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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Alfresco brings its content/process management platform to Amazon Kubernetes and Glacier

Alfresco Software Inc. is bringing its open-source enterprise content management and business process management services platform to the Amazon Web Services Inc. Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes or EKS and adding support for Amazon Glacier archival storage in a new release announced today. The company’s Digital Business Platform can be used to create automated workflows involving ...

ClearSky raises $20M, partners with Equinix to expand its storage as a service

ClearSky Data Inc. said today it has raised $20 million in venture financing and signed a partnership with colocation provider Equinix Inc. that will expand its footprint across the U.S. and eventually internationally. ClearSky sells a storage-as-a-service platform that provides guaranteed performance and data protection across a global network by using colocated equipment and a proprietary ...

Red Hat tightens container integration with latest OpenShift release

Red Hat Inc. is upping its Kubernetes game with the release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14, the latest version of its infrastructure-as-a-service product. The new version announced early today, which is based upon the OpenStack “Rocky” community version, improves integration with OpenShift, Red Hat’s own version of Kubernetes, and features better support for bare-metal ...

Talend shares plunge 35% on weak guidance, plans to buy data prep company

Updated: Data integration software provider Talend SA slightly beat Wall Street earnings estimates for its fiscal third quarter on revenue that matched analysts’ forecasts, but the news wasn’t all good today. The company also issued fourth-quarter guidance that was slightly below consensus estimates and said its on-premises data transformation business is contracting faster than expected, ...

MapR targets big-data rivals’ merger with free migration assessment

MapR Technologies Inc. is betting that the impending merger of big-data rivals Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. will mire those companies in so much organizational minutia that customers will be open to making a switch. MapR is the sole surviving independent member of the trio of well-funded startups that emerged from the early days of ...
Kubernetes Special Report

Special Report: Kubernetes orchestrates a mass movement to the cloud

Bloomberg L.P. may be best known for its news service and ubiquitous stock trader terminals, but more than a quarter of its 19,000 employees are software engineers and technologists who turn out thousands of custom applications each year to help Bloomberg customers understand and forecast the machinations of financial markets. Bloomberg runs more than 14,000 ...

Graph databases get a boost as market leader Neo4j raises $80M

Graph database maker Neo4j Inc. said today it has raised an $80 million late-stage funding round, doubling the company’s total venture capital investment to $160 million and making it the best-funded startup in its market. The company said it will use the funds to hike investment in its flagship platform to “support popular use cases, including ...

Nutanix takes its multicloud manager to the on-premises data center

In a nod to the popularity of hybrid cloud architectures, Nutanix Inc. is taking its Beam multicloud governance and management software into the data center. The San Jose, California-based company today announced that the service it debuted in May for Nutanix cloud instances will now be able to peer into customers’ on-premises Nutanix environments as well. ...

Dremio expands scope and boosts speed of its Apache Arrow-based analytics engine

Dremio Corp. is adding a data catalog to its self-service data analytics platform in a major release announced today. The company is also incorporating new controls for multitenant deployments, boosting end-to-end data encryption, offering options to run inside software containers and adopting Gandiva, an open-source performance-enhancing library for the Apache Arrow distributed query engine upon which the ...

Microsoft shrugs off market swoon thanks to success of its hybrid cloud strategy

Updated: Microsoft Corp. capped off a no-good awful day on Wall Street with a happy ending, reporting earnings that handily beat analyst estimates. On a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 600 points and the Nasdaq skidded nearly 4.5 percent, Microsoft reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $29.1 billion, up 19 percent ...