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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Waterline targets data-discovery tool at organizations confronting GDPR deadline

With the May 25 implementation date for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation looming, Waterline Data Inc. today is unveiling the Waterline Data Discovery Platform, a data discovery tool that the company saids can dramatically accelerate the process of identifying and organizing an organization’s data assets. The Waterline Data Discovery Platform uses machine learning ...

Dell reverse-merger report overshadows upbeat VMware earnings

VMware Inc. beat forecasts for its fiscal fourth-quarter results, but the news did nothing to ease the beating the stock took today. That’s because of news earlier today that Dell Technologies Inc. had filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission that indicated it may go ahead with a reverse merger with VMware that ...

Citing acceleration in demand, Salesforce.com beats earnings estimates

With competitors from Microsoft Corp. to Oracle Corp. training their guns on Salesforce.com Inc.’s core customer relationship management business, many market watchers have been wondering when the company’s torrid growth rate will slow. They’re still wondering. The CRM giant once again topped estimates in its fiscal fourth quarter, reporting net income of $67.6 million, or ...

Cloudian raises $25M in cash, $100M in credit to fund shift to consumption-based pricing

Object storage appliance maker Cloudian Inc. is joining the “composable infrastructure” trend with a combined round of investment and loan financing that will enable it to offer pay-by-the-drink licensing. Composable infrastructure is a cloud-inspired approach to deployment and licensing that virtualizes compute, storage and network resources and delivers them as services. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. ...

TigerGraph adds multiple views, calling it a graph database first

Graph database startup TigerGraph Inc. is coming out with version 2.0 of its platform today, offering what it says is a unique feature that enables multiple users to work on the same graph simultaneously. Graph databases are a type of NoSQL database that represent data as objects rather than in rows and columns. Connections can ...

Survey finds wide gap between practices of cloud leaders and laggards

It probably comes as no surprise that companies that are killing it in the cloud are more disciplined, strategic and accountable than those that aren’t. Now there’s a survey to prove it. The study of 550 senior managers at midsized and large organizations who are involved in cloud operations finds that cloud “leaders” – those ...

HPE toasts forecasts with across-the-board sales and profit growth

Call it Meg Whitman’s parting gift. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today reported stronger-than-expected revenue and profit per share in its fiscal first quarter, fueled in roughly equal parts by improved business execution, a strong sales backlog and acquisitions. Revenue rose 11.6 percent year-over-year, to $7.7 billion, beating consensus estimates of $7.07 billion by 9 percent ...

FileCloud combines remote file sharing with enterprise control

CodeLathe LLC, today introduced an enterprise version of its file-sharing and synchronization platform that enables organizations to manage document distribution and access across multiple shared resources with a fine level of control. FileCloud Enterprise Edition is similar in concept to services such as DropBox Inc.’s DropBox and Microsoft Corp.’s OneDrive, but it works with existing file permissions ...

Red Hat tackles business rules automation with rebranded Decision Manager

Red Hat Inc. is repositioning its former JBoss BRMS business rule management system as a more general decision management tool aimed at leaders looking to automate operational decisions. The rebranded Red Hat Decision Manager 7 is described as a major upgrade of JBoss BRMS that simplifies the development and deployment of rules-based applications and services. ...

Datical database automation enhancements speed application assembly

Datical Inc. today is rolling out version 5 of its platform for automating database releases to keep them in synch with applications. The new release improves collaboration in DevOps environments, in which software developers team directly with information technology operations staff, by enabling developers to manage and rework database code changes continuously in the same ...