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

HPE rebounds with third-quarter earnings that soundly beat estimates

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. stunned investors with an unexpected 15% decline in revenue in its fiscal second quarter, Chief Executive Antonio Neri reassured them that the shortfall was a onetime event related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It appears he was right. …

Redis Labs achieves unicorn status with $100M funding round

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Redis Labs Inc., which sells a commercial version of the popular Redis open-source database management system, today said it has closed $100 million in a new late-stage funding. The Series F round brings Redis’ total financing to more than $246 million and …

New life for old apps: Cloud drives enterprises to modernize software

APPS By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Last year Mutualink Inc. completed a major overhaul of the software application at the heart of its business of connecting public safety and private organizations to share information during emergencies. It was the fourth major restructuring of the application in the company’s …

No-code contract management firm Agiloft raises first external funding in its 30-year history

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Agiloft Inc., a company that specializes in no-code contract and commerce lifecycle management, today said it raised $45 million in growth equity investment. It’s the first round of external funding the company has raised since its founding in 1991. The company also …

In broad Kubernetes rollout, Red Hat boosts cluster management and adds virtual machine links

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. is using the KubeCon/CloudNativeCon virtual exposition kicking off today to underscore its intentions to be to the Kubernetes container orchestrator what Red Hat Enterprise Linux is to the widely used operating system. Among a slate of announcements today are …

Grafana Labs raises $50M in oversubscribed funding round

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Raintank Inc.’s Grafana Labs, which is the lead developer of the Grafana and Loki open-source projects used to visualize time-series data, today said it raised $50 million in a funding round despite claiming not to need the money. The company said the Series …

Who needs live events? Virtual conferences are attracting more people than ever

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Domo Inc. scheduled its sixth annual Domopalooza conference for March 18, expecting more than 3,000 people to travel to Salt Lake City for four days of hands-on technical training, rubbing elbows with company executives and evening entertainment, culminating in a performance by …

Looker boosts marketing integration with parent Google in first updates since acquisition

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Looker Data Sciences Inc. today is releasing the first fruits of its joint development efforts with Google LLC since the search giant finalized the acquisition of the business intelligence company in February. Looker said the updates focus on modernizing BI, improving performance and …

Studies find epidemic of human errors threatens cloud security

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Two recent studies conducted by security providers highlight the growing risks of configuration errors, which have become the single greatest security threat users face in the cloud. User errors are already the second most common type of breach, according to Verizon Corp.’s …

Former Docker chief sees cloud native as a journey

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

As the former chief executive of Docker Inc., Ben Golub was pivotal in guiding software containers to their remarkable popularity. The self-contained software capsules that encompass applications and the services needed to run them have been widely adopted for their portability, compactness …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

HPE rebounds with third-quarter earnings that soundly beat estimates

Redis Labs achieves unicorn status with $100M funding round

No-code contract management firm Agiloft raises first external funding in its 30-year history

In broad Kubernetes rollout, Red Hat boosts cluster management and adds virtual machine links

Grafana Labs raises $50M in oversubscribed funding round

Who needs live events? Virtual conferences are attracting more people than ever

Looker boosts marketing integration with parent Google in first updates since acquisition

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