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

Io-Tahoe upgrades data catalog to spot and tag personal info in data streams

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Io-Tahoe LLC, a unit of British utility giant Centrica PLC, today is enhancing its machine learning-driven data catalog with features that it says can discover and classify streaming data. The capability can be used, among other things, to discover personally identifiable data …

In cybersecurity, it’s AI vs. AI: Will the good guys or the bad guys win?

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI last month made the unusual announcement: It had built an AI-powered content creation engine so sophisticated that it wouldn’t release the full model to developers. Anyone who works in cybersecurity immediately knew why. Phishing emails, which try …

VMware crushes earnings forecasts on larger deals and diversified products

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Amid a quarterly earnings season that’s a mixed bag for infrastructure players, VMware Inc. furnished the best evidence yet that it has successfully navigated the transition from server specialist to strategic information technology partner. The virtualization giant today reported fiscal fourth-quarter …

With major overhaul, VMware moves closer to ‘NSX everywhere’ ambitions

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. today is rolling out what it says is the most significant upgrade ever to its NSX network virtualization software, one that decouples the network from the VMware hypervisor. The upgrade essential decouples the network from VMware’s hypervisor, the software that …

HPE’s earnings and outlook beat forecasts, but sales growth stalls

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Despite reporting better-than-expected earnings and raising its 2019 forecast Thursday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Friday saw its shares move sideways as investors digested some mixed results. Initially HPE’s stock rose more than 3 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after the veteran …

Talend shares surge 20% on strong cloud revenue growth

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Shares of Talend SA jumped surged nearly 14 percent in after-hours trading today on an unexpectedly narrower loss in its fiscal fourth quarter. The company also showed good progress in its March to the cloud, with sales of Talend Cloud reaching …

IBM brings Watson AI to any cloud

AI By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

With public cloud providers competing to be the favored destination for their customers’ artificial intelligence projects, IBM Corp. has decided to bring its Watson technology out from behind the Big Blue firewall for the first time. At its flagship Think 2019 conference …

Trust but verify: Machine learning’s magic masks hidden frailties

AI By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

The idea sounded good in theory: Rather than giving away full-boat scholarships, colleges could optimize their use of scholarship money to attract students willing to pay most of the tuition costs. So instead of offering a $20,000 scholarship to one needy student, …

Orange is the new gold: Telemarketing firm molds inmates into sales stars

POLICY By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Like many telemarketing professionals, Teresa Peterson works a nine-hour day, supporting a team of professionals working phones, building heat maps for her client’s account-based marketing program and staying on top of sales leads until deals are closed. But unlike most telemarketing professionals, …

Zillow awards $1M to winners of data science contest that drew 3,800 entrants

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Closing out a nearly two-year-long data science competition, Zillow Inc. awarded a $1 million prize Wednesday to a loosely federated group of three people who figured out how to beat its home price-estimating benchmark model by 13 percent. Zillow said the techniques …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

With major overhaul, VMware moves closer to ‘NSX everywhere’ ambitions

HPE’s earnings and outlook beat forecasts, but sales growth stalls

IBM brings Watson AI to any cloud

Trust but verify: Machine learning’s magic masks hidden frailties

Zillow awards $1M to winners of data science contest that drew 3,800 entrants

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