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

Report: Risk management pros say their companies aren’t ready for the Internet of Things

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Organizations are increasingly worried about the security risks of the Internet of Things, but have a few action plans for dealing with them, according to a new report by the Ponemon Institute and the Shared Assessments Program, an industry-standard body focused on …

Splunk beats earnings estimates, but slowdown in customer growth tugs on shares

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Splunk Inc. beat analyst revenue and earnings-per-share estimates in its first fiscal quarter and raised its outlook for the full year, but it wasn’t good enough for investors. A slowdown in the company’s overall growth rate and a small decline in new-customer growth …

Controversial security unicorn Tanium adds $100 million to its war chest

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Tanium Inc., the highly valued and highly controversial security software company, is selling $100 million of common stock in an apparent bid to enable early investors to cash in some of their shares. The new funding round is being led by TPG …

Splash! Cloudera, DataStax and IBM all jump into big data as a service pool

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The red-hot concept of big data as a service is getting a boost from no less than three major companies this week as Cloudera Inc., DataStax Inc. and IBM Corp. all roll out new offerings. Cloudera today will introduce Cloudera Altus, a …

Couchbase completes ‘customer engagement’ repositioning with latest database

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Couchbase Inc. is continuing its push to position its NoSQL database as a platform for customer engagement with the announcement of version 5.0 today. Continuing an evolution it began earlier this year, the company said its rebranded “engagement database” taps into dynamic …

GoodData embeds analytics, machine learning in applications and workflows

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Business analytics-at-scale provider GoodData Corp. is releasing new technology that enables customers to embed analytics and machine learning capabilities into existing applications and workflows. The company is positioning the new features as a “change in strategy” following an earlier repositioning around analytics …

Pentaho bids to bring Apache Spark to the masses

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Data integration and analytics supplier Pentaho, a subsidiary of Hitachi Group Co., is throwing its arms around Apache Spark in the new release of its Pentaho Business Analytics product. Pentaho said that with the 7.1 version, it’s the first data integration provider to offer …

Salesforce.com beats estimates and raises forecast, says it’s outgrowing all competitors

APPS By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Salesforce.com Inc. today beat earnings estimates and raised its full-year revenue guidance for the second time in two quarters. The leading provider of customer relationship management software reported a net loss of $9.2 million on revenue of $2.39 billion for its fiscal …

Cisco sales continue to fall as shift to software takes its toll

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Cisco Systems Inc. logged its sixth straight quarter of revenue declines but met analyst expectations for both revenue and earnings per share. The company also said it will cut 1,100 more jobs on top of the 5,500 it eliminated last August. The company …

Industrial IoT revs up at big renewable energy provider

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The internet of things is headed for a prime-time test as Invenergy LLC, North America’s largest independent, privately held renewable energy provider. It has signed on to deploy General Electric Co.’s Asset Performance Management reliability management software on 13 turbines at six gas-operated …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Report: Risk management pros say their companies aren’t ready for the Internet of Things

Splunk beats earnings estimates, but slowdown in customer growth tugs on shares

Controversial security unicorn Tanium adds $100 million to its war chest

Splash! Cloudera, DataStax and IBM all jump into big data as a service pool

Couchbase completes ‘customer engagement’ repositioning with latest database

GoodData embeds analytics, machine learning in applications and workflows

Pentaho bids to bring Apache Spark to the masses

Salesforce.com beats estimates and raises forecast, says it’s outgrowing all competitors

Cisco sales continue to fall as shift to software takes its toll

Industrial IoT revs up at big renewable energy provider

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