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

Bracket says it can head off attacks operating systems don’t see

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Bracket Computing Inc. has upped the ante in its security software suite with new protections against a variety of difficult-to-detect attacks. The new feature set, called Server Guard, is part of a workload isolation technology the company calls Metavisor. Similar to a …

Jitterbit banks $25 million investment as API frenzy continues

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Application program interface orchestration startup Jitterbit Inc. today said it raised $25 million to boost sales and services as well as to strengthen its international presence. The Series C funding round was led by global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which led the …

HPE debuts modular Superdome successor for in-memory computing

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is giving its Superdome in-memory computing platform its first major upgrade in nearly three years with a modular edition that enables customers to start small and scale up to 48 terabytes of memory in a single system. The …

Riverbed broadly enhances SteelCentral SD-WAN performance monitor

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Software-defined wide-area network provider Riverbed Technology Inc. has enhanced its Riverbed SteelCentral network performance monitor with better information, improved analytics support and support for containers. The company also announced an alliance with Zscaler Inc. to deliver a secure cloud-based service aimed at branch …

As earnings beat forecast, Hortonworks says it’s about to hit cash-flow breakeven

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Hortonworks Inc. today beat analysts’ estimates on both revenue and profit in its third quarter, providing further evidence that its pure-play open source business model is gaining traction. The company also raised revenue guidance for the fourth quarter and the year. Investors chose …

Alibaba Group leads $27M funding round for MariaDB

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

MariaDB Corp., the most recent company to make a case for a profitable open-source business model, today announced a vote of confidence in the form of a $27 million investment led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Also participating were existing investors Intel Capital …

Security startup silences chatty networks to thwart attacks

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The internet was never designed to be secure, a fact that has given information technology organizations fits for more than 20 years. The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol behind the internet assumes a high level of trust for devices that are on an …

Application container-friendly Pentaho 8 gets native Kafka support

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The Hitachi Vantara subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. has added support for Apache Kafka streaming data in version 8 of its Pentaho data integration and analytics software. The move, announced on Oct. 26, extends the company’s embrace of the open-source ecosystem building around Apache Spark and its …

ServiceNow beats forecasts, but slowing growth rate unsettles investors

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

ServiceNow Inc. beat forecasts on quarterly revenue and profit, but a weaker-than-expected forecast for subscription revenues spooked investors, who knocked the stock back about 4 percent in after-hours trading. The maker of cloud-based workflow automation and service management software maintained its historically …

Segment enables marketers to target audiences of one

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Data segmentation and analytics firm Segment.io Inc. is giving its customers the ability to synthesize large amounts of customer data into individual profiles that can be used for personalization. The feature, called Personas, establishes a central record of an organization’s entire relationship …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Bracket says it can head off attacks operating systems don’t see

Jitterbit banks $25 million investment as API frenzy continues

HPE debuts modular Superdome successor for in-memory computing

Riverbed broadly enhances SteelCentral SD-WAN performance monitor

As earnings beat forecast, Hortonworks says it’s about to hit cash-flow breakeven

Alibaba Group leads $27M funding round for MariaDB

Security startup silences chatty networks to thwart attacks

Application container-friendly Pentaho 8 gets native Kafka support

ServiceNow beats forecasts, but slowing growth rate unsettles investors

Segment enables marketers to target audiences of one

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