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

Dell bids to deliver unified experience across multiple clouds

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Citing a goal to deliver “a cloud experience wherever customers have apps and data,” Dell Technologies Inc. today is stepping up its multicloud game with a set of data storage and backup services that span multiple cloud platforms. The company also said it’s …

Rocketlane scores $18M early-stage funding to automate customer onboarding

APPS By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Rocketlane Corp., maker of a software-as-a-service platform purpose-built for onboarding new customers, today announced that it has closed an $18 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $21 million. The company, which has headquarters in both India and San …

Virtana bags $73M to build its hybrid cloud observability business

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Virtana today said it raised $73 million in an unspecified funding round to grow its hybrid cloud operations management business. The company, officially Virtual Instruments Inc., sells tools based on machine learning that help enterprises monitor, manage and optimize hybrid cloud environments, …

Databricks kicks off vertical push with analytics platform for retailers

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Distributed data analytics and machine learning software provider Databricks Inc. is making its first foray into vertical markets today with the announcement of the Databricks Lakehouse for Retail. The announcement is, at least in part, a formality since Databricks has had a …

WorkStep raises $25M to help businesses improve frontline employee retention

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Technology firms that target so-called “deskless” workers continue to reel in investment dollars. San Francisco-based WorkStep Inc., which has a database of more than 1 million frontline workers and software that matches them with prospective employers, today announced it has raised a …

Cloudinary bootstraps its way to a $100M annual revenue run rate

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

In a current venture funding market that can only be described as giddy, Cloudinary Ltd. is an outlier. The company, which makes a cloud-based media management platform, has never taken outside investment yet today it is announcing its first acquisition and an …

Collaboration startup Miro joins the unicorn club with $400M funding round and $17.5B valuation

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Investors continue to throw money at technology aimed at improving collaboration among remote workers. Today, Miro, the business name of RealtimeBoard Inc., said it has closed a $400 million funding. The Series C round brings its total amount raised to $476 million and …

Startup seeks to make energy-hogging air conditioners obsolete

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

A small clean-technology startup is aiming to rid the world of the growing climatic impact of air conditioning with a new approach that it claims can reduce peak energy demand by more than 80% and greenhouse gas emissions by 85%. Parkland, Florida-based …

Digital twins build a new presence in the construction industry

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Commercial construction is an orchestration exercise of almost unimaginable complexity that has nevertheless long been managed mostly on paper. Teams of builders, electricians, plumbers, architects, structural engineers and numerous other professions must come together around a shared task of turning a design …

Inside Lucata’s graph analytics-optimized superserver

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

The field of graph analytics was virtually unknown outside of the academic realm just a few years ago, but all that has changed with the market’s insatiable hunger for all things big data. The top two companies in the graph database market …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Rocketlane scores $18M early-stage funding to automate customer onboarding

Virtana bags $73M to build its hybrid cloud observability business

Databricks kicks off vertical push with analytics platform for retailers

WorkStep raises $25M to help businesses improve frontline employee retention

Cloudinary bootstraps its way to a $100M annual revenue run rate

Collaboration startup Miro joins the unicorn club with $400M funding round and $17.5B valuation

Startup seeks to make energy-hogging air conditioners obsolete

Digital twins build a new presence in the construction industry

Inside Lucata’s graph analytics-optimized superserver

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