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

Hortonworks streaming analytics platform gets better flow management and governance

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Hortonworks Inc. today brushed up its Hortonworks DataFlow streaming analytics platform with improved support for complex processes and the ability to share and publish data flows directly to production. HDF is an open-source toolset that combines governance, security and management for applications involving real-time …

Microsoft delivers another solid quarter as cloud revenue nearly doubles – again

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The $6.3 billion quarterly loss that Microsoft Corp. announced today briefly spooked investors, who sent shares down nearly 3 percent in immediate after-hours trading, but concerns quickly eased on assurances that the loss was thanks to a onetime $13 billion charge triggered …

Customers drive $48M funding round for data transformation startup Trifacta

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Data transformation startup Trifacta Inc. today said it has raised $48 million in new financing from a group that includes several customers. The seven-year-old firm, which bills itself as a provider of tools for “data wrangling,” or wrestling messy data into usable form, …

Amid slowing growth, SAP buys Callidus to boost push into the cloud

APPS By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

SAP SE met revenue and profit expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter but saw a continued slowdown in growth in both cloud subscriptions and overall revenue. Shortly before releasing its results this morning, the enterprise resource planning giant also announced plans to acquire …

Western Digital beats street but stock falls on growth concerns

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Western Digital Corp. easily topped analysts’ revenue and profit estimates for its fiscal second quarter today, and it even raised guidance for the current quarter and full year thanks to strong demand spurred by data center growth. But it wasn’t enough for …

Dell enterprise group shakeup aimed at boosting sagging storage sales

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Dell Technologies Inc. is shaking up its Infrastructure Solutions Group with a series of organizational changes that boost the influence of Dell veterans at the expense of executives who came over with the computer giant’s 2016 acquisition of EMC Corp. Just four months …

Ransomware attacks decline as cybercriminals turn their attention to cryptomining

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

First the good news: Ransomware attacks are on the decline. But there’s plenty of bad news as well. The volume of malware that security researchers are finding in the wild has risen dramatically. Cybercriminals are targeting cryptocurrency wallets and hijacking computers to …

Apache Arrow-based self-service analytics startup Dremio hauls in $25M

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Self-service data analytics startup Dremio Corp. today said it has closed a $25 million funding round to build and market the Apache Arrow-based platform that the company says can democratize access to big-data repositories. The Series B round brings Dremio’s total funding to …

Unravel Data banks $15M to improve big data application management

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Unravel Data Systems Inc., which manages application performance in big data environments, has raised $15 million in a financing led by GGV Capital. The Series B round, joined by Microsoft Ventures Inc. and Menlo Ventures, brings the total raised to $23 million. The company, which …

3D printing enables a faucet maker to imagine the impossible

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Bill McKeone has designed thousands of kitchen and bath fixtures and amassed more than 625 patents over 30 years, but until recently he was frustrated in his goal to create the perfect bathroom faucet. Like many industrial designers, his creations have always …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Hortonworks streaming analytics platform gets better flow management and governance

Microsoft delivers another solid quarter as cloud revenue nearly doubles – again

Customers drive $48M funding round for data transformation startup Trifacta

Amid slowing growth, SAP buys Callidus to boost push into the cloud

Western Digital beats street but stock falls on growth concerns

Dell enterprise group shakeup aimed at boosting sagging storage sales

Ransomware attacks decline as cybercriminals turn their attention to cryptomining

Apache Arrow-based self-service analytics startup Dremio hauls in $25M

Unravel Data banks $15M to improve big data application management

3D printing enables a faucet maker to imagine the impossible

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