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

Startup takes Big Data approach to data center troubleshooting

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

An Atlanta-based startup is tackling the IT complexity problem with a big data approach, hoping partnerships with scores of point solution providers can yield unprecedented insight on the source of performance problems. OpsDataStore is a data ingestion layer and analytics engine that …

Startup says it’s made containers enterprise-friendly

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

With the surging popularity of containers creating a host of new companion platforms and accompanying management headaches, a startup founded by a team of former Citrix Systems, Inc., Microsoft, and VMware Inc. engineers and backed in part by former VMware CTO Steve …

Sweet! Food firm’s integration recipe has all the right ingredients

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Flavor maker Amoretti came up with a novel way to save money on software licensing costs and improve visibility into its operations by using data integration software to connect its customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning engines. The 30-year-old family …

SIOS quickens update pace for virtual machine performance analysis platform

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

SIOS Technology Corp. is doubling down on its new discipline of performance analytics with version 3.3 of its SIOS iQ machine learning analytics software and promises to deliver updates every four to six weeks. The company, which started as a maker of clustering …

If you think white-box hardware is cheaper, read this Wikibon report

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

“White box” appliances have been all the rage recently as users have sought to separate the functionality of software from underlying hardware. Makers of integrated appliances inflate hardware costs in an effort to squeeze more out of customers who are locked in …

Managed cloud storage ends self-support headaches for online learning provider

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

For all the compelling cost and customization benefits that open source software promises, sometimes it’s easier just to hand the task off to someone else. That’s the decision online learning platform provider Moonami, LLC made recently when it opted to move 10 …

Ask a Wikibon analyst: Is Amazon unstoppable in the cloud?

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

On the heels of a blitzkrieg of new product announcements and third-quarter earnings that blew away estimates, some people are asking if Amazon Web Services (AWS) is destined to become the Microsoft of the cloud. Not likely, said veteran cloud watcher and …

ClearSky banks $27M to build out hybrid storage network

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

With the Dell Computer Inc. – EMC merger distracting two of the storage industry’s largest players, ClearSky Data Inc. thinks the time is right to tell enterprise customers that it has a better way to store and manage data. The company, which …

IBM to buy Weather Company, launch IoT Watson business unit

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

IBM is getting into the weather forecasting business and, at least for the short term, becoming a big customer of Amazon Web Services. In a $2 billion deal that grew out of a partnership announced this summer, IBM said it will acquire The …

VMware’s Patel: Virtustream will be a top-five cloud service provider

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

EMC and VMware Inc. last week joined forces to combine their respective cloud capabilities with those of Virtustream Inc., the cloud software and services provider that EMC acquired in a $1.2 billion deal earlier this year. The companies said the move is …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Startup takes Big Data approach to data center troubleshooting

Startup says it’s made containers enterprise-friendly

Sweet! Food firm’s integration recipe has all the right ingredients

SIOS quickens update pace for virtual machine performance analysis platform

If you think white-box hardware is cheaper, read this Wikibon report

Ask a Wikibon analyst: Is Amazon unstoppable in the cloud?

IBM to buy Weather Company, launch IoT Watson business unit

VMware’s Patel: Virtustream will be a top-five cloud service provider

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