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.

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Datical cozies up to Pivotal for synchronized database updates

Datical Inc., which makes software that automates the release of databases in sync with applications, is teaming up with Pivotal Software Inc. to make it easier for users of Pivotal’s DevOps-oriented Concourse continuous development platform to use Datical services. Datical manages application database changes alongside application code and keeps everything – including code, people and processes ...

Instana scores $20M for its machine learning-based performance management

Two months after releasing its artificial intelligence-based microservices management service, Instana Inc.  has secured a $20 million funding round led by Accel (formerly Accel Partners). The Series B round brings total funding to $27 million for the company, which was founded in Solingen, Germany and has its U.S. headquarters in San Francisco. The funds will ...

Accelerite takes single-pipeline approach to data transformation and analysis

Cloud management vendor Accelerite is getting into the big data business with the release today of a significantly enhanced version of what it calls an “end-to-end, self-service” analytics platform that enables data preparation, online analytics processing, visualization and collaboration to be done from a single interface. ShareInsights 2.0 can prepare and query millions of rows and ...

Kinetica hires industry veterans to kick-start growth of its GPU-fueled database

With a product that’s riding one of the hottest trends in high-performance computing right now – graphics processing unit acceleration — Kinetica Db Inc. is bringing in experienced management to help it scale. The company plans to announce the appointment Monday of Paul Appleby (pictured) as chief executive. A veteran of more than 20 years of high-tech ...

Study sees poor capacity planning leading to massive cloud waste

Organizations that migrate existing on-premises workloads to the cloud without revisiting the way services are provisioned are throwing away money, according to a new study. Cloud migration and optimization vendor TSO Logic Inc. looked at the usage patterns of 105,000 operating system instances from 20 customers and prospects over a six-month period and found that 84 percent ...

Dell revenue surges on server growth, but storage sales stay flat

Dell Technologies Inc. revenues surged 21 percent in its fiscal third quarter, led by strong growth in its server business, another blowout quarter by its VMware Inc. subsidiary and continued solid performance of desktop personal computers. But storage revenues were flat, and officials conceded that competitors have taken advantage of the complex merger of Dell ...

New Gartner research finds chief data officer role is rapidly going mainstream

Gartner Inc.’s latest research on the rapidly evolving role of the chief data officer finds that the job is gaining traction in global enterprises and is increasingly driving their path toward digital transformation. The survey of 287 CDOs, chief analytics officers and other high-level data and analytics leaders from around the world found that the ...

Iguazio releases high-speed serverless platform to open source

Iguazio Systems Ltd. has raised $48 million and a lot of interest for its platform-independent approach to data analytics. Now the company is releasing some of the underlying serverless computing technology under an open-source license. Called nuclio, the platform is claimed to operate at faster-than-bare-metal speed, processing up to 400,000 events per second compared with ...

Dialpad says its new small-business phone service will be free forever

The team that brought you the precursor to Google Voice is hoping lightning will strike again. Dialpad Inc., developer of enterprise voice, messaging and conferencing systems that use the voice over internet protocol, is offering small businesses of five or fewer employees a full-featured business phone system at no charge. Ever. Dialpad Free supports a ...

VMware binds management features into its cloud migration platform

VMware Inc. is putting more meat on the bones of its Cloud Foundation integrated hybrid cloud platform. A new 2.3 version announced today folds in cloud management capabilities that were previously available only as separate add-on components. It also provides for management and provisioning of compute, network, storage and application services across hybrid cloud environments. Cloud ...