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

How a big idea changed the culture of the world’s largest networking company

APPS By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Sometimes, one person can change the culture of an entire corporate giant. At Cisco Systems Inc., that person is Susie Wee (pictured), vice president and chief technology officer of DevNet Innovations, the company’s developer program. From a standing start three years ago, …

Datos IO polishes data protection tools for hybrid IT environments

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Datos IO Inc. is rolling out what it calls a major new release of its scale-out data protection software for distributed database environments. RecoverX 2.0 includes new capabilities that ease the task of migrating in protecting data in mixed on-premises and cloud …

The great open-source software debate: Does this model have a future?

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

It sounds like a good idea in concept: Outsource costly software development and testing operations to a community of skilled developers who work for free. Then take the fruits of their labors and package it up with other add-ons and extensions – …

Intel, Microsoft miss estimates, but growth businesses remain strong

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Two giants of the personal computer era slightly underwhelmed investors with earnings reports today but indicated that their comeback plans are making steady progress. Microsoft Corp. beat earnings estimates for its third fiscal quarter on a 94 percent surge in its Azure …

Marketing tech unicorn Zeta raises $140 million, eyes more acquisitions

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Zeta Interactive Corp., which started as a recruiter of college applicants, nearly imploded when Congress withdrew student loan funding and reinvented itself as a marketing technology company, raised $140 million in a series F financing round that brings its total funding to …

Self-programming machines will usher in the third age of computing

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Get ready for a future in which machines program themselves, the cloud is atomized into a network of intelligent devices and data ownership is a source of competitive advantage. That’s the world James Kobielus envisions as he assumes his new role as …

One in five execs fears new EU privacy rules could drive them out of business

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Senior executives at 86 percent of organizations worldwide are concerned that failure to adhere to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation rules could have a major negative impact on their business. Nearly 20 percent said the GDPR rules, which go into effect on …

Study finds 20 percent of sensitive files are open for any employee to see

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

An audit of 80 organizations by data protection vendor Varonis Systems Inc. found that 20 percent of their sensitive files were sitting out in the open for any employee to access. Varonis says the results underscore the difficulties many organizations encounter in applying file- and folder-level …

SAP sees strong cloud growth and surprising resilience in software license sales

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

SAP SE narrowly missed analysts’ profit estimates in the first quarter, but the rest of its news was sufficiently good that investors bid the stock up slightly. New cloud bookings — which reflects cloud-related orders from new customers and incremental cloud business …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

How a big idea changed the culture of the world’s largest networking company

Datos IO polishes data protection tools for hybrid IT environments

The great open-source software debate: Does this model have a future?

Marketing tech unicorn Zeta raises $140 million, eyes more acquisitions

Self-programming machines will usher in the third age of computing

Study finds 20 percent of sensitive files are open for any employee to see

SAP sees strong cloud growth and surprising resilience in software license sales

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