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

Oracle targets data warehouse rivals with automated features for HeatWave MySQL service

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. today embellished the HeatWave database query accelerator it introduced last year with machine learning-based automation features that it says further improve performance. MySQL Autopilot, which is being introduced today, includes automated provisioning, parallel loading, data placement, query plan improvement, scheduling and …

Kyligence adds ad hoc exploration to its Apache Kylin-based analytics platform

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Kyligence Inc., the developer of an analytics platform based upon the Apache Kylin open-source distributed data warehouse, today announced a new version of its self-tuning analytics acceleration platform. The version 4.5 release features the addition of ad hoc exploration, an integrated ClickHouse open-source analytical …

Data warehousing has problems. A data mesh could be the solution

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Since its founding 13 years ago as an online shoe seller, Zalando SE has grown to become one of the largest e-commerce fashion retailers in Europe. Given its roots on the web, it’s not surprising that about 15% of the firm’s 14,000 …

AI development platform maker Dataiku’s $400 million in new funding pegs its value at $4.6 billion

AI By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Dataiku Inc., the maker of a data science platform targeted at artificial intelligence development, said it raised $400 million in a Series E funding round that boosts its valuation to $4.6 billion. That brings the company’s total funding to more than $646 …

VMware ports Horizon VDI to Microsoft’s Azure cloud

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. today is announcing that it will make substantially all of its VMware Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure available on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. Previously the service was available only on Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure. The move is part of a …

Ahana lands $20M to commercialize Presto distributed query engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Good times continue to roll in the database and analytics market. Ahana Cloud Inc., curator of a commercial version of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, today announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Third Point LLC, a hedge …

SAS Institute says it plans to go public in 2024

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Just two weeks after SAS Institute Inc. reportedly backed out of talks to be acquired by Broadcom Inc., the company today issued a statement saying it plans to go public in 2024. The company said it will begin to take preparatory steps …

Strong sales growth calms nervous ServiceNow investors

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

ServiceNow Inc. today reported second-quarter revenue of $1.41 billion, well above analysts’ estimates of $1.36 billion and up 32% year-over-year. Profit of $1.42 per share also exceeded the $1.21 consensus. The results were driven by 27% growth in subscription revenues, to $1.33 …

Noetic Cyber emerges from stealth with security monitoring using a graph database

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Noetic Cyber, a firm founded by three veteran cybersecurity entrepreneurs, launched out of stealth mode today with $20 million in a Series A funding and an agentless technology that continuously monitors information technology assets and their relationships with each other. The company’s …

Microsoft blows past earnings estimates on continuing strong cloud growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. continued its recent record of smashing earnings expectations with fiscal fourth-quarter results that handily beat analyst estimates on growth in its cloud business that has accelerated since last quarter. The company reported sales of $46.2 billion today, up 21% from …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Oracle targets data warehouse rivals with automated features for HeatWave MySQL service

Kyligence adds ad hoc exploration to its Apache Kylin-based analytics platform

Data warehousing has problems. A data mesh could be the solution

AI development platform maker Dataiku’s $400 million in new funding pegs its value at $4.6 billion

VMware ports Horizon VDI to Microsoft’s Azure cloud

Ahana lands $20M to commercialize Presto distributed query engine

SAS Institute says it plans to go public in 2024

Strong sales growth calms nervous ServiceNow investors

Noetic Cyber emerges from stealth with security monitoring using a graph database

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