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

Analysis: Why a hot market couldn’t save SimpliVity from surrendering to HPE

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced Tuesday that it’s acquiring SimpliVity Corp. for $650 million, the surprisingly low price raised questions about whether the hot market for systems that combine computing, storage and networking into one box was cooling off. After all, the …

Businesses creep slowly toward cybersecurity maturity, HPE report says

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

The quality of business cybersecurity practices has improved slightly over the last two years – but only slightly, according to the latest Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. State of Security Operations report. HPE’s in-depth assessment of 137 security operations centers in 183 companies, …

Talend joins self-service party with new release of data integration platform

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Talend Inc. is joining the parade of data integration suppliers that are courting their own users as data stewards. The winter release of the company’s Talend Data Fabric integration platform, which is being announced today, includes features that Talend calls “self-service for …

Threat researcher sees no end to ransomware’s growth

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp.’s McAfee Labs raised some eyebrows in the security community in November with its prediction that “the volume and effectiveness of ransomware attacks will go down in the second half of 2017.” The security firm based its prediction on improvements in …

Cloud, digital business are forcing an enterprise security rethink

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

‘Tis the season for security surveys. Two more hit the mailboxes week, both validating the dramatic impact that cloud computing and digital transformation are having on corporate security organizations and budgets. A BMC Software Inc. survey of more than 300 chief information …

Velocidi raises $12M to help marketers make smarter ad choices

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Velocidi LLC is taking its first funding round under unusual circumstances: It doesn’t need the money to survive. Founded in 2010, the marketing analytics company has been profitable for the past year-and-a-half. It plans to use its new $12 million in series …

VMware report finds holistic approach to mobility pays off

APPS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Organizations that adopt a “digital workspace” plan, which encompasses a single set of user experiences, access controls and management tools across a range of devices and locations, report much more business, operational and financial benefits than those with less holistic mobility programs. …

DataGravity pitches virtual machine-aware security to stop ransomware

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Continuing its pivot into the security market following last year’ exit from the storage hardware business, DataGravity Inc. today is announcing DataGravity for Virtualization, a product suite that protects data in virtual machine environments. The company said it’s initially targeting the product at small-to-medium-sized …

Survey finds high satisfaction with enterprise big data initiatives

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Barely a year after Gartner Inc. predicted that 60 percent of big data projects won’t get past the pilot stage, a new survey from NewVantage Partners LLC paints a considerably rosier picture. The big data/business innovation advisory firm’s fifth annual Big Data …

‘Doxware’ adds malicious twist to ransomware threats

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

In Shut Up and Dance, a 2016 episode of the creepy Netflix series Black Mirror, an assortment of characters who are unknown to each other are thrown together in a macabre crime drama orchestrated by an unknown puppetmaster who threatens to reveal …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Analysis: Why a hot market couldn’t save SimpliVity from surrendering to HPE

Businesses creep slowly toward cybersecurity maturity, HPE report says

Talend joins self-service party with new release of data integration platform

Threat researcher sees no end to ransomware’s growth

Velocidi raises $12M to help marketers make smarter ad choices

VMware report finds holistic approach to mobility pays off

DataGravity pitches virtual machine-aware security to stop ransomware

Survey finds high satisfaction with enterprise big data initiatives

‘Doxware’ adds malicious twist to ransomware threats

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