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

Nutanix confident as sold-out user conference opens | #NEXTConf

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Investors may be asking questions about Nutanix, Inc.’s initial public offering prospects, but its strategy looks as solid as ever. As the Nutanix .NEXT conference debuts this week in Las Vegas, expect the company to unleash a flood of new product announcements …

Oracle to Wall Street skeptics:</br>“We’re doing just fine, thank you”

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Oracle continues to baffle its critics, thanks largely to a surge in its cloud computing business. Despite a late start in cloud computing, open-source competition and, most recently, allegations that it misrepresented cloud revenues, the company again beat Wall Street sales and …

ContainerX ships toolset billed as ‘vSphere for containers’

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

ContainerX Inc. today released its multi-tenant container platform in both paid and free versions. Billed as equivalent to VMware Inc.s’ vSphere for containers, the product is intended to do for containers what dynamic resource scheduling (DRS) did for virtual machines nearly a decade …

Sapho brings Google Now-like notifications to enterprise apps

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

If you use Google Now, you’ll immediately understand what Sapho Inc. is up to. Google Now is the Android-based automated assistant that watches what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with and presents information it thinks may interest you. For example, …

Barefoot says its programmable chip will revolutionize networking

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Barefoot Networks Inc. launched today from stealth with a networking chip technology that it boldly claims will revolutionize the computer industry. The company’s proprietary Tofino switch chip processes packets at 6.5 terabits per second, which is twice as fast as any other product …

IBM cloud boosted by SugarCRM, VMware endorsements

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

IBM’s cloud just got two more big endorsements. SugarCRM Inc. today announced that customers can deploy its namesake customer relationship management (CRM) platform across IBM’s global network of cloud-based data centers. That gives customers the option of deploying the application on everything …

Buying LinkedIn, Microsoft makes big bet on social data. Too big?

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

In buying LinkedIn Corp. today for a stunning $26.2 billion, Microsoft is making an unprecedented bet that social data can supercharge its Office and cloud businesses. The central question: Is it too big a bet on an asset of uncertain value that …

VMware improves over-the-air mobile security, management

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. announced a broad series of enhancements to its mobility support platforms, including new features in its Workspace ONE enterprise mobility management platform that simplify remote management and upgrades and a partnership with Tanium Inc. that helps administrators more easily find and …

Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2B

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn Corp. in an all-cash deal valued at $26.2 billion. LinkedIn will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary, with CEO Jeff Weiner (above right) reporting to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (above left). The deal has the unanimous support of …

Survey finds growing confidence in public cloud security

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

The long-held perception that cloud computing is inherently less secure than on-premise computing is finally dissipating, but cybersecurity pros still have plenty of anxiety about the aspect of cloud security they can’t control: end-user behavior. A new survey of 2,200 security pros …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Nutanix confident as sold-out user conference opens | #NEXTConf

Oracle to Wall Street skeptics:</br>“We’re doing just fine, thank you”

ContainerX ships toolset billed as ‘vSphere for containers’

Sapho brings Google Now-like notifications to enterprise apps

Barefoot says its programmable chip will revolutionize networking

IBM cloud boosted by SugarCRM, VMware endorsements

VMware improves over-the-air mobile security, management

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