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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Cisco’s Chambers will be a tough act to follow

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Two years ago I worked with Cisco Systems, Inc. on a contract basis helping build the program for the company’s annual CIO Summit. The event brought together about 100 CIOs from some of the world’s largest companies for two days of strategizing …

Sprint touts single-SIM strategy for global Internet of Things service

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

In a bid to take advantage of the feeding frenzy over the Internet of Things (IoT) and to gain ground against market leader AT&T, Inc. , Sprint Corp. is expanding its Command Center device monitoring and control service to span more than …

Ask a Wikibon Analyst: Will Amazon Dominate the Public Cloud?

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com, Inc. reported blowout earnings on Thursday, revealing that its public cloud service business is not only on track to exceed $6 billion this year but is highly profitable and growing quickly as well. Amazon’s cloud footprint is so large that the …

Wikibon analyst: Flash-as-Memory-Extension will revolutionize analytics

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

There’s a new kind of flash-enabled application architecture coming, and Wikibon co-founder David Floyer (right) expects it to do a lot more than take a couple of ticks off the clock. He thinks it will revolutionize the speed at which organizations deploy real-time …

Startup Avni says it makes switching clouds drag-and-drop simple

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Placing a bet that the profusion of cloud computing platforms has created a new kind of problem as well as an opportunity, startup Avni, Inc. has introduced Software Defined Cloud (SDC) 2.0, a sort of cloud-of-clouds technology that it says makes it …

Teradata rolls out warehouse appliance, adds virtualization feature

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

While Teradata Corp.’s recent acquisitions should leave little doubt that the data warehousing giant is serious about distributed Hadoop Big Data, the company is also demonstrating that it hasn’t forgotten about the big integrated appliances that got it this far. The company today …

Wikibon sees major disruptive potential in software containers

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Wikibon analysts Steve Chambers and Stu Miniman lobbed a grenade into the so-far polite debate over whether software containers are a complement or a threat to server virtualization. Containers could not only supplant virtual machines within enterprises on a grand scale, but …

Birst and Tableau partner in another marriage of BI rivals

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

In an arrangement that symbolizes the craziness of the rapidly evolving business intelligence (BI) market, Birst, Inc. and Tableau Software, Inc. today announced a partnership that will combine Birst’s data extraction and normalization engine with Tableau’s popular visualization software via an ODBC …

These slides are all you need to make the case for an all-flash data center

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

For IT leaders looking to make the case to move their entire infrastructure to flash storage, Wikibon CTO and cofounder David Floyer has a slide deck for you. Floyer’s new 30-slide presentation goes deep into the economics of flash, looking far beyond …

Flash will soon be cheaper than disk, Wikibon research confirms

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Flash storage continues on a trajectory to become more affordable than magnetic disk for the majority of IT applications by the end of 2016, according to Wikibon’s latest Storage Cost Assumptions. In fact, flash has already surpassed magnetic disk as the most …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Cisco’s Chambers will be a tough act to follow

Sprint touts single-SIM strategy for global Internet of Things service

Ask a Wikibon Analyst: Will Amazon Dominate the Public Cloud?

Wikibon analyst: Flash-as-Memory-Extension will revolutionize analytics

Startup Avni says it makes switching clouds drag-and-drop simple

Teradata rolls out warehouse appliance, adds virtualization feature

Wikibon sees major disruptive potential in software containers

Birst and Tableau partner in another marriage of BI rivals

These slides are all you need to make the case for an all-flash data center

Flash will soon be cheaper than disk, Wikibon research confirms

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