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

Survey: Fear of disruption drives executives’ embrace of big-data projects

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Top executives are doing more than just paying lip service to the idea that data is a strategic asset, but whether they’re doing so out of ambition or fear is an open question. That’s according to the sixth annual study of 60 senior …

Security forecast: hot, with a possibility of severe storms

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

It was another year of frustration for enterprise security organizations as attackers continued to penetrate high-profile organizations and steal massive amounts of personal information, headlined by the 143 million records pilfered in the Equifax Inc. breach. Big data analytics and machine learning …

Wait for it: the most overhyped technologies of 2017

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

As we waited to hop into our self-driving car where we could lean back, put on a headset and enjoy some virtual reality entertainment, it occurred to us that there might be some flaws in the blockchain-based service we’d used to order …

Big winners of 2017: The tech gets smarter and the rich get richer

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

In a year in which the Nasdaq hit an all-time high, venture capital dollars flowed like cheap champagne and the majority of earnings surprises were on the upside, there were plenty of winners. These companies and technologies stood out for the scope of their …

Red Hat’s strong results fail to impress Scrooge-ish investors

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. perhaps thought it was playing Santa Claus this afternoon with fiscal third-quarter profit and revenue that eclipsed Wall Street expectations. But investors were apparently in a Scrooge-like mood, bidding the open-source software company’s shares down nearly 4 percent in …

Forecast for infrastructure as a service: cloudy and unsettled

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Could anyone have predicted Uber would lose its founding CEO or the price of bitcoin would jump 20fold over the course of 2017? No doubt 2018 will be just as unpredictable, as a huge range of tech trends from the cloud and …

Adobe’s strong quarter underlines stability of its cloud-first model

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Six years after shaking up the software world by announcing that it would abandon shrink-wrapped box sales in favor of cloud subscriptions, Adobe Systems Inc. continues to provide evidence of the wisdom of that strategy. The maker of such design-world mainstays as Illustrator, …

MindTickle snags $27M to mint smarter sales reps

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

MindTickle Inc. has raised $27 million to accelerate the development of its sales enablement platform and take it worldwide. The Series B round, which was led by Canaan Partners with participation from Accel, New Enterprise Associates Inc. and Qualcomm Ventures, brings the …

Datical cozies up to Pivotal for synchronized database updates

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Datical Inc., which makes software that automates the release of databases in sync with applications, is teaming up with Pivotal Software Inc. to make it easier for users of Pivotal’s DevOps-oriented Concourse continuous development platform to use Datical services. Datical manages application database …

Instana scores $20M for its machine learning-based performance management

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Two months after releasing its artificial intelligence-based microservices management service, Instana Inc. has secured a $20 million funding round led by Accel (formerly Accel Partners). The Series B round brings total funding to $27 million for the company, which was founded in …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Survey: Fear of disruption drives executives’ embrace of big-data projects

Wait for it: the most overhyped technologies of 2017

Big winners of 2017: The tech gets smarter and the rich get richer

Red Hat’s strong results fail to impress Scrooge-ish investors

Forecast for infrastructure as a service: cloudy and unsettled

Adobe’s strong quarter underlines stability of its cloud-first model

MindTickle snags $27M to mint smarter sales reps

Datical cozies up to Pivotal for synchronized database updates

Instana scores $20M for its machine learning-based performance management

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