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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SPECIAL REPORT: MANAGING THE MULTICLOUD

Complexity concerns rain on the multicloud parade

Gary Lamb remembers working on one cloud computing migration project so tricky that it was never completed. It’s an object lesson on how the seemingly boundless promise of the cloud can get mired in earthly concerns. The government agency attempting the migration was behind the eight ball from the beginning, according to Lamb, chief technology officer ...

Machine learning anchors AppDynamics’ ‘central nervous system’ monitoring vision

Cisco Systems Inc.’s AppDynamics subsidiary is broadening its monitoring scope and folding machine learning into its technology in a campaign aimed at bringing more automation to complex multicloud environments. The company, which Cisco swooped in to acquire two years ago just hours before AppDynamics’ planned initial public offering, monitors systems from an application perspective, detecting slowdowns ...

MariaDB merges transactional, analytical databases and debuts first managed service

Open-source database provider MariaDB Corp. is combining its transactional and analytical databases into a single unit and launching a managed service supporting public and hybrid cloud deployments. The new MariaDB Platform X3 announced today merges the company’s MariaDB TX and MariaDB AX offerings into one platform that the company said can support nearly limitless scalability on ...

OneLogin snares $100M in late-stage funding for its integrated identity management platform

Cloud identity management vendor OneLogin Inc. today announced a late-stage $100 million venture capital investment round, bringing its total funding to more than $172 million. Chief Executive Brad Brooks (pictured) said he hopes the new Series D round will give the company elbow room to reach cash-flow-positive status while also making acquisitions along the way. ...

Fear of disruption is driving growth in big-data investments

Organizations are upping their investment in big-data and artificial intelligence initiatives, driven by fear of disruption more than a quest for operational efficiency. That’s according to a just-released NewVantage Partners LLC survey of Fortune 1,000 companies, most of which are in the financial services and healthcare industries. The survey, which NewVantage has conducted annually since ...
PREDICTIONS 2019

2019 security forecast: Cloudy and unsettled, with a chance of gloom

Back in April we asked 22 security experts whether we’re winning or losing the war against cybercriminals, and the consensus was almost unanimously negative. Not much has changed since then, and even the growing promise of artificial intelligence as a weapon has been blunted by the reality that criminals have access to the same tools. ...
PREDICTIONS 2019

The 2019 forecast for cloud computing: Up the value chain they go

The year just concluded may end up being remembered as the one in which the final barriers to widespread cloud adoption fell. Finally convinced that concerns about security and stability were more perception than reality, chief information officers flocked to cloud platforms with the rapid adoption of software containers paving the way. Containers make it simple ...
DEEP DIVE

Stormy weather: To stop cloud giants, some open-source software firms limit licenses

A heated debate has erupted in the open-source software world that’s pitting startups against cloud computing giants. The furor concerns, of all things, new licensing terms, which software companies are adopting to thwart what they believe is unfair competition from cloud providers in general and Amazon Web Services Inc. in particular. It’s the latest development ...

Adobe beats earnings estimates, but acquisition costs weigh on forecast

Updated: Adobe Systems Inc. today issued fiscal fourth-quarter results that initially baffled investors, who first bid shares up by 3 percent in after-hours trading but then sent them down more than 1.3 percent, wiping out gains made during regular trading hours. Update: Shares fell more than 7 percent Friday, on a day when the overall ...
KUBERNETES SPECIAL REPORT

Kubernetes’ sprawling ecosystem offers lots of choice – and risk

If your organization is ready to go all in on the Kubernetes orchestration manager and you’re looking for a way to package applications for easy deployment, you’ll probably gravitate to Helm, an open-source project incubating within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. But you may also want to check out Docker Compose from the company that ...