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.

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LinkedIn quickens pace of Sales Navigator enhancements

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn subsidiary is picking up the pace of enhancements to its Sales Navigator lead development and nurturing software with the second set of major enhancements in less than four months. In addition, the company today added five new vendors to the …

MarkLogic slips data integration features into latest NoSQL release

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

MarkLogic Corp. is strengthening data integration features, enhancing security and improving workload management capabilities via support for containers in the first major new release of its namesake NoSQL database management system since the debut of version 9.0 two years ago. The company, …

As GDPR deadline looms, executives turn positive on its potential

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Fear and loathing about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is apparently giving way to cautious optimism as organizations prepare for the new laws to take effect a week from Friday. A new IBM Corp. survey released today finds that executive opinions toward …

Surprise! Converged systems are now cheaper to buy and run than hand-rolled solutions

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Information technology organizations should abandon their traditional “roll your own” practices in favor of converged and hyperconverged systems from a handful of providers for transaction-intensive workloads. That’s the conclusion of a new cost-of-ownership report and detailed analysis by Wikibon, a sister company of SiliconANGLE. Wikibon …

Talend shares temporarily tank as an early investor cashes in

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Investors appeared to take Talend SA’s narrow earnings miss Thursday uncharacteristically hard, but it turns out the reason had little to do with its earnings report. The data integration company reported a first-quarter loss of 19 cents per share, a penny worse …

Solid earnings report underlines Hortonworks’ stability, but stock falls

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Hortonworks Inc. beat Wall Street expectations on both revenues and profits in its first quarter and guided expectations higher for both its current quarter and the full year. Revenue jumped 41 percent from a year ago, to $79.1 million, ahead of analysts’ …

ThoughtSpot snags $145M in bid to challenge data analytics heavyweights

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

ThoughtSpot Inc. took a big step forward in its bid to shake up the data analytics market with the closing of an oversubscribed $145 million Series D funding round announced today. The company has now raised $306 million in its bid to challenge …

Talend takes streaming integration to the cloud with free AWS app

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Data integration company Talend SA is quickening its march to the cloud with a free application for use in Amazon Web Services Inc. environments. Talend Data Streams is intended to simplify and speed the ingestion of large volumes of real-time data on a self-service basis. …

IBM, Red Hat tighten private cloud alliance with improved container support

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is expanding its commitment to move large swaths of its software portfolio to application containers while tightening its relationship with Red Hat Inc. In an announcement to be made at Red Hat Summit Tuesday, IBM said it will extend its recently …

Tableau misses profit forecast, but rocketing subscription sales cheer investors

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Tableau Software Inc. today provided the strongest evidence yet that its shift from a software license model to subscription pricing is bearing fruit. Its first-quarter revenue of $224 million beat Wall Street’s estimates as well as the company’s own guidance, sending shares …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

MarkLogic slips data integration features into latest NoSQL release

As GDPR deadline looms, executives turn positive on its potential

Talend shares temporarily tank as an early investor cashes in

Solid earnings report underlines Hortonworks’ stability, but stock falls

ThoughtSpot snags $145M in bid to challenge data analytics heavyweights

Talend takes streaming integration to the cloud with free AWS app

IBM, Red Hat tighten private cloud alliance with improved container support

Tableau misses profit forecast, but rocketing subscription sales cheer investors

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