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

Talend shares plunge 35% on weak guidance, plans to buy data prep company

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Data integration software provider Talend SA slightly beat Wall Street earnings estimates for its fiscal third quarter on revenue that matched analysts’ forecasts, but the news wasn’t all good today. The company also issued fourth-quarter guidance that was slightly below consensus …

MapR targets big-data rivals’ merger with free migration assessment

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. is betting that the impending merger of big-data rivals Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. will mire those companies in so much organizational minutia that customers will be open to making a switch. MapR is the sole surviving independent member …

Special Report: Kubernetes orchestrates a mass movement to the cloud

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Bloomberg L.P. may be best known for its news service and ubiquitous stock trader terminals, but more than a quarter of its 19,000 employees are software engineers and technologists who turn out thousands of custom applications each year to help Bloomberg customers …

Graph databases get a boost as market leader Neo4j raises $80M

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Graph database maker Neo4j Inc. said today it has raised an $80 million late-stage funding round, doubling the company’s total venture capital investment to $160 million and making it the best-funded startup in its market. The company said it will use the funds …

Nutanix takes its multicloud manager to the on-premises data center

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

In a nod to the popularity of hybrid cloud architectures, Nutanix Inc. is taking its Beam multicloud governance and management software into the data center. The San Jose, California-based company today announced that the service it debuted in May for Nutanix cloud instances …

Dremio expands scope and boosts speed of its Apache Arrow-based analytics engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Dremio Corp. is adding a data catalog to its self-service data analytics platform in a major release announced today. The company is also incorporating new controls for multitenant deployments, boosting end-to-end data encryption, offering options to run inside software containers and adopting Gandiva, …

Microsoft shrugs off market swoon thanks to success of its hybrid cloud strategy

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Microsoft Corp. capped off a no-good awful day on Wall Street with a happy ending, reporting earnings that handily beat analyst estimates. On a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 600 points and the Nasdaq skidded nearly …

An elevator maker reveals the ups and downs of digital transformation

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

A list of the 10 large companies that have most successfully transformed their businesses through technology published in the Harvard Business Review last year included many of the usual suspects – and one that many people probably wouldn’t even recognize. Thyssenkrupp AG, …

SAP cloud sales surge, but profit squeeze knocks back shares

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Strong growth in cloud sales led SAP SE to raise its full-year revenue and profit projections for the third time this year, but third-quarter profits missed analyst estimates, prompting a selloff in its shares today. SAP stock dropped nearly 7 percent in …

IBM surprises investors with quarterly revenue decline

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Wall Street threw a party today, but IBM Corp. ended up with the hangover. On a day when the Dow Jones soared more than 500 points, IBM shares fell more than 4 percent in immediate after-hours trading on fiscal second-quarter earnings results …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Special Report: Kubernetes orchestrates a mass movement to the cloud

Nutanix takes its multicloud manager to the on-premises data center

Dremio expands scope and boosts speed of its Apache Arrow-based analytics engine

An elevator maker reveals the ups and downs of digital transformation

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