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

Sumo Logic seeks to disrupt pricing for log analytics

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Sumo Logic Inc., a well-funded log management and analytics startup, has introduced a new pricing scheme and expanded data ingestion capabilities to its core product, which provides an analytics layer that companies can use to manage applications. The company said these enhancements, announced …

HPE launches community to fuel technology, market development for ‘The Machine’

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Seeking to build momentum behind the most ambitious project to emerge from its laboratories in a decade, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced the formation of a user group for technologists, developers and industry experts interested in programming for what it calls …

MapR pushes deeper into storage market with cloud-scale data store

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

In a crowded market for big-data platforms, vendors struggle to find differentiation points. Today’s announcement by MapR Technologies Inc. indicates that it has concluded that the data storage platform is one of them. That’s the apparent impetus behind MapR-XD, a cloud-scale data store that …

Netskope lands $100M in new funding for its cloud-native security platform

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Netskope Inc. is set to break out of the cloud security pack with a huge $100 million late-stage funding round announced today. The oversubscribed Series E round brings the company’s total funding to $231.4 million, an amount that will comfortably see it …

Adaptive Insights adds self-service features and targets software CFOs

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Corporate performance management software vendor Adaptive Insights Inc. has brushed up its Adaptive Suite in version 2017.2, adding self-service analytics, user-configurable time modeling and improved flexibility and scalability. The company is also rolling out its first vertical package, targeting financial executives at …

How to find the silver lining in the EU’s looming General Data Protection Regulation penalties

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

With less than a year remaining until the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation kicks in, the level of hyperventilation in the business world has reached epic proportions. An April study by Veritas reports that 86 percent of organizations worldwide are concerned that that …

LinkedIn buys sales productivity startup in a boost for its prospecting business

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

LinkedIn Corp. has acquired a small startup company that builds products that enhance sales and marketing productivity. Heighten Software Inc.‘s technology improves the sales process through better tracking, pipeline reporting and an intelligent notepad. It has only 10 employees but raised $7.4 …

VMware raises forecast, says digital transformation is lifting all tech boats, but investors yawn

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. beat the earnings and revenue forecasts it had revised upward in January and raised guidance for the rest of the year, but investors responded apathetically, bidding the stock down slightly in after-hours trading. The virtualization giant reported revenue of $1.74 billion …

HPE meets lowered expectations as execs insist worst is over, but investors not so sure

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The word “down” appears 21 times in Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s fiscal second-quarter earnings release, which gives you some indication of the challenges the company faces. HPE’s results were expected to be dismal, and the company surprised no one with earnings that met …

CoreOS touts portability in enhanced container-management platform

APPS By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

CoreOS Inc. is adding features to its Tectonic container management platform as it welcomes 800 open source and container fans to its CoreOS Fest conference this week in San Francisco. The enhancements enable greater portability of applications across hybrid clouds while giving …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Sumo Logic seeks to disrupt pricing for log analytics

HPE launches community to fuel technology, market development for ‘The Machine’

MapR pushes deeper into storage market with cloud-scale data store

Adaptive Insights adds self-service features and targets software CFOs

LinkedIn buys sales productivity startup in a boost for its prospecting business

VMware raises forecast, says digital transformation is lifting all tech boats, but investors yawn

HPE meets lowered expectations as execs insist worst is over, but investors not so sure

CoreOS touts portability in enhanced container-management platform

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