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

Capriza enhances its toolset for simplifying mobile apps

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Capriza, Inc. has enhanced its mobile app customization suite with improved usability, speed and personalization. The company, which has raised more than $50 million from a blue-chip list of investors, has a novel approach to making enterprise applications more usable on mobile devices. …

Oracle’s audacious cloud strategy just might work, analysts say

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Can Oracle, a late entrant in the cloud infrastructure market, really achieve its audacious goal of going to head-to-head with Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Many people think so. In rolling out 24 new cloud services yesterday and committing itself to basically putting …

Ask a Wikibon analyst: Can Nutanix challenge the virtualization leader?

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

A feisty Nutanix, Inc. came out swinging at its recent user conference, taking on virtualization kingpin VMware, Inc. and seemingly setting its sights on Amazon Web Services in its bid to make data center infrastructure invisible. Nutanix, which is perhaps the hottest …

Bonitasoft buffs up BPM suite with developer appeal

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Business process management software maker Bonitasoft is introducing version 7 of its application platform, saying it’s the 14-year-old company’s biggest upgrade in more than two years. The open source version of the platform is available for download today. The new release is …

Verilume bids to turn idle CPUs into ad hoc private clouds

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

A Boston-based startup that proposes to bring the economics of public cloud infrastructure to the private data center launches today with an open source stack that it says can dramatically increase utilization of IT resources while optimizing the availability of computing power …

Birst bids to unify fragmented marketing analytics field

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

With survey after survey continuing to document the struggles marketers have measuring return on investment for their digital programs, Birst, Inc. has become the latest analytics vendor to throw them a lifeline. The company today is announcing enhancements to its Birst Marketing …

Clusterpoint hits U.S. shores with pay-as-you-go NoSQL database

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

One of the gotchas of public cloud infrastructure is penalty charges that can kick in when a user exceeds the amount of computing resource budgeted at startup. The newest player in the emerging database-as-a-service market (DBaaS) in the U.S. thinks it has …

Opinion: App stores threaten traditional software sales models

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

SugarCRM, Inc. just launched an enterprise pp exchange for commercial users of its customer relationship management software. While the company previously offered an exchange for its open-source Community Edition, the extension makes it “easy for our commercial customers to find the rich …

IBM bets big on Spark, calling it the Linux of Big Data analytics

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

IBM was late to the Hadoop party, and has had to settle for playing a supporting role. It isn’t going to make the same mistake again. The company is putting a major stake in the ground in support of Apache Spark, the …

MapR 5.0 edges Hadoop closer to real-time processing

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Continuing its drive to bring the batch-oriented Hadoop Big Data platform into the real-time world, MapR technologies, Inc. today is announcing a host of new features designed to support on-the-fly decision-making. MapR 5.0 is also crafted to support bigger workloads, responding to what …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Capriza enhances its toolset for simplifying mobile apps

Oracle’s audacious cloud strategy just might work, analysts say

Ask a Wikibon analyst: Can Nutanix challenge the virtualization leader?

Bonitasoft buffs up BPM suite with developer appeal

Verilume bids to turn idle CPUs into ad hoc private clouds

Birst bids to unify fragmented marketing analytics field

Clusterpoint hits U.S. shores with pay-as-you-go NoSQL database

Opinion: App stores threaten traditional software sales models

IBM bets big on Spark, calling it the Linux of Big Data analytics

MapR 5.0 edges Hadoop closer to real-time processing

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