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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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BMC’s Beauchamp says digital transformation is on course

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

BMC Software, Inc. went private two years ago as the winds of change were buffeting vendors in the systems management realm. The 35-year-old maker of service management, data center automation, performance management, virtualization lifecycle management and cloud computing management software hasn’t faded …

MapR add JSON support to flagship NoSQL database

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Looking to extend the scope of its high-performance Hadoop distribution, MapR Technologies Inc. today is announcing the addition of native JSON support to its NoSQL database. JSON (Javascript Object Notation) is a text-based, human-readable data interchange format that is commonly used to …

Scott McNealy’s new venture raises $15.4M

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy’s re-entry to the computer industry is drawing some serious interest from vendors as a handful of well-heeled industry veterans have just poured $15.4 million into Wayin, the real-time social marketing company he now heads. In addition …

Omniata wants to unify all your data silos

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Venture-backed data analytics firm Omniata Inc. is bringing it namesake data analytics platform out of beta test today with claims that it can integrate data from nearly any source to provide analytics in near real time. Founded by gaming industry veterans, Omniata …

Wikibon analyst sees urgent need to simplify Hadoop ecosystem

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

What do Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink, Hortonworks Dataflow, Samza, Data Torrent, and Storm have in common? They can all be used to deliver data in batch or streaming modes to Hadoop clusters. The difficulty for enterprise IT organizations is deciding …

Keen IO targets enterprises with embedded analytics engine

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Keen IO, a company founded four years ago to provide high-speed custom analytics for developers, is going upscale with a new release of its platform targeted at the enterprise. The new enterprise-oriented Keen Pro product is designed to be white labeled and …

Check Point takes new approach to zero-day detection

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Asserting that sandbox security is both inconvenient and unreliable, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has come out with a variation that it claims provides vastly improve performance by detecting threats at the CPU level. The SandBlast platform, which is available both on …

Brocade skips complexity to unify enterprise apps for mobile users

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Many organizations are facing a crushing backlog of development request for mobile applications, driven by the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement and the competitive pressure to make field sales and service people more efficient. The problem is that many vendors’ mobile apps aren’t all …

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