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

What’s driving the never-ending cloud startup boom

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Cockroach Labs Inc. launched an enterprise version of the open-source CockroachDB distributed database six years ago at a time when “all companies wanted to run the database themselves,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Spencer Kimball. The business was steady, but like many …

VMware extends zero-trust security options to its global points of presence

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. is extending its offerings in the white-hot Secure Access Service Edge arena to the farthest reaches of corporate networks with the announcement of new support for edge devices delivered across a constellation of global points of presence. VMware Cloud Web …

Dell touts simplification in broad upgrade of VxRail hyperconverged line

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Dell Technologies Inc. is beefing up its VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure and adding an option for users to incorporate external third-party storage with a series of announcements tonight. The highlight of the multipart announcement is to “simplify operations and deployment from day zero …

Surprise growth in data center business propels VMware past earnings estimates

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc.’s fiscal first-quarter earnings report highlighted both the progress the company is making in moving to a subscription sales model and the surprising resilience of corporate data centers. Revenues of $2.99 billion were better than analysts’ $2.95 billion estimates and earnings …

Okta reports strong growth, citing synergies from Auth0 acquisition

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Okta Inc. today reported strong revenue and profit growth in its first fiscal quarter, highlighted by a 52% increase in its subscription backlog, but the identity and access management company issued mixed guidance for the second quarter and full year. Revenue for both …

Databricks releases data-sharing protocol to open source

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Databricks Inc. is using its Data + AI Summit today to launch a new open-source project called Delta Sharing that provides an open protocol for securely sharing data across organizations in real time, regardless of the platform on which the data resides. The company also …

Catalogic sells flagship business to IBM to focus on Kubernetes backup

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Catalogic Software Inc. is selling off its flagship business to IBM Corp. to concentrate its resources on what it believes is a bigger opportunity in the cloud. The company announced today that IBM will buy its ECX copy data management business for an unspecific …

Five9 CEO: Virtual agents will transform our interaction with call centers

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

With a stock price that has tripled over the past two years and three straight quarters of strong financial performance under its belt, cloud contact center provider Five9 Inc. is on a roll. The San Ramon, California-based company’s software-as-a-service platform has caught …

French startup smells an opportunity in digital olfaction

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Of the five human senses, smell gets the least respect. It’s the sense people say they would miss the least if they lost it, according to a 2018 YouGov America survey. Nearly half of adults between the ages of 22 and 30 …

COVID’s silver lining: The race to cloud-based cybersecurity quickens

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

When security integrator Optiv Security Inc. went into lockdowns more than a year ago, Chief Information Officer Sujan Turlapaty immediately realized what he was up against. “We went from managing 20 to 30 branch offices to 2,500 remote offices,” he said. “The attack …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

VMware extends zero-trust security options to its global points of presence

Dell touts simplification in broad upgrade of VxRail hyperconverged line

Surprise growth in data center business propels VMware past earnings estimates

Okta reports strong growth, citing synergies from Auth0 acquisition

Catalogic sells flagship business to IBM to focus on Kubernetes backup

French startup smells an opportunity in digital olfaction

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