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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.

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Survey sees rapid growth in enterprise cloud adoption

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

A new survey of IT professionals indicates that cloud computing is growing faster in large organizations than in small ones. Use of public clouds at large companies will grow 52 percent annually over the next two years, while private cloud use will …

GNU founder Stallman: ‘Open source is not free software’

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Interviewing Richard Stallman is a challenge. The terms sheet for the interview carries a half dozen caveats and requests, most relating to Stallman’s desire to not be identified as an advocate for open source software. There’s also a long suggested reading list …

Qubole releases Kafka ingestion, conversion service to open source

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Less than three weeks after open-sourcing its Quark cost-based SQL optimizer, big data-as-a-service provider Qubole Inc. is at it again. Coincident with Kafka Summit taking place in San Francisco this week, Qubole said it’s releasing its StreamX ingestion service under an Apache …

Oracle blitzes sales and marketing pros with new cloud options

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

It looks like Oracle is tired of watching Salesforce.com Inc. have all the fun. The database giant is unleashing a torrent of new marketing-oriented products and services today at a quartet of customer experience-focused conferences it’s holding in Las Vegas for customer …

Survey finds tech professionals are a footloose bunch

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Watch out San Francisco; New York is out to get you. At least that’s what it would seem from the opinions expressed by users of the anonymous tech recruiting site Woo. The startup munged through the profiles of 5,000 of its users …

Microsoft narrowly misses Q3 net, but cloud business is booming

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Not yet. Microsoft narrowly missed analysts estimates and earnings and all but matched revenue expectations in the fiscal third quarter, but it offered weaker-than-expected guidance for the year, knocking its shares down in immediate after-hours trading and perhaps obscuring the bigger growth …

Spark muscling in on Hadoop’s territory, says Wikibon analyst

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Is Apache Spark the successor to Hadoop? Some people think so. Given the batch-oriented Hadoop’s complexity and the notorious performance problems of the MapReduce processing framework and the components that depend upon it, the integration and speed that the in-memory Spark analytics …

MemSQL raises $36M to advance its in-memory analytical database

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

MemSQL Inc., developer of a scalable SQL-based in-memory distributed database, closed an over-subscribed series C financing round of $36 million, bringing its total funding to $85 million and setting the stage for international expansion. Previous investors Accel Partners LP, Khosla Ventures LLC, …

Canonical courts enterprises, developers with new Ubuntu release

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

With a newly signed deal with longtime antagonist Microsoft under its belt, Canonical Ltd. is rolling out the sixth major release of Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS), adding features that should improve the Linux distribution’s appeal to developers and enterprises. An LTS release is supported and …

EMC misses earnings target but says Dell merger is on track

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

EMC isn’t doing itself any favors in helping along its merger with Dell Inc. The storage giant reported weaker-than-expected earnings this morning, citing an “excess of unfulfilled orders.” Earnings per share were 31 cents, flat from a year ago and two cents below …

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