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

HPE claims breakthrough in optical microprocessing

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city? It sounds like a problem that was tailor-made for computers to …

Survey finds enterprises gearing up for IoT on a grand scale

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

The Internet of Things may still be on the launchpad at many organizations, but that isn’t stopping them from preparing for blastoff. New data from 451 Research LLC reveals that 71 percent of nearly 1,000 enterprises surveyed are gathering data for IoT …

How the Internet of Things slashed one fleet owner’s accident costs

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

The Internet of Things may still be mostly in incubation, but in some industries it’s already mainstream. One of those is vehicle fleet management. Operators have been using telematics and computerized engine diagnostics for years to squeeze more life out of cars …

Elastic infrastructure won’t meet digital business demands; think ‘plastic’ instead, analyst says

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

As information technology organizations are increasingly called upon to contribute to the bottom line through digital business, underlying infrastructure must evolve from one that supports known workloads to one that can handle unpredictable workloads reliably and at scale. That’s the conclusion of …

Predictions 2017: Trump ♥️ tech, containers take over, Microsoft buys Red Hat

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

As if 2016 weren’t volatile enough for the technology industry, the coming year is likely to be even more, shall we say, interesting, thanks to everything from a very unpredictable new U.S. president to a confluence of major trends ranging from artificial …

Anomaly detection keeps ad network humming during busy holiday season

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

The holiday season is a peak time for e-commerce transactions, but also for the advertising that fuels them. Downtime or slowdowns can be disastrous for companies trying to put forth the latest promotions through online advertising, but the complexity of ad networks …

Segment adds Google BigQuery to lineup of supported cloud data warehouses

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Data collection and integration company Segment.io Inc. has added Google’s BigQuery to its lineup of data warehousing platforms, joining Postgres and Amazon Web Services’ Redshift. The company said the addition of BigQuery as a processing engine gives customers an important new option …

Postman Pro automates API testing for development teams

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Having recently scored $7 million in venture financing to develop its software for building, testing and documenting application programming interfaces, Postdot Technologies Inc. is wasting no time in announcing a major update to its Postman product. Called Postman Cloud during its beta …

25-year-old software firm you’ve never heard of stakes future on hyper-convergence – and Boston

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Most information technology startups that come into the U.S. market head by default for Silicon Valley, so Comtrade Software turned some heads this fall when it chose to plant its flag in Boston. But to hear Simon Taylor – Comtrade Software’s 37-year-old president …

Conversica lands $34M to bring AI to sales lead nurturing

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence-based sales automation company Conversica Inc. today said it has raised $34 million in a Series B funding round to tackle one of the most common problems sales organizations face: lack of follow-up. The company has built an automated agent that attends to …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

HPE claims breakthrough in optical microprocessing

Survey finds enterprises gearing up for IoT on a grand scale

How the Internet of Things slashed one fleet owner’s accident costs

Elastic infrastructure won’t meet digital business demands; think ‘plastic’ instead, analyst says

Predictions 2017: Trump ♥️ tech, containers take over, Microsoft buys Red Hat

Anomaly detection keeps ad network humming during busy holiday season

Segment adds Google BigQuery to lineup of supported cloud data warehouses

Postman Pro automates API testing for development teams

25-year-old software firm you’ve never heard of stakes future on hyper-convergence – and Boston

Conversica lands $34M to bring AI to sales lead nurturing

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