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

VMware growth accelerates as Amazon partnership pays on-premises dividends

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Between its struggles to build a public cloud presence and the perceived threat of containers to its virtualization empire, a lot of people have an waiting for VMware Inc. to hit a wall for the last couple of years. They’re going to have to wait a …

New CEO? No problem. Pure Storage beats forecasts and sees $1B in 2018 revenue

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Pure Storage Inc. didn’t miss a beat in its transition to a new chief executive, beating Wall Street earnings estimates and forecasting that it will turn a profit next quarter and become a $1 billion company next year. Three months after closing …

VMware and AWS tighten partnership to make cloud migration simpler

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Longtime rivals VMware Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. are looking even chummier these days as the companies expand their landmark partnership announced last year to make it easier for VMware customers to move their workloads easily to the Amazon cloud. Today at …

Cloudera rolls first application of its shared-data platform into beta test

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Cloudera Inc. is rolling out the first application built on top of the Altus platform as a service it introduced in May. Cloudera Altus Analytic DB, which will soon enter beta test, is a cloud-based data warehouse designed for self-service use that …

How big data made the ‘Paradise Papers’ revelations real

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

When more than 13 million secret documents detailing the offshore activities of some of the world’s most prominent people and organizations fall into a journalist’s lap, it presents an exciting dilemma. The data is potentially explosive, but how do you even extract …

HPE announces CEO Meg Whitman will step down, Antonio Neri will take over

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Following yet another disappointing quarter, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced that Chief Executive Meg Whitman will step down Feb. 1. The departure overshadowed mixed results for HPE’s fiscal fourth quarter and a weaker-than-expected outlook for the current quarter. Investors punished the shares, …

MapR unifies data streams, ratchets up security in new platform release

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies Inc. is rolling out a new version of its flagship Converged Data Platform, with a focus on DataOps, a variation on the DevOps rapid application development process that focuses on reducing time and improving the quality of results in data …

Woo plugs AI assistant into tech recruiting process

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Highr Pattern Ltd., which runs a recruiting site called Woo that matches employers with passive job seekers, is joining the artificial intelligence parade with an automated headhunter that automatically scouts, approaches and connects candidates with potential employers. The company said its “Helena” …

Survey finds business executives are quickly getting on board the AI train

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Big companies are notoriously slow to adopt new technology, but that isn’t how things are shaping up in the area of artificial intelligence, according to a new survey of nearly 500 business executives. The research, which was conducted by Harvard Business Review …

Comtrade broadens data protection scope for Nutanix environments

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Comtrade Software Inc. has boosted its Hyperconverged Uptime software for Nutanix Inc.’s Enterprise Cloud Platform. It now includes support for VMware Inc.’s ESX hypervisor along with improved support for Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange and SQL Server, combined disaster recovery and backup for remote office/back …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

VMware growth accelerates as Amazon partnership pays on-premises dividends

New CEO? No problem. Pure Storage beats forecasts and sees $1B in 2018 revenue

VMware and AWS tighten partnership to make cloud migration simpler

Cloudera rolls first application of its shared-data platform into beta test

How big data made the ‘Paradise Papers’ revelations real

HPE announces CEO Meg Whitman will step down, Antonio Neri will take over

MapR unifies data streams, ratchets up security in new platform release

Woo plugs AI assistant into tech recruiting process

Survey finds business executives are quickly getting on board the AI train

Comtrade broadens data protection scope for Nutanix environments

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