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

Personal care firm untangles ERP knot with cloud data warehouse

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

When you’re growing by acquisition, and each company you buy uses a different financial software platform, you need to get creative. At Domtar Corp.’s Personal Care division, that meant leaving transactional systems in place and using a cloud-based data warehouse as an …

MapR stresses stability in naming Oracle veteran Mills as CEO

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Big data software vendor MapR Technologies Inc. is putting a 20-year Oracle veteran in charge of its day-to-day operations as it enters the home stretch of what it hopes will be the road to an initial public offering (IPO). The company promoted Matt …

HPE to sell most of its software business to UK-based Micro Focus

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. will sell much of its software business to U.K.-based Micro Focus International plc for $8.8 billion, retaining a 50.5 percent share of the unit in a deal announced today.

Dell completes historic $67B acquisition of EMC

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

The drama is finally over. Nearly a year after announcing an audacious $67 billion bid for EMC Corp., Dell Technologies Inc. today officially announced that the deal is done. The combined companies begin doing business today under the Dell Technologies brand. It …

BMC sketches road map for its customers’ digital transformation

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

BMC Software Inc. kicked off its global user conference today by outlining a seven-part initiative based upon digital transformation and rolled out two new automation products aimed at DevOps and digital business. The roadmap that BMC CEO Robert E. Beauchamp laid out …

What’s holding back containers? Red Hat evangelist has some ideas

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

To hear Scott McCarty say it, the biggest barriers to the adoption of software containers in the enterprise are as much political as they are technical. McCarty (@fatherlinux, below left), whose role as a solutions architect specializing in containers at Red Hat …

IBM study: Top performers have their hybrid cloud act together

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Nearly 80 percent of C-level executives say their cloud efforts are coordinated or fully integrated, up from just 34 percent four years ago. That’s according to a new study by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV). The survey of 1,000 executives …

Cirba folds expert advisers into infrastructure optimization service

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Infrastructure optimization vendor Cirba Inc. has put its Densify virtual infrastructure capacity management software in the cloud and added new advisory services. The new capability, called Expert Insight, provides customers with “interactive insight and guidance on risks and opportunities in their VMware or …

VMware says its virtual desktops are looking more like the real thing

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. is boosting its Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) product line today with a series of new features that bring the performance and functionality of virtual desktops closer to those of dedicated PCs. VDI is one of those technologies that seems …

IT financial software maker Apptio tests initial public offering waters

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Apptio Inc., a Bellevue, WA-based developer of software that helps executives make informed financial decisions, apparently liked what it saw from the latest round of earnings from newly public tech companies this quarter. It filed to go public today with a goal …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

MapR stresses stability in naming Oracle veteran Mills as CEO

HPE to sell most of its software business to UK-based Micro Focus

Dell completes historic $67B acquisition of EMC

BMC sketches road map for its customers’ digital transformation

What’s holding back containers? Red Hat evangelist has some ideas

IBM study: Top performers have their hybrid cloud act together

Cirba folds expert advisers into infrastructure optimization service

VMware says its virtual desktops are looking more like the real thing

IT financial software maker Apptio tests initial public offering waters

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