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

‘Digital twin’ developer Matterport goes public through SPAC transaction

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Matterport Inc., a maker of three-dimensional cameras and spatial data software, went public today on the Nasdaq exchange in a $640 million transaction with special-purpose acquisition company Gores Holdings VI Inc. A SPAC is essentially a publicly held shell company that is …

Software AG says it has turned the corner in shift to a subscription business

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Saying that a two-year campaign to transition its business from license to subscription revenue is bearing fruit, Darmstadt, Germany-based Software AG today said its second-quarter revenues grew 10%, to $257.4 million in constant currency, driven by a 17% jump in product revenue and …

Google’s Looker facelift aimed at enhancing developer appeal

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Google LLC is giving the Looker business intelligence platform it acquired early last year a major upgrade. A new release announced today features a developer portal, support for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure hosting, an interactive means to explore application programming interfaces and incremental persistent derived …

Dremio’s data lake query engine is now a managed cloud service

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Dremio Corp., developer of a self-service data analytics technology based on the Apache Arrow in-memory columnar data processing framework, today announced a version of its product delivered as a managed cloud service. Dremio Cloud leverages a no-copy data architecture that enables analytics …

Snowflake edges into security market through Securonix partnership

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

In a move that a Snowflake Inc. executive described as the company’s entry into the cybersecurity market, the data cloud company today announced an alliance with Securonix Inc., maker of a cloud-native security information and event management system. The deal is a …

Pure Storage makes FlashStack converged platform available as a service

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Pure Storage Inc. today expanded its storage as-a-service options to include its FlashStack converged infrastructure product and also modified its Portworx cloud storage service to align costs to actual hours of usage. FlashStack, which was jointly developed by Pure Storage and Cisco Systems Inc. is …

IBM revenue grows for second straight quarter, cheering investors

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. provided the best evidence yet today that it’s back on a growth track, reporting that second-quarter revenue rose 3% from a year ago. Revenue of $18.75 billion was actually flat when adjusted for currency fluctuations and divested businesses, but it was still …

Gartner sees strong bounceback in global tech spending led by cloud and devices

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Worldwide information technology spending is projected to total $4.2 trillion in 2021, up of 8.6% from 2020, according to a new forecast today by Gartner Inc. After a trough amid the pandemic-related slowdown in 2020, when spending grew just 0.9%, investments are …

Platform9 adds KubeVirt support for integrated container and virtual machine management

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Platform9 Systems Inc. today added support for KubeVirt, an interface for running virtual machines alongside the encapsulated software environments called containers, to its platform for managing workloads with the Kubernetes container orchestrator. Platform9 Managed KubeVirt is being released as an open-source project …

Red Hat boost automation features in Kubernetes cluster management

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. today announced new automation features in version 2.3 of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, a tool that provides greater flexibility for managing and scaling hybrid and multicloud environments in a unified and automated way. The new release …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

‘Digital twin’ developer Matterport goes public through SPAC transaction

Software AG says it has turned the corner in shift to a subscription business

Google’s Looker facelift aimed at enhancing developer appeal

Dremio’s data lake query engine is now a managed cloud service

Pure Storage makes FlashStack converged platform available as a service

IBM revenue grows for second straight quarter, cheering investors

Gartner sees strong bounceback in global tech spending led by cloud and devices

Platform9 adds KubeVirt support for integrated container and virtual machine management

Red Hat boost automation features in Kubernetes cluster management

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