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.

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Resilient Network Systems lands funding to boost novel authentication technology

Resilient Network Systems Inc. is adding $1.2 million to its coffers via a series A extension round led by HRK Investments LLP. The company plans to invest the money in sales and marketing to boost awareness of its identity and access management platform, which integrates multiple authentication technologies and distributed sourcing. “The product’s pretty well buttoned ...

Box courts developers with burnished API library

Box Inc. is enhancing the experience for users of its application program interfaces in a bid to convince corporate developers and independent software vendors of the merits of incorporating Box’s document-sharing features into their products. Box estimates that more than 80,000 developers already tap into its API library, which includes features such as file upload ...

VMware makes virtual desktops faster, easier to deploy and manage

VMware Inc. is updating its Horizon virtual desktop services to reduce the cost and complexity of delivering Windows desktops over a network and improving performance for users as well. The new Just-in-Time Management Platform integrates VMware App Volumes, Instant Clone and User Environment Manager to simplify end-user profile management and boost performance. The platform enables ...

MapR plugs container storage gap with direct access to its converged platform

MapR Technologies, Inc. is attempting to cash in on container mania, announcing what it calls the industry’s first persistent storage system for containers that includes stateful access to files, database tables and message streams from any location. The company does this through the MapR Persistent Client Container, called PACC, a lightweight containerized application that makes ...

Startup uses AI to relieve burden of security data analysis

Loom Systems Ltd. is joining the growing ranks of companies applying artificial intelligence to the task of making sense out of the mass of data that overwhelms security professionals. The company today is announcing an operational analytics platform for real-time detection and resolution that reads log files and looks for anomalies. Targeted at DevOps and information ...

Conversica further blurs line between human and robotic sales prospecting

Just six weeks after raising $34 million in funding, Conversica Inc. is enhancing its artificial intelligence-powered business conversation engine to enhance its natural language processing capabilities and add time-recognition intelligence and automated FAQ response capabilities. The company said it has also completely redesigned the user interface. The company’s automated agent attends to much of the ...

H&R Block enlists IBM’s Watson to support its 80,000 tax pros

Can you deduct the cost of your Super Bowl party? We can’t answer that question, but there are about 80,000 people at H&R Block Inc. who can. Beginning this week, they’ll be joined by the digital assistant called Watson. A collaboration between IBM Corp. and the tax-preparation giant will fold Watson into the individual tax preparation process ...

Startup wants to augment security staff, not replace them

LogicHub Inc. is emerging from stealth to join the crowded cybersecurity market today with $8.4 million in fresh funding and a novel approach to machine-aided security that puts humans first. The company, which was founded by two former Arcsight Inc. executives, says that the current trend toward applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to the process ...

Mavenlink bulks up project management suite for professional services firms

If the term “project management software” sends you into a coma, consider this: Mavenlink Inc. has raised $84 million, counts hundreds of thousands of paying customers in more than 100 countries, and it’s targeting a professional service market that will collectively bring in $3 trillion in revenues this year. Now it also has a suite of ...

Government app builder CSDC lands $30M investment

BuildGroup Management LLC, a venture capital firm led by former Rackspace Inc. Chief Executive Lanham Napier (pictured), has invested $30 million in Toronto’s CSDC Systems Inc., a 27-year-old Mississauga, Ontario-based developer of applications for government. The investment will fund customer growth, product expansion, support services and rapid technology deployment. CSDC has worked with more than 50 ...