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

Kubernetes co-developers aim to make the container orchestration software ‘boring’

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Kubernetes, the orchestrator for the freestanding software operating environments called containers, has been described as the next Linux — meaning that it will soon be so ubiquitous that no one will even be aware that it’s there. That suits Craig McLuckie (pictured, …

Illumio joins security unicorn club with $225M late-stage investment

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

In another sign of investors’ eagerness to buy into the surging interest in zero-trust security, Illumio Inc. said it raised $225 million in a new late-stage round that carries a $2.75 billion “unicorn” valuation. The Series F round was led by Thoma …

Transmit Security raises record $543M funding round to rid the world of passwords

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Transmit Security Ltd., the newest entrant in the race to rid the world of passwords, early today said it has raised a record-setting $543 million funding round that values the company at $2.2 billion and marks what it says is the largest …

Neo4j’s $325M funding round lifts fortunes of graph database industry

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

In a major shot in the arm for the graph database industry, market leader Neo4j Inc. today announced it has raised $325 million in what it says is the largest-ever venture capital round for a private database company. The Series F venture …

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 …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Illumio joins security unicorn club with $225M late-stage investment

Transmit Security raises record $543M funding round to rid the world of passwords

Neo4j’s $325M funding round lifts fortunes of graph database industry

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

LATEST FROM THECUBE

UPCOMING CUBE EVENTS

RECENT CUBE EVENTS

SEMICON West 2026

AI Data Pipeline Forum 2026

Infor Velocity Week 2026

Dell AI Data Platform Event: From Ambition to AI at Scale 2026

Fully Connected 2026

SIGN IN

Bio

Ethics statement

Contact us

Partner with us

Contact us

Guest inquiry