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

Nutanix to acquire Netsil in bid to solve container complexity conundrum

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Nutanix Inc. is continuing to expand beyond its roots in hyperconverged infrastructure, which uses software to combine computing, storage and networking in one unit, with an agreement today to buy Netsil Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Netsil makes a monitoring and visualization platform for …

Dell reports solid growth despite continuing storage struggles

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Despite weak storage growth, Dell Technologies Inc.’s overall business picture continued to strengthen in its fourth fiscal quarter thanks to a record year for its servers and networking gear. The computing and storage giant today reported revenue growth that outpaced expenses as …

AtScale’s universal business intelligence layer adds support for data lakes

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

AtScale Inc. today updated its business intelligence abstraction platform with support for data lakes of any size and simpler migration of analytics workloads across business intelligence tools. The company said AtScale 6.5 enables users of BI tools to share queries freely with each other, …

MapR CEO John Schroeder: ‘We’re still in big data’s early innings’

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. was one of the three high-profile startups — along with Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. — to burst upon the scene during the feeding frenzy a few years ago around Hadoop, the open-source big-data software framework. Like its counterparts, …

Big data transformed the world. Now it’s getting down to business

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

When the data scientists at messaging software maker Synchronoss Technologies Inc. embarked upon a new project in 2014 to store, manage and extract insights from the massive amounts of data produced in their business, they thought they had found the answer to …

Cloudera simplifies data sharing in complex cloud analytics scenarios

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Cloudera Inc. is continuing its push into cloud analytics with enhancements to its Altus platform as a service that provide a shared data catalog and contextual consistency to data coming from multiple sources. The Palo Alto, California-based company said the new features …

MapR bids to take containers mainstream with support for Kubernetes and more

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. is stepping up support for containers with a new feature of its Converged Data Platform that provides for persistent storage and enables the use of stateful containerized applications in an automated, cross-platform environment. MapR Data Fabric for Kubernetes is …

Waterline targets data-discovery tool at organizations confronting GDPR deadline

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

With the May 25 implementation date for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation looming, Waterline Data Inc. today is unveiling the Waterline Data Discovery Platform, a data discovery tool that the company saids can dramatically accelerate the process of identifying and …

Dell reverse-merger report overshadows upbeat VMware earnings

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. beat forecasts for its fiscal fourth-quarter results, but the news did nothing to ease the beating the stock took today. That’s because of news earlier today that Dell Technologies Inc. had filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission …

Citing acceleration in demand, Salesforce.com beats earnings estimates

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

With competitors from Microsoft Corp. to Oracle Corp. training their guns on Salesforce.com Inc.’s core customer relationship management business, many market watchers have been wondering when the company’s torrid growth rate will slow. They’re still wondering. The CRM giant once again topped …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Nutanix to acquire Netsil in bid to solve container complexity conundrum

Dell reports solid growth despite continuing storage struggles

AtScale’s universal business intelligence layer adds support for data lakes

MapR CEO John Schroeder: ‘We’re still in big data’s early innings’

Big data transformed the world. Now it’s getting down to business

Cloudera simplifies data sharing in complex cloud analytics scenarios

MapR bids to take containers mainstream with support for Kubernetes and more

Dell reverse-merger report overshadows upbeat VMware earnings

Citing acceleration in demand, Salesforce.com beats earnings estimates

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