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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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Gartner halves forecast of IT spending growth to 2.4% in 2023

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Gartner Inc. expects worldwide information technology spending to grow 2.4% in 2023, to $4.5 trillion, down from its previous forecast of 5.1% growth, according to a new report released today. However, the downward revision is more a function of the strong U.S. …

Moving to the supercloud means rethinking data management

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

In becoming the largest privately held freight transportation company in North America, Estes Express Lines Inc. created a lot of data silos. Following years of acquisitions, diversification and geographic expansion, by 2021 the data fragmentation picture across the company was “pretty bad,” …

Walmart to offer logistics services via Salesforce cloud

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Continuing its 18-month-old drive to expand its business into technology services, Walmart Inc. today announced a partnership with Salesforce Inc. that will make Walmart’s Store Assist fulfillment-as-a-service and GoLocal deliver-as-a-service offerings available to Salesforce users. Both applications will be made available through the …

Progress Software acquires NoSQL data integration engine MarkLogic

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Progress Software Inc. today announced a deal to acquire MarkLogic Inc., the maker of a NoSQL database management system that’s primarily used for enterprise data integration. The purchase price wasn’t initially disclosed, but press reports later set it at $355 million. Progress …

IBM overhauls partner program with simpler model, more incentives

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Continuing a nearly three-year campaign to shift sales responsibility for the bulk of its accounts from direct to indirect channels, IBM Corp. today announced an overhaul of its partner support program that increases partner access to its resources, incentives and support while …

Zip brushes up user interface of its procurement platform

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Procurement management software startup Zip today announced several new user interface features in its product. Zip, which is the business name of ZipHQ Inc., simplifies the procurement process by routing and tracking requests, asking conditional questions, and documenting the status of requests …

MariaDB stock drops in early trading following IPO

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Following through on an announcement it made in February, database management system provider MariaDB plc went public today on the New York Stock Exchange through a merger with Angel Pond Holdings Corp. Ordinary shares and warrants began trading under the symbols “MRDB” …

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