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

Raising $12.2M, vFunction rolls out push-button modernization platform for Java apps

APPS By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Application modernization startup vFunction Inc. today said it raised $12.2 million in seed funding and unveiled a platform that it said enables organizations to transform software written in the Java programming language into microservices via a scalable and repeatable assembly-line process. The …

With massive $1B infusion, Databricks takes aim at IPO and rival Snowflake

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

When Bloomberg recently disclosed Databricks Inc.’s ambitions to go public early this year, it noted that the company was aiming for a “significantly higher” valuation than the $6.2 billion it was assigned after closing a $400 million Series F round in late …

IBM Garage’s agile techniques are remaking the company’s services unit

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated deployment of cloud-based projects worldwide and the IBM Corp. Garage is reaping the benefits. The co-creation and agile development unit within IBM’s Global Business Services organization saw client engagements soar from 300 last January to 1,500 this …

SAP beats sales and earnings estimates atop continued cloud growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

SAP SE provided few surprises in its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings announcement early today, which it had previewed earlier this month, as the enterprise resource planning giant notched declines in both revenue and operating profit but beat analysts’ estimates on metrics. The company …

Neo4j outfits its hosted graph database service for enterprise use

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Graph database vendor Neo4j Inc. today introduced a fully managed version of its product with what it calls enterprise-grade security and massive scalability. The new Neo4j Aura Enterprise isn’t the company’s first foray into managed services. It launched Aura Professional, a service …

Cloud and PCs help Microsoft toast estimates in its first $40 billion quarter

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Microsoft stock soared nearly 5% in early after-hours trading as the company trounced lowered revenue and profit expectations for its fiscal second quarter and topped $40 billion in quarterly sales and $15 billion in profit for the first time. Both the cloud …

IBM misses revenue target but says steady growth will resume this year

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. beat analysts’ expectations today with fourth-quarter earnings of $2.07 per share, 28 cents better than the $1.79 that was expected, but growth continues to be elusive. Revenue fell 6.5% from the same quarter last year, to $20.37 billion, about 1.3% …

Kyligence’s Apache Kylin-based distributed data warehouse gets cloud-native features

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Kyligence Inc., developer of an analytics platform based upon the Apache Kylin open-source distributed data warehouse, today released the fourth generation of the cloud version of its analytics platform. Kyligence Cloud 4 has cloud-native features such as independent storage and compute scaling …

Where’s cloud computing headed this year? The experts lay down their cards

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Edge computing, vertical clouds, a profusion of multicloud options and the end of on-premises backup. Those are a few of the prognostications being put forward by cloud computing pundits and information technology providers amid the flood of predictions that jam our inbox …

SambaNova unveils purpose-built AI machine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

SambaNova Systems Inc., an artificial intelligence hardware startup that has raised more than $465 million in venture funding, today introduced its long-anticipated computing platform optimized for AI workloads. SambaNova Systems DataScale employs custom seven-nanometer chips that the company says are better attuned …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Raising $12.2M, vFunction rolls out push-button modernization platform for Java apps

With massive $1B infusion, Databricks takes aim at IPO and rival Snowflake

IBM Garage’s agile techniques are remaking the company’s services unit

SAP beats sales and earnings estimates atop continued cloud growth

Cloud and PCs help Microsoft toast estimates in its first $40 billion quarter

IBM misses revenue target but says steady growth will resume this year

SambaNova unveils purpose-built AI machine

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