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

Unicorn sighting: Druva lands $130M for its cloud-native data protection service

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Cloud data protection startup Druva Inc. today said it has raised $130 million in new investment, bringing its total funding to $328 million and vaulting it into the ranks of “unicorns,” or startups with an estimated value of more than $1 billion. This …

HPE ups its hybrid cloud game with intelligent management and high-end storage array

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is kicking off its annual Discover conference this week with a host of announcements aimed at moving its hybrid cloud initiative ahead and folding artificial intelligence into its infrastructure management offerings. Updates include the extension of current machine-learning-driven …

NetApp ports cloud tools to its hyperconverged platform to ease hybrid deployments

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Continuing its diversification strategy beyond its storage legacy, NetApp Inc. today announced the availability of its NetApp Cloud Data Services on the hyperconverged appliance it introduced two years ago. The company said it’s also expanding the capabilities of its cloud management platform to …

MapR extends deadline to raise money for continued operations

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. has extended its deadline to July 3 to secure new funding or find a buyer. The company had previously said it would “cease operations and close the Santa Clara headquarters” by June 14 if it couldn’t raise funds. In …

Raising $11M, Edgewise boils complex network segmentation down to a single click

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Edgewise Networks Inc. said today it has raised $11 million in venture funding and also launched a new platform that it claims can radically shorten the time needed to create and manage “zero-trust” security environments using an increasingly popular network security technique called …

Salesforce to buy Tableau for $15.7B as analytics market consolidation accelerates

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Customer relationship management giant Salesforce.com Inc. early today said it’s buying Tableau Inc. in a blockbuster all-stock deal valued at $15.7 billion. The news comes just four days after Google LLC announced plans to acquire Tableau rival Looker Data Sciences Inc. for …

Google’s Looker purchase opens new front in cloud computing wars

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Google LLC is making its largest acquisition in the public cloud market with the intended purchase of business intelligence firm Looker Data Sciences Inc. for $2.6 billion in an all-cash transaction announced this morning. The deal has the potential to help jumpstart Google’s …

AtScale ups data warehouse support and adds development kit for platform integration

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

AtScale Inc., developer of a business intelligence abstraction platform that reduces or eliminates the the need for data extract/transform/load procedures, Wednesday updated its core software. The update includes the addition of native multidimensional support for Microsoft Corp.’s Power BI, improved integration with …

Salesforce.com reassures jittery investors with solid results and raised estimates

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

Salesforce.com Inc. calmed investor concerns about slowing growth with solid fiscal first-quarter financial performance that eclipsed Wall Street estimates for both revenue and earnings. The company slightly lowered second-quarter earnings estimates but raised its full-year outlook to earnings of between $2.88 and …

VMware CTO sees one unified platform anchoring customers’ multicloud plans

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN7 YEARS AGO

A lot of VMware Inc.’s customers view it as what it was in the past: a company that “virtualizes” hardware to make data centers more flexible and efficient. Kit Colbert, chief technology officer of VMware’s cloud platform business unit, is here to …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

HPE ups its hybrid cloud game with intelligent management and high-end storage array

MapR extends deadline to raise money for continued operations

Raising $11M, Edgewise boils complex network segmentation down to a single click

AtScale ups data warehouse support and adds development kit for platform integration

Salesforce.com reassures jittery investors with solid results and raised estimates

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