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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Streamlio bundles open-source projects into real-time streaming engine for enterprises

Startup Streamlio Inc. is betting that organizations are ready for real-time streaming architectures to process their basic data needs, and now it has brought three of the latest open-source technologies to bear on the process. The company’s new real-time analytics suite incorporates the Apache Pulsar publish-and-subscribe engine with Heron, a real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine originally developed at Twitter ...

Dell reports solid quarter despite continued weakness in storage sales

Dell Technologies Inc. slipped to a loss in the second fiscal quarter of 2018 and said enterprise storage revenues undershot targets, but investors seemed largely unfazed, boosting the stock about a half-percentage point in early New York Stock Exchange trading. Consolidated revenue rose 48 percent from a year ago, to $19.3 billion, and gross margins ...

HPE posts strong earnings, but investors are still doubtful

Updated Wednesday Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. finally gave investors something to smile about after a string of disappointing earnings results, handily beating revenue and earnings per share targets and finally showing some year-over-year revenue growth for its fiscal third quarter. Investors rewarded the company with a nearly 5 percent boost in its share price in ...

AI researchers answer 169-year-old chess puzzle: ‘It can’t be done’

Chess aficionados know that the game is one of exponential complexity. The first three moves yield more than 9 million possible board positions and there are nearly 319 billion possible ways to play the first four moves on both sides. That makes solving chess problems unimaginably difficult. That’s one reason the game has long captured ...

Surge in big enterprise deals drives Nutanix toward $1B in annual revenue

Investors who might have wondered whether Nutanix Inc.’s solid earnings report in its previous quarter was a one-hit wonder are breathing easier this evening. The maker of hyperconverged systems and software today said it handily beat revenue and earnings estimates in its fiscal fourth quarter on a surge in large deals. Investors bid shares up more ...

Workday sales surge on strength of cloud financial applications

Thanks to strong growth in new and renewing customers, Workday Inc. today easily exceeded revenue estimates for the fiscal second quarter and raised guidance for the remainder of the year. But investors who have already watched shares rise more than 62 percent this year apparently wanted even more. Workday stock rose less than half a ...

Syncsort dives into capacity management with Metron purchase

Seeking to expand both its range of products and platforms, Syncsort Inc. has acquired Metron Technology, Ltd., a Taunton, U.K.-based provider of capacity management software that specializes in forecasting, modeling and planning complex systems, for an undisclosed amount. Capacity planning has become a more complex and analytics-driven discipline with the addition of new variables like ...

VMware broadens endpoint management support with Workspace ONE enhancements

VMware Inc. today said it has broadened platform support in its Workspace ONE endpoint management suite to now include Windows, MacOS, Chrome OS, iOS and Android. Workspace ONE will also now integrate application programming interfaces from major endpoint platform providers to stay current with updates and new versions. Workspace ONE provides a single platform for ...

Dell EMC tightens VMware integration with new hyperconverged and data protection platforms

Dell Technologies Inc.’s Dell EMC subsidiary is using the VMworld conference in Las Vegas this week to refresh its hyperconverged infrastructure lineup, with an aim to support VMware Inc. customers. It’s also adding a data protection service for customers with very large backup and recovery needs. New HCI platforms include a speedier version of the company’s ...

VMware officially lands on AWS cloud with new management and security features

Nearly a year after signing a landmark deal to bring its software-defined data center technology to the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud, VMware Inc. kicked off its VMworld conference in Las Vegas today with the news that VMware Cloud on AWS is now generally available. The service essentially enables the vast majority of companies that ...