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

Quinyx raises $50M as investor interest in intelligent workforce scheduling grows

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Stockholm-based workforce management software provider Quinyx AB today announced a $50 million Series C funding round to expand its U. S. presence, fund acquisitions and invest in the intelligence features of its core product. The company’s platform enables organizations to automate, optimize …

Starburst now runs distributed queries across all three major cloud platforms

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Starburst Data Inc., which sells the commercial distribution of the Trino distributed SQL query engine, today introduced what it says is the first software-as-a-service analytics package that can assess data across multiple clouds. Starburst Galaxy, which the company introduced in February, is …

Why your cloud computing costs are so high – and what you can do about them

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Small mistakes in the cloud can have big consequences. John Purcell, chief product officer at custom developer DoiT International Ltd., tells of one customer who made a keystroke error that caused the company to spin up an Amazon Web Services Inc. instance …

Grassroots effort helps JPMorgan Chase ease the tech skills crisis

PEOPLE By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has found a way to boost employee morale, stem attrition and build its employees’ technology skills. And it’s doing it for the price of pizza and doughnuts. For the past five years, the financial services giant has been …

VMware beats estimates but investors want to see more subscription growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

VMWare Inc.’s third-quarter sales and earnings beat analysts’ estimates on healthy 11% sales growth as the company’s message of helping customers move to multicloud environments appeared to be hitting home. “It’s clear that multicloud will be the model for digital business for the …

Cloud security unicorn Lacework lands record-busting $1.3B funding round

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

When Lacework Inc. raised $525 million in a Series D round back in January, it billed the investment as one of the largest in the history of the cybersecurity industry. With an additional $1.3 billion in funding announced today, the security analytics …

Foxit integrates digital signatures into its PDF editor

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Foxit Software Inc., maker of a line of tools for creating and editing PDF documents, today announced version 11.2 of its Foxit PDF Editor with integrated e-signature capabilities. The combination enables users to create, edit and sign legally binding documents without leaving …

Alluxio stokes data orchestration ambitions with $50M funding round

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Distributed filesystem developer Alluxio Inc. today announced $50 million in new funding, bringing its total funds raised to date to $70 million. The company also released version 2.7 of its Data Orchestration Platform, claiming a fivefold improvement in input/output efficiency for machine learning …

Invoca now spots which missed calls deserve the fastest response

AI By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Invoca Inc., a maker of artificial intelligence-based software that enables companies to analyze contact center representatives’ conversations with shoppers, today announced a new cloud service that spots missed sale conversion opportunities when prospective customers abandon a call because they fail to reach …

Oracle boosts cloud security in an effort to set itself apart from rivals

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

In a bid to distinguish itself from other cloud platform providers through a focus on security, Oracle Corp. today is broadening the range of built-in and add-on cybersecurity features in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The company cited the results of a survey it …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Quinyx raises $50M as investor interest in intelligent workforce scheduling grows

Starburst now runs distributed queries across all three major cloud platforms

Grassroots effort helps JPMorgan Chase ease the tech skills crisis

VMware beats estimates but investors want to see more subscription growth

Cloud security unicorn Lacework lands record-busting $1.3B funding round

Foxit integrates digital signatures into its PDF editor

Alluxio stokes data orchestration ambitions with $50M funding round

Invoca now spots which missed calls deserve the fastest response

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