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

Opaque Systems nets $22M to bring collaboration to confidential computing

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Opaque Systems Inc., which makes technology that enables collaborative analytics and artificial intelligence projects to be conducted on confidential computing platforms, today announced a $22 million Series A funding round that brings its total financing to $31.6 million. Founded by the developers …

VMware adds cross-cloud management to core virtualization platforms

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

In a bid to erase distinctions between on-premises and cloud infrastructure VMware Inc. today introduced extensions to its vSphere virtualization platform and vSAN storage virtualization software that provide centralized cloud-based management of data center infrastructure. They also provide access to new cloud …

Kyligence rolls out unified metrics platform for analytics

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Kyligence Inc., the developer of an analytics platform based upon the Apache Kylin open-source distributed data warehouse, today announced a platform that organizations can use to store business metrics in order to align them better with analytics reports. Kyligence Zen is described as an …

Starburst buys acceleration technology for its distributed query engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Starburst Data Inc., developer of a commercial distribution of the Trino distributed SQL query engine, today said it has acquired Varada Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based maker of a data lake analytics accelerator. The price wasn’t disclosed. Varada, which was formerly named Expandb …

Conquering ‘shadow IT’: How enterprises are trying to tame the cloud software beast

APPS By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Like many companies, high-performance sporting equipment maker Catapult Sports Pty Ltd. used to give its employees wide latitude to choose their own software-as-a-service applications. But as its information technology department prepared a campaign to achieve compliance with a key security standard, its …

Oracle introduces lower-cost version of its full on-premises cloud stack

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Saying its Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer offering has been an unqualified success with large customers, Oracle Corp. today is introducing a lower-cost version of the on-premises cloud stack along with a rack-level package that delivers an assortment of cloud services customers can deploy …

Ahana rolls out “forever free” managed Presto service and takes $7.2M in additional funding

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Ahana Cloud Inc., which offers managed and commercial versions of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, today announced an additional investment of $7.2 million from Liberty Global Ventures BV with participation from existing investor GV Management Co LLC. The funding expands the company’s …

Snowflake bids for transactional and data science workloads in broad set of enhancements

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Snowflake Inc. is leading off its Snowflake Summit 2022 conference today with a brace of announcements aimed at making its platform more programmable, flexible and accommodating of a greater variety of workloads, including transactions. The company, which has been chastened by slowing growth …

Data mesh creator: Standards needed to avoid ‘potential for abuse and misuse’

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Having fired the imagination of the data analytics industry with her concept of a data mesh, Zhamak Dehghani has taken the natural next step and written a book about it. “Data Mesh: Delivering data-driven value at scale” covers not just the technology …

Databricks adds data lineage feature to its catalog with support for nontraditional uses

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Databricks Inc. today is adding data lineage features to its Unity Catalog governance platform, a move that it says significantly expands data governance capabilities on the hybrid data warehouse or data lake that it calls a lakehouse. Data lineage describes how data …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Opaque Systems nets $22M to bring collaboration to confidential computing

VMware adds cross-cloud management to core virtualization platforms

Kyligence rolls out unified metrics platform for analytics

Starburst buys acceleration technology for its distributed query engine

Conquering ‘shadow IT’: How enterprises are trying to tame the cloud software beast

Oracle introduces lower-cost version of its full on-premises cloud stack

Ahana rolls out “forever free” managed Presto service and takes $7.2M in additional funding

Data mesh creator: Standards needed to avoid ‘potential for abuse and misuse’

Databricks adds data lineage feature to its catalog with support for nontraditional uses

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