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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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Qubole releases SQL optimizer as open source

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

  Big data-as-a-service provider Qubole Inc. has open-sourced its Quark cost-based SQL optimizer that simplifies and optimize access to data across multiple hosts. Quark essentially chooses between popular big data open source query systems such as Hive, RedShift and Presto/Impala to select that …

Cost focus ignores cloud’s true value, says Wikibon

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

If you’re thinking of cloud computing solely as a money-saving alternative to captive infrastructure then you’re missing the whole point, asserts Wikibon cloud analyst Brian Gracely in his latest report, Moving to The Cloud: Key Impacts to Consider (available on Wikibon Premium). …

Teradata uses analytics to sniff out regulatory no-nos

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

In a bid for the hearts and minds of businesses in regulated industries, Teradata Corp. is introducing a packaged compliance solution that combs through digital communications to detect evidence of regulatory violations. The Teradata Communications Compliance Analytic Solution is aimed at the …

MariaDB adds OLAP support to transactional database engine

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

In a bid to expand its charter beyond the transactional database realm, MariaDB Inc. is extending the capabilities of its open source relational database with online analytic processing (OLAP) operations that work on the same data store. The company said MariaDB ColumnStore, …

Survey sees big growth for next-generation databases

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Results of a new survey by data-protection vendor Datos IO Inc. provides further evidence that scale-out distributed and NoSQL databases – or what Datos IO calls “next generation” databases – are poised for significant short-term growth. The survey of 204 database professionals …

Spark on track to drive big data market, says Wikibon analyst

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Early in his new report on adoption of Apache Spark in Systems of Intelligence on Wikibon Premium, Wikibon Analyst George Gilbert uses a wonderful analogy to describe the much-maligned performance limitations of the MapReduce processing framework: “If an entire program is like a …

Bug-tracking app has broad payoff for travel search firm

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

The hotly competitive online travel market doesn’t tolerate inefficiency. Global travel search site Skyscanner Ltd. discovered that a tool it employed to improve bug tracking in the IT organization had much broader efficiency benefits across the 770-person company. Founded in 2003, Skyscanner is …

MemSQL5 seeks to bridge transaction, analytics processing

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

MemSQL, a scalable SQL-based in-memory distributed database, is getting major performance enhancements in version 5, announced today at Strata+Hadoop World in San Jose, CA. Most significant is the addition of technology to deliver low-latency query compilation for interactive data exploration through the …

Apache Flink creators snag $6M for stream-processing startup

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Just when you thought you had finally wrapped your brain around the importance of Apache Spark for event processing, there’s a new real-time player to consider. Data Artisans, a startup founded by the original creators of the Apache Flink stream data processing framework, is …

EMC’s flash strategy – simplified

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Amid turmoil in the storage industry driven by customers’ rapid adoption of flash technology, software-defined infrastructure and hyper-convergence, EMC has come under some fire for offering a confusing product strategy. Between its homegrown VMAX and XtremIO arrays and the technology it acquired with …

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