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

Okta surfs cloud migration wave to strong revenue and earnings growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Okta Inc. continues to reap the benefits of the shift to remote work and accelerated adoption of cloud computing with fiscal third-quarter results that soundly beat analyst estimates. Revenue rose 42% from a year ago, to $217.4 million, well ahead of the $203 …

Out on the edge: The new cloud battleground isn’t in the cloud at all

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

In the process of building a global e-commerce empire that can deliver goods overnight to much of the developed world, Amazon.com Inc. has developed expertise in distributed computing, robotics and factory automation. Google LLC’s quest to deliver subsecond responses to search queries has …

Strong subscription revenue growth highlights upbeat VMware earnings

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

The good times continue to roll at VMware Inc., which topped analysts’ expectations today on both revenue and profit in the third quarter and raised its financial outlook for the rest of the year. The company, which has positioned itself as a …

Informatica boosts data integration features for Snowflake data warehouse

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Informatica Corp. is expanding its line of data integration and governance tools for the Snowflake Computing Inc. data warehouse with today’s launch of serverless data integration pipelines, a portal for creating customer profiles and a collaborative marketplace of data analytics tools. Informatica, …

VMware targets firewalls in first rollouts of its Modern Network framework

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Building on the Project Monterey enterprise virtualization strategy it outlined at its VMworld conference last month, VMware Inc. today announced a framework for network, security and physical infrastructure services along with a new subscription service for home-based workers and virtual access control services. …

Cloud computing storms a bastion of the enterprise: the data warehouse

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

In the course of managing 12 million requests for roadside an accident assistance across the U.S. each year, Agero Inc. crunches a lot of data. The contact center operation, including dispatch specialists, employs a team of data scientists to optimize the way …

Databricks nudges closer to bridging the gap between data lakes and warehouses

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Continuing its quest to make freeform data lakes a viable alternative to highly structured data warehouses, Databricks Inc. today debuted an engine that enables many workloads previously targeted at data warehouses to be executed on data lakes instead. SQL Analytics is said …

Strong cloud growth helps Talend beat earnings estimate

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Data integration firm Talend SA beat Wall Street estimates of its third-quarter earnings thanks to strong growth in its cloud business, indicating that it continues to turn the corner on the migration of its on-premises business to the cloud. The third-quarter loss of $4 …

Oracle lashes its CRM platform more tightly to back-office data

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. today introduced enhancements to its Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience customer relationship management application focused on improving both virtual selling and buying. Citing a recent Oracle-sponsored Beagle Research Group LLC study that found that traditional CRM systems are seen as more a …

Lob adds cloud big-data magic to plain old snail mail

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Some 306 billion email messages traverse the internet each day, but the need for physical mailboxes hasn’t gone away, a fact that was underscored by the U.S. election. The U.S. Postal Service still processes nearly 182 million first-class letters on a typical day. …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Okta surfs cloud migration wave to strong revenue and earnings growth

Strong subscription revenue growth highlights upbeat VMware earnings

Databricks nudges closer to bridging the gap between data lakes and warehouses

Strong cloud growth helps Talend beat earnings estimate

Oracle lashes its CRM platform more tightly to back-office data

Lob adds cloud big-data magic to plain old snail mail

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