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

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 …

Pure Storage boards Kubernetes train for software-defined management

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Doubling down on the assets it purchased with the acquisition of Portworx Inc. last fall, Pure Storage Inc. today is enabling code-directed storage and data management along with unified visibility and support using the Kubernetes orchestrator for the portable operating platforms called …

VMware picks longtime executive Raghuram as new CEO

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. today chose a longtime insider to lead the company through a major product line makeover and an impending spinoff from parent Dell Technologies Inc. Raghu Raghuram, 58, is currently executive vice president and chief operating officer of products and cloud services. …

Legion raises $50M to change the rules of hourly workforce scheduling

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Legion Technologies Inc., a maker of software for scheduling hourly workforces, today announced it has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to $85.5 million. The Redwood City, California-based company said it grew nearly 400% last …

Talend CEO sees private equity sale as a pit stop on the way to new growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Talend SA missed analysts’ earnings-per-share in its just-reported first quarter, but the stock barely moved because the announcement was purely academic: The data integration services provider agreed to a $2.4 billion buyout offer from private equity firm Thoma Bravo LP in March …

Dell Technologies embraces ‘as-a-service’ delivery across its product portfolio

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Dell Technologies Inc. is kicking off its Dell Technologies World conference today by marking its entry into as-a-service delivery of its products, saying it intends ultimately to make its entire product portfolio available on a subscription basis. Dell is following in the …

Five9 shares jump on strong growth, higher forecast

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Cloud contact center provider Five9 Inc. continues to roll, comfortably beating Wall Street expectations on revenue and earnings in its first fiscal quarter and raising guidance for year. Revenue rose 45% from the first quarter of 2020, to $137.9 million. Net income …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Catalogic sells flagship business to IBM to focus on Kubernetes backup

French startup smells an opportunity in digital olfaction

Pure Storage boards Kubernetes train for software-defined management

Legion raises $50M to change the rules of hourly workforce scheduling

Talend CEO sees private equity sale as a pit stop on the way to new growth

Dell Technologies embraces ‘as-a-service’ delivery across its product portfolio

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