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

IBM boosts data scientists with certification and apprenticeship program

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is attempting to give the data science profession a boost by championing a new certification and launching an internal apprenticeship program today that gives young people with no information technology experience a chance to become professional data scientists. The U.S. …

SAP tops revenue forecast but will cut 4,400 jobs in cloud-driven restructuring

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Beating fourth-quarter revenue expectations, software giant SAP SE nonetheless announced its first restructuring in four years as it adjusts its skill base in anticipation of a growing shift to the cloud. SAP said the restructuring will reduce its workforce by about 4,400 …

Complexity concerns rain on the multicloud parade

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Gary Lamb remembers working on one cloud computing migration project so tricky that it was never completed. It’s an object lesson on how the seemingly boundless promise of the cloud can get mired in earthly concerns. The government agency attempting the migration was …

Machine learning anchors AppDynamics’ ‘central nervous system’ monitoring vision

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Cisco Systems Inc.’s AppDynamics subsidiary is broadening its monitoring scope and folding machine learning into its technology in a campaign aimed at bringing more automation to complex multicloud environments. The company, which Cisco swooped in to acquire two years ago just hours before …

MariaDB merges transactional, analytical databases and debuts first managed service

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Open-source database provider MariaDB Corp. is combining its transactional and analytical databases into a single unit and launching a managed service supporting public and hybrid cloud deployments. The new MariaDB Platform X3 announced today merges the company’s MariaDB TX and MariaDB AX offerings …

OneLogin snares $100M in late-stage funding for its integrated identity management platform

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Cloud identity management vendor OneLogin Inc. today announced a late-stage $100 million venture capital investment round, bringing its total funding to more than $172 million. Chief Executive Brad Brooks (pictured) said he hopes the new Series D round will give the company …

Fear of disruption is driving growth in big-data investments

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Organizations are upping their investment in big-data and artificial intelligence initiatives, driven by fear of disruption more than a quest for operational efficiency. That’s according to a just-released NewVantage Partners LLC survey of Fortune 1,000 companies, most of which are in the …

2019 security forecast: Cloudy and unsettled, with a chance of gloom

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Back in April we asked 22 security experts whether we’re winning or losing the war against cybercriminals, and the consensus was almost unanimously negative. Not much has changed since then, and even the growing promise of artificial intelligence as a weapon has …

The 2019 forecast for cloud computing: Up the value chain they go

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

The year just concluded may end up being remembered as the one in which the final barriers to widespread cloud adoption fell. Finally convinced that concerns about security and stability were more perception than reality, chief information officers flocked to cloud platforms with …

Stormy weather: To stop cloud giants, some open-source software firms limit licenses

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

A heated debate has erupted in the open-source software world that’s pitting startups against cloud computing giants. The furor concerns, of all things, new licensing terms, which software companies are adopting to thwart what they believe is unfair competition from cloud providers …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

IBM boosts data scientists with certification and apprenticeship program

SAP tops revenue forecast but will cut 4,400 jobs in cloud-driven restructuring

MariaDB merges transactional, analytical databases and debuts first managed service

OneLogin snares $100M in late-stage funding for its integrated identity management platform

Fear of disruption is driving growth in big-data investments

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