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

A smaller, simpler Docker looks to get its groove back

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

To say it has been a tumultuous two years for Docker Inc. would be an understatement. The onetime software industry unicorn, which raised nearly $260 million during a frenetic four-year run following the release of its namesake software container technology in 2013, …

Seven technologies and trends the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Crisis plants the seeds of ingenuity, and as the world struggles out of the COVID-19 pandemic and into an unknown new normal, it’s clear that entire industries will be transformed by innovations that have emerged to combat the disease. Store closures may …

How a big-data safety net is catching high-risk patients during pandemic’s rampage

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Data analytics are often cast in the cold light of financial forecasts and factory plans, but the COVID-19 pandemic has offered a look at how the same tools can be used to better the human condition. At Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc., a …

HPE revenue plunges, sparking new round of cost cuts

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Updated: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. today reported sharply lower revenues in its fiscal second quarter and said it would initiate salary reductions and unpaid leaves to adapt to demand declines brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenues fell 15% in constant currency …

Grafana Labs says its visualization engine is now a full-scale observability platform

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 announced the general availability of Grafana 7.0 with faster visualizations and features to simplify the development of custom plugins. …

Two security startups independently chip away at passwords

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Two startups are separately tackling the task of eliminating passwords from standard online interactions with new products announced today. Identité Inc. is rolling out a mobile app-based authentication system that it says eliminates the need for passwords while also shortening the login …

Microsoft leads $30M funding round for FortressIQ’s process improvement technology

AI By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

FortressIQ Inc., the maker of an operational improvement platform that uses machine learning to observe and recommend improvements to business processes, today announced it has raised $30 million in a new funding round. The Series B round was led by Microsoft Corp.’s …

Talend earnings impress but company withdraws full-year guidance

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Talend SA showed no ill effects from its recent chief executive transition today as the data integration provider soundly beat both revenue and earnings estimates in its first quarter. Revenues rose just over 18% over the same period last year, to $68.1 million, …

IBM CEO says pandemic will be a turning point for digital transformation

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

In a keynote address that was light on specifics but long on intentions, new IBM Corp. Chief Executive Arvind Krishna today promised to make IBM more responsive to the industries in which its customers operate, easier to work with and dedicated to …

Orca raises $20M for nonintrusive multicloud security platform

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Orca Security Ltd. today said it has secured $20 million in a Series A funding to advance its novel cybersecurity approach. The company claims it can find vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, weak passwords, lateral movement risks, secret keys and sensitive data such as personally …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Seven technologies and trends the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate

How a big-data safety net is catching high-risk patients during pandemic’s rampage

HPE revenue plunges, sparking new round of cost cuts

Grafana Labs says its visualization engine is now a full-scale observability platform

Two security startups independently chip away at passwords

Microsoft leads $30M funding round for FortressIQ’s process improvement technology

Talend earnings impress but company withdraws full-year guidance

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