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

Survey finds surge in real-time and streaming analytics adoption

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

If a new survey of 4,000 professionals who work with big data is any indication, real-time and streaming analytics are about to take off in a big way. OpsClarity Inc., a provider of monitoring software for fast data and streaming applications, found that 92 percent of companies surveyed plan …

Choosing development platforms? Wikibon tells you what to look for

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

As containers and platform-as-a-service platforms move into the mainstream, IT organizations must make some careful choices about where to focus their development efforts, mindful of the fact that they could live with these decisions for a long time, notes Wikibon analyst Brian …

MSP uses predictive software to better manage the here and now

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

When managed service provider Ensono spun out of its corporate parent, Acxiom Ltd., in January, it wanted to make a distinctive mark in a crowded business. As the IT arm of the marketing technology and services giant, the organization had a long reputation …

Pentaho offers blueprint to keep data lakes from becoming swamps

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Pentaho Corp. is throwing information-addled big data teams a lifeline with a blueprint that helps them create a stable and repeatable process for ingesting big data into Hadoop data lakes. “Filling the Data Lake” is a framework and process for untangling the …

Former DoD chief talks leadership, big data and the ‘superficial’ 2016 Presidential campaign

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

TheCUBE has hosted thousands of technology executives, IT practitioners and gurus over the past five years, but rarely does a guest have the kind of big picture perspective of Dr. Robert M. Gates. As the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from …

Wikibon calls for security to become a board-level issue

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Siloed organizations, lack of awareness of the value of data and the growing inevitability of attack are holding organizations back from taking a coordinated approach to information security, writes Wikibon Chief Research Officer David Vellante in a new report on Wikibon.com (membership …

Storage ‘whiz kid’ Walsh returning to IBM to run storage division

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

He just couldn’t stay away. Less than three years after leaving a position as vice president and business line executive for IBM Storage, Ed Walsh is returning, this time to run the whole show. Walsh confirmed that he will become general manager …

European facilities management giant buys in to IBM Watson IoT

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

European facilities provider ISS A/S has signed an agreement with IBM to use the Watson IoT cognitive computing platform to change the way it manages more than 25,000 buildings worldwide. The $75 billion firm will use Watson to manage its buildings more …

IBM adds cloud option to mobile app development platform

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

IBM has taken its MobileFirst development platform to the cloud. The toolset, which was previously available only on premise, can now be provisioned quickly in the IBM Bluemix cloud. IBM is positioning the offering as a mix-and-match option, with customers having the …

Hortonworks tightens Hadoop security, intros Spark-based notebook for data scientists

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

As Hadoop Summit opens today in San Jose, CA, Hortonworks Inc. has some new goodies for the 4,000-plus people who are expected to attend. Version 2.5 of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) boosts security with improved dynamic classification capabilities that can be …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Survey finds surge in real-time and streaming analytics adoption

MSP uses predictive software to better manage the here and now

Pentaho offers blueprint to keep data lakes from becoming swamps

Former DoD chief talks leadership, big data and the ‘superficial’ 2016 Presidential campaign

Wikibon calls for security to become a board-level issue

Storage ‘whiz kid’ Walsh returning to IBM to run storage division

European facilities management giant buys in to IBM Watson IoT

IBM adds cloud option to mobile app development platform

Hortonworks tightens Hadoop security, intros Spark-based notebook for data scientists

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