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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Microsoft, Red Hat team up on OpenShift service on Azure cloud

Microsoft Corp.’s love affair with open-source software marked another milestone today as the company joined with Linux provider Red Hat Inc. to announce the general availability of a native version of Red Hat’s OpenShift on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The companies said Azure Red Hat OpenShift is the first jointly managed OpenShift offering in the public ...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Come and get it

Red Hat Inc. kicked off its Red Hat Summit conference in Boston today with the much-anticipated announcement that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is now available. The release comes nearly six months after the newest version of the company’s flagship platform entered beta testing and nearly five years after the last major release hit the ...

In a product blitz, Dell pushes edge, cloud, AI and hyperconverged buttons

Continuing a cavalcade of product rollouts at its Dell Technologies World conference this week in Las Vegas, Dell Technologies Inc. pushed many of the industry’s hottest buttons today with the announcement of new capabilities in cloud, hyperconverged infrastructure, edge computing and artificial intelligence. The assortment of new products and services runs the gamut from low-end ...

A year on, EU’s GDPR hasn’t changed data governance practices much, studies find

With the first anniversary of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation coming late next month, a pair of new studies find that the law’s onerous penalties for failure to protect personal information haven’t produced much change in corporate data governance. An annual audit published by data protection vendor Varonis Systems Inc. discovered that the average large company leaves ...

Okera ups its game in data lake governance

Data governance startup Okera Inc. today is adding attribute-based access control and automated business metadata tagging to the policy enforcement capabilities of its software for managing, securing and governing data access on data lakes at large scale. The company, which launched from stealth mode last spring, is tackling the problem of data governance in data ...

Reporting blowout earnings, SAP says profits are now top priority

SAP SE toasted analyst expectations for both revenue and earnings on 48% growth in cloud revenue in the first quarter and raised its 2019 profit outlook, sending shares up more than 12% today.  The software giant’s net profit jumped 25%, to 1.08 billion euros ($1.21 billion), over the same quarter last year. Revenues rose 16.3% ...

Quest Software adds containers to its infrastructure monitoring suite

Quest Software Inc. is extending its Foglight systems monitoring software line to support containers with real-time and historical analysis features that can be used to quickly identify problems in container implementations spread across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Foglight is an application and website monitoring platform that’s commonly used in risk assessment, diagnostics, user management ...

Reeling us in: How phishing email scams keep getting smarter

Open your preferred email client. Now hit “page down” three times. Chances are one of the messages that just scrolled past you is a phishing email, a message that’s intended to fool you into sending money to a stranger, giving up your login credentials or installing malware on your computer. Phishing emails have been around ...

Trovares reels in $2M for high-performance graph analytics engine

Trovares Inc., a property graph analytics company started by the co-founder and former chief executive of Cray Inc., has raised $2 million to launch a new graph analytics engine. The engine uses parallel processing to deliver what the company says is order-of-magnitude speed improvements compared to conventional graph databases. The Series A funding, announced Monday, brings ...

IBM beats on profits but misses on revenue, sending investors into a funk

IBM Corp. beat first-quarter net income estimates today but disappointed investors with a larger-than-expected decline in quarterly revenue, sending its stock down more than 3% in after-hours trading. The company blamed delayed decision-making in the Asia-Pacific region for the shortfall and continued to back away from talk of growth, focusing instead on profitability metrics. It ...