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

Datrium steps up furious pace of its hyperconverged software releases

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Datrium Inc., which makes a scalable hyperconverged platform with built-in backup and disaster recovery features, today released version 4.0 of its DVX operating software, its third major release in less than a year. The new version supports Oracle Corp.’s Real Application Clusters, provides …

JetStream debuts with promise of painless cross-cloud workload migration

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Startup JetStream Software Inc. is emerging from stealth mode today with a cross-cloud data management platform that it says enables organizations to move workloads between on-premises and cloud platforms with zero downtime and near-real-time replication. The company is targeting second-tier cloud service …

Oracle puts GPU-powered bare-metal servers in the cloud

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. is expanding its bare-metal-computing-in-the-cloud offerings with a service that incorporates Nvidia Corp.’s Tesla graphics processing unit chips. The platform, announced Tuesday, is intended primarily for organizations that need high-performance computing capacity for artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning projects. …

Comtrade becomes HYCU and makes migration to Nutanix platform easier

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Comtrade Software Inc., which has bet its business on the Nutanix Inc. hyperconverged platform, has spun off from its corporate parent and rebranded itself with the name of its flagship data protection software. The new HYCU Inc. also announced new features that support …

Oracle’s victory over Google in Java copyright case may rewrite the rules of software

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp.’s latest victory in its eight-year-old copyright infringement lawsuit against Google LLC could fundamentally rewrite the rules of software development if today’s ruling withstands a possible appeal by the search giant. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit earlier today …

Survey finds few organizations have reached big data’s promised land

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

A survey of organizations using big data has found that only a tiny minority have achieved transformational business value, while most are still at the tire-kicking stage. The survey of 5,600 respondents at 429 companies also found that most organizations think they’re …

MariaDB hints at cloud plans with purchase of MammothDB analytics engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

MariaDB Corp. has acquired Sofia, Bulgaria-based enterprise analytics developer MammothDB EOOD for an undisclosed sum, saying the move will further the company’s push into the European market and enhance its new analytics database with advanced features and cloud delivery. The purchase is primarily …

How to solve those really hard data science problems? Throw a contest!

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

As the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament nears its climax over the next two weeks, data scientists around the world will be watching to see if their predictive algorithms survived the upsets that characterize the annual tourney. The winners will get bragging …

Elephant in the room: Hortonworks CEO thinks Hadoop software will keep driving big data

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Since its founding in 2011, Hortonworks Inc. has fought battles on two fronts: Persuade corporations to adopt an entirely new, open-source data platform called Hadoop for a novel type of analytic processing and build a business selling software that customers can get …

AI anchors new HPE server and prescriptive maintenance service

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

One week after IBM Corp. previewed its currently running Think 2018 conference with a series of artificial intelligence-related announcements, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. is following with its own take on the hottest trend in information technology. The company today announced hardware, vertical-market software and training …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Datrium steps up furious pace of its hyperconverged software releases

Oracle puts GPU-powered bare-metal servers in the cloud

Comtrade becomes HYCU and makes migration to Nutanix platform easier

Oracle’s victory over Google in Java copyright case may rewrite the rules of software

Survey finds few organizations have reached big data’s promised land

MariaDB hints at cloud plans with purchase of MammothDB analytics engine

How to solve those really hard data science problems? Throw a contest!

Elephant in the room: Hortonworks CEO thinks Hadoop software will keep driving big data

AI anchors new HPE server and prescriptive maintenance service

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