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

Workday beats estimates, raises forecasts – and its stock falls

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Workday Inc. today continued a dubious string of quarters in which it beat Wall Street analysts estimates only to see its shares fall. The maker of cloud-based human capital management and enterprise financial software reported fiscal second-quarter revenues of $671.1 million, up nearly …

Google infrastructure chief Urs Hölzle: This is the future of software and the cloud

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Urs Hölzle knows a thing or two about the rapid evolution of data centers and the infrastructure behind them. As a Google Fellow and senior vice president of technical infrastructure, he has helped define that evolution over the past couple of decades …

Inside Experian’s journey to the virtual data center

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Credit reporting giant Experian Corp. is in the process of moving most of its data processing outside the four walls of the data center. In a recent conversation, Experian Chief Information Officer Barry Libenson explained the reasoning and the payoff. This is …

HPE recovery continues with strong results in high-growth markets

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Things are up and to the right again at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. as the big computing vendor reported fiscal third-quarter results that easily beat analyst estimates and its own forecasts. Net revenue rose 4 percent, to $7.8 billion, from the prior-year period, …

VMware doubles down on Windows 10 integration with spruced-up Workspace One endpoint manager

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. has tightened integration with personal computers from its Dell Technologies Inc. corporate parent and boosted Windows 10 support in a new release Monday of its Workspace One endpoint management suite. Enhanced Windows 10 support is primarily in the area of security. …

The future of the data center: The walls come tumbling down

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

The developers at credit reporting giant Experian plc write code without any idea whether it will ultimately run inside the company’s data centers, a rented space known a colocation center, in the cloud — or all three. And that suits Chief Information …

VMware earnings again defy gravity, but its stock falls anyway

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Continuing to defy predictions that its core computing virtualization product is headed for decline, VMware Inc. reported fiscal second-quarter earnings today that beat expectations for both revenue and earnings per share. The Palo Alto, California-based company also raised its third-quarter and full-year …

Hortonworks boosts streaming data support with Kafka integration

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Hortonworks Inc. today added improved support for Apache Kafka to its Hortonworks DataPlane Service, underlining the growing importance of streaming sources to its big-data customers. Launched about a year ago, DPS is a cloud offering for combining all types of data in …

Pure Storage shares rocket 14% after solid earnings and first acquisition

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Everything came together today for Pure Storage Inc. In its fiscal second quarter reported today, the maker of all-flash-memory storage devices said its customers’ accelerating move to flash storage combined with stabilization in component pricing helped the company beat its revenue and …

JetStream’s VMware-blessed data protection platform bypasses snapshots and agents

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

JetStream Software Inc. today debuted a continuous replication platform for the VMware Inc. vSphere virtualization environment, saying it’s the first data protection product of its kind to be endorsed by VMware. The company, which was founded by the same team that started FlashSoft …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Workday beats estimates, raises forecasts – and its stock falls

HPE recovery continues with strong results in high-growth markets

VMware doubles down on Windows 10 integration with spruced-up Workspace One endpoint manager

VMware earnings again defy gravity, but its stock falls anyway

Hortonworks boosts streaming data support with Kafka integration

Pure Storage shares rocket 14% after solid earnings and first acquisition

JetStream’s VMware-blessed data protection platform bypasses snapshots and agents

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