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

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 …

Broadcom reported in talks to buy closely held SAS Institute

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Broadcom Corp. is in talks to buy Cary, North Carolina-based SAS Institute Inc. in a deal that would value the closely held SAS at between $15 billion and $20 billion, according to a report today in The Wall Street Journal. Citing unnamed sources, …

JEDI contract cancellation could give DOD cloud strategy a needed reboot

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

In scrapping its $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Defense surprised no one except perhaps Microsoft Corp., which appeared to have stolen the deal from front-running Amazon Web Services Inc. nearly two years ago. With …

HPE buys query acceleration platform Ampool to boost Ezmeral hybrid cloud analytics

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. today said it has acquired Ampool Inc., a small maker of an open-source query acceleration platform used in business intelligence scenarios. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed. In a blog post, HPE said Ampool’s scalable data federation layer and multitiered …

Microsoft issues urgent warning over newly discovered Windows security flaw

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has issued an urgent advisory notice recommending that Windows users immediately install an update to fix a serious vulnerability. The flaw, known as PrintNightmare, affects the Windows Print Spooler service. Attackers who can remotely execute the code can gain system-level …

Neurodivergence is a gift for the password king of IBM’s X-Force cybersecurity team

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

As an elementary school student in the Canadian city of Calgary in Alberta, Dustin Heywood could barely grip a pencil. His handwriting was so bad that it often took hours to write a single page. Yet he was able to solve math …

Red Hat boosts OpenShift to support a greater range of workloads

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. is rolling out Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 today, touting IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack and IPv6 single-stack support, new ways for users to define, version and track changes to their application delivery pipelines declaratively using Git repositories and a better developer experience. …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

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

Broadcom reported in talks to buy closely held SAS Institute

HPE buys query acceleration platform Ampool to boost Ezmeral hybrid cloud analytics

Microsoft issues urgent warning over newly discovered Windows security flaw

Neurodivergence is a gift for the password king of IBM’s X-Force cybersecurity team

Red Hat boosts OpenShift to support a greater range of workloads

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