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

CA boosts compliance, security features in mainframe monitoring tools

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

In the wake of the biggest global ransomware scare ever to hit the Internet, CA Technologies Inc. is introducing new data protection enhancements to two of its security management offerings. The software company said the additions to its CA Data Content Discovery and CA Compliance Event …

HPE’s ‘The Machine’ draws closer to reality with 160-terabyte single-memory prototype

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. says its long-promised project to reinvent the computer is inching ever closer to completion with the announcement of what it calls the world’s largest single-memory computer, a creation also known as The Machine. A new prototype unveiled today …

Puppet brings orchestration to the masses

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

DevOps and information technology automation software provide Puppet Inc. has announced what it calls its most significant set of product enhancements in years, building orchestration capabilities into an enhanced user interface and improving visibility into the operating environment in which software packages …

In a frothy market, Talend CEO sticks to fundamentals

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Ten months into his tenure as head of a public company, Talend Inc.’s Mike Tuchen (pictured) is establishing himself as one of Silicon Valley’s most accessible chief executives. So when he invited me to call the day after his company on Thursday announced …

Talend’s profit falls short, but it issues a bullish forecast

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Data integration company Talend SA beat revenue expectations for the first fiscal quarter of 2017, but missed on earnings per share, sending its stock down about 2 percent in after-hours trading. Management issued an upbeat forecast, however, saying all the metrics that …

Elasticsearch engine gets machine learning capabilities

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Elasticsearch Global BV, which does business as Elastic, has added adding machine learning capabilities to its Elastic Stack collection of open source products for searching large databases of unstructured information. The company picked up the technology via its recent acquisition of Prelert Inc., …

MariaDB secures $27M from European investors to build open-source database franchise

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Open source database vendor MariaDB Corp. said it raised €25 million (approximately $27 million) from the European Investment Bank under the European Fund for Strategic Investments, a European Commission project that funnels money to growing businesses in the region. The funding, which is …

Big tech mergers never work. Is Michael Dell bucking the odds with EMC?

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

When Dell Inc.’s blockbuster $67 billion purchase of EMC Corp. closed last fall, it was billed as a perfect marriage. Unlike many big acquisitions, there was little overlap in product lines. The business models were complementary too. EMC targeted high-end customers with …

Open-source software startups still struggling to reach escape velocity

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Part 2 of a two-part series on the challenges of making money from open-source software. Part 1 ran earlier this week. When Oracle Corp. acquired Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010, it picked up a bit of a hot potato: an open-source database. The …

Big data firm Hortonworks delights investors with 35 percent revenue growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Big data company Hortonworks Inc. said first-quarter revenue of $56 million rose 35 percent from a year ago with stronger margins and a narrower operating loss. The sales results handily beat analyst consensus estimates of between $52 million and $53 million for …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

CA boosts compliance, security features in mainframe monitoring tools

HPE’s ‘The Machine’ draws closer to reality with 160-terabyte single-memory prototype

Puppet brings orchestration to the masses

In a frothy market, Talend CEO sticks to fundamentals

Talend’s profit falls short, but it issues a bullish forecast

Elasticsearch engine gets machine learning capabilities

MariaDB secures $27M from European investors to build open-source database franchise

Big tech mergers never work. Is Michael Dell bucking the odds with EMC?

Open-source software startups still struggling to reach escape velocity

Big data firm Hortonworks delights investors with 35 percent revenue growth

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