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

Replicant raises $7 million for conversational AI system for contact centers

AI By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence startup Replicant Inc. today said it has raised $7 million in seed funding for its customer relationship-focused voice response technology and appointed a former executive from contact center unicorn Talkdesk Inc. as chief executive. The San Francisco-based company said its automated …

Data governance specialist Collibra zeroes in on raft of new privacy regulations

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Collibra Inc., which makes software that helps companies enforce the integrity and security of their data, today is launching a new product aimed at helping enterprises comply with two major privacy-related regulations: the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the soon-to-be-enacted …

SAP stock falls as earnings come up short, but execs say it’s a blip

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

SAP SE missed estimates on both profit and revenue in its fiscal second quarter, sending its stock down nearly 5% in early trading, but the company blamed the shortfalls on uncertainty caused by trade tensions with China and said it’s on track to …

IBM’s revenue slide drags on, but strong profit growth buoys investors

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Updated: IBM Corp.’s business continued to shrink in its fiscal second quarter, although its profit grew at a faster clip than analysts expected and the company reaffirmed its full-year earnings guidance. The news initially buoyed investors, but sentiment turned negative after the …

Cloudera relents, adopts pure open-source strategy

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Who acquired whom? Although billed as a “merger of relative equals,” last fall’s combination of Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. was by all accounts a Cloudera acquisition of its smaller big-data rival. But it now appears that Hortonworks’ open-source business model has …

Alluxio’s data orchestration platform now spans multiple clouds

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Alluxio Inc., developer of a virtual distributed file system aimed specifically at data science and analytics workloads, today released what it says is the most significant enhancement to its platform since its initial release more than three years ago. The company sells …

After closing Red Hat acquisition, IBM bids for hybrid cloud dominance

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

When it announced its intention to acquire Red Hat Inc. last October, IBM said it expected to close the deal in the third quarter of 2019. Big Blue let little grass grow under its feet in fulfilling that pledge, announcing this morning …

MapR pins hopes on single investor as rescue deadline passes

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. missed a self-imposed July 3 deadline to secure new funding or find a buyer, but said it’s continuing discussions with a potential funding source that could keep the big-data company in business. “MapR is making meaningful progress toward a …

Report sees peril in cybercriminals’ looming use of AI

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

A new report this week by anti-malware vendor Malwarebytes Inc. paints an ominous picture of the potential impact of artificial intelligence technologies such as machine learning and deep learning once criminals have the skills and incentive to use them. That hasn’t happened yet, …

Red Hat earnings should have future parent IBM smiling

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

It appears that Red Hat Inc. is going out in style. In what may be the company’s last earnings report as an independent entity, the open-source software vendor beat expectations on both revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2020 first quarter. Revenue …

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Latest from Paul Gillin

Replicant raises $7 million for conversational AI system for contact centers

Data governance specialist Collibra zeroes in on raft of new privacy regulations

Report sees peril in cybercriminals’ looming use of AI

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