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

VMware earnings impress as packaged and international sales drive growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc.’s strategy shift from being a seller of individual virtualization products to becoming a more pervasive provider of packaged solutions shows no sign of slowing down. The company today reported fiscal first-quarter revenues of $2.01 billion, up 14 percent year-over-year and …

Maxta adds Red Hat support to ease container migration from VMware to OpenShift

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Hyperconverged infrastructure maker Maxta Inc. will support Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift Container Platform, giving users who want to migrate from VMware Inc. vSphere virtualized environment to Red Hat the ability to do so without disrupting their container environment. Containers are lightweight, self-contained environments that enable applications …

Salesforce crushes earnings estimates as diversification strategy pays dividends

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

The 2016 forecast by Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Marc Benioff (pictured) that his company would reach $20 billion in annual revenues by 2020 struck many people as pretty audacious at the time. Not anymore. With another blowout quarter under its belt and no …

Splunk beats earnings forecast, but stock sags on slower customer growth

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Splunk Inc. handily swept past Wall Street estimates on both revenue and profit in its fiscal first quarter, but a slowdown in new-customer acquisition didn’t sit well with investors, who knocked shares back more than 2 percent in after-hours trading. Revenue jumped …

MariaDB guns for Oracle with latest release of open-source database engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

MariaDB Corp. is openly targeting database kingpin Oracle Corp., releasing a new version of its open-source database today with features that have previously been available only in expensive proprietary products. The company said MariaDB TX 3.0 is the first enterprise open-source database to provide …

Okta ‘freemium’ offer makes its authentication service available to anyone

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Identity management software provider Okta Inc. is giving developers a free way to access its authentication service by exposing an application program interface they can use to layer security controls onto a single application automatically. The company also said today that it’s …

HPE’s fourth straight growth quarter signals turnaround, but investors aren’t buying it yet

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

In a boost to optimism that Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co.’s worst days are behind it, the company topped analysts’ estimates and its own guidance in its first quarter under new Chief Executive Antonio Neri and also raised its full-year revenue outlook. But thanks to a …

Cloudera courts data scientists with self-service workbench and collaboration features

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Cloudera Inc. is appealing to the hearts and minds of data scientists and data engineers with a series of new features and products intended to make them more organized and productive. The software the big-data company introduced today at the Strata conference in …

Pure Storage bests expectations, but stock tanks on weaker forecast

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Pure Storage Inc. today beat the high end of its revenue forecast for its fiscal first quarter but issued guidance that appeared to disappoint growth-hungry investors. The flash storage maker’s revenue rose 40 percent, to $255.9 million, over the same quarter a …

Boston startup aims to revolutionize public safety by tapping into IoT devices

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

The chaos that engulfs the scene of a mass shooting is often the gunman’s best friend. First responders lose precious minutes trying to determine the location of the shooter. In the scramble to get out the doors, some people tragically run into …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

VMware earnings impress as packaged and international sales drive growth

Maxta adds Red Hat support to ease container migration from VMware to OpenShift

Salesforce crushes earnings estimates as diversification strategy pays dividends

Splunk beats earnings forecast, but stock sags on slower customer growth

MariaDB guns for Oracle with latest release of open-source database engine

Okta ‘freemium’ offer makes its authentication service available to anyone

HPE’s fourth straight growth quarter signals turnaround, but investors aren’t buying it yet

Cloudera courts data scientists with self-service workbench and collaboration features

Pure Storage bests expectations, but stock tanks on weaker forecast

Boston startup aims to revolutionize public safety by tapping into IoT devices

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