the same time making it easier for developers to get started via a community edition …

IBM gives Apache Atlas a General Data Protection Regulation boost

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is utilizing Apache Atlas data governance and metadata framework as a kind of open source operating system to help customers comply with the European Union’s forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation, perhaps better-known as GDPR The moves include new data governance tools, the opening …

Red Hat’s comeback rolls on, thanks to a surging application development business

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. blew past consensus estimates on both revenue and profits for its first fiscal quarter of 2018 on a surge in its application development-related business, leading it to raise revenue and earnings estimates for the rest of the year. After-hours …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Syncsort changes hands again in acquisition/merger deal

Wikibon report questions ‘breakthrough technology’ claims for 3D Xpoint memory chips

AppDynamics takes aim at software container performance with Docker monitor

Rising in-memory database tide floats Kinetica to $50 million funding round

Aviatrix inks deals with Nutanix, Cisco to simplify hybrid cloud networking

Nutanix brings its technology stack to the cloud, including Google’s

Selling ‘outcomes’: GE shows that old rules don’t apply to digital business

IBM nudges DB2 toward hybrid analytical role

IBM gives Apache Atlas a General Data Protection Regulation boost

Red Hat’s comeback rolls on, thanks to a surging application development business

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