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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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HP’s new security technology looks for malware phoning home

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Reflecting the growing realization that traditional signature-based approaches to malware detection aren’t working any more, Hewlett-Packard Co. today is rolling out an analytics-based tool that identifies infected hosts by inspecting an enterprise’s Domain Name System (DNS) traffic. The HP DNS Malware Analytics …

Birst’s ‘Networked BI’ lets users play but keeps data safe

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Fast-growing analytics startup Birst, Inc. is announcing a new way for organizations to democratize business intelligence, enabling individual users to customize their views and applications without compromising the central data store. A concept the company calls “Networked BI” is designed to “virtualize …

Where some see cloud, Equinix sees “interconnections”

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Today’s cloud infrastructure services work pretty much the same way that corporate data centers have worked since the 1960s: Large, centralized server farms deliver information over far-flung networks. But Equinix, Inc. believes it’s come up with a better way to support the …

ClearSky seeks to erase lines between cloud and local storage

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Network latency and unpredictable performance have made cloud storage mostly the domain of cloud-native applications or file stores, but ClearSky Data, Inc. wants to make the cloud as fast and manageable as a local disk array. The company today is launching a …

Dell goes after midsize companies with hyper-scale needs

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Hoping to replicate the success of its Data Center Solutions division, which sells hardware and software to the biggest hyper-scale customers, Dell, Inc. has created the Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) group to go after second-tier companies whose computing demands aren’t quite as …

VMware exec counters critics, says vCloud Air growing rapidly

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

VMware, Inc. has said it wants to be a major provider of public cloud services, but its execution strategy around its vCloud Air offering has drawn a fair amount of criticism. Two years into deployment,  revenues from hybrid cloud and SaaS offerings (of which …

Ask a Wikibon analyst: Why should I care about PaaS?

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

If you’re wondering what platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is and whether you should worry about it, Brian Gracely says you’re already behind the curve. Gracely, who began contributing to the Wikibon community last month after a long and successful career at multiple vendors and …

Enterprise flash maker Pure Storage files for IPO

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

In the first of what could be a wave of initial public offerings following the biggest technology bubble in 15 years, flash-storage maker Pure Storage, Inc. filed to go public in a market that delivered questionable returns for other so-called “unicorns.” Pure, …

HotLink unites cloud management under vCenter

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

With VMware, Inc.’s Vsphere owning more than half of the on-premise virtualization market, the people at HotLink Corp. have a simple proposition: Why not use VMware’s VCenter console to manage an entire hybrid cloud ecosystem? The company today is rolling out a …

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