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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HPE rollouts underline multi-cloud integration plans | #HPEDiscover

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is joining the parade of enterprise technology vendors trying to simplify customers’ move to hybrid cloud. After a tumultuous year in which the pre-split HP first declared its intention to become a major infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) vendor and then backed off that strategy, a rejuvenated HPE is going full bore toward hybrid ...

Atlassian lets users ask “what if?”

Collaborative software development vendor Atlassian Corp. PLC is adding what-if modeling to its Portfolio for JIRA portfolio management system and tightening integration between the portfolio manager and its flagship JIRA software tracking and project management system in a new release announced today. Version 2.0 of Portfolio enables managers to plan and forecast release dates and ...

SIOS rolls SQL Server support into VMware management suite

SIOS Technology Corp. is giving system administrators in big SQL Server shops reason to smile in release 3.7 of its SIOS iQ machine learning analytics software for managing VMware Inc. environments. SIOS iQ is an agentless machine learning analytics platform for IT operations information and issue resolution. The addition of SQL Server support comes through integration with ...

Helpshift takes in $23M to build out mobile support technology

Helpshift Inc. raised a $23 million series B funding round for its in-app customer service technology , bringing total capital raised to $36.2 million. Participants in the new round include Microsoft Ventures Inc., Salesforce Ventures, and all previously existing investors, including Intel Capital Corp., Nexus Venture Partners, True Ventures and Visionnaire Ventures. The company said it ...

#SparkSummit West 2016 preview: The power of 2.0

Spark Summit West kicks off in San Francisco today, and you can bet the buzz will be all about Spark 2.0. DataBricks Inc., the principal curator of Spark, was impeccable in its timing, announcing the successor to the current version 1.6 just three weeks ago after teasing it for three months. DataBricks may be looking ...

ServiceNow extends growing security arm with BrightPoint buy

Cloud workflow powerhouse ServiceNow Inc. is wasting no time in expanding its footprint in its newest market: computer security. Barely three months after announcing the expansion of its platform into security operations, the company said it has acquired BrightPoint Security Inc. for an undisclosed sum. BrightPoint provides threat intelligence by combining information from multiple external ...

Wikibon sees more big data projects moving cloud-ward

Big data projects are ready to move to the cloud on a large scale, but a host of concerns about regulations, ownership and the structural impediments of moving large amounts of data off-site will limit mass adoption of public cloud platforms, says a new Wikibon report. The market for big data in the public cloud ...

SS8 brings law enforcement-style forensics to the enterprise

SS8 Networks Inc., a company whose clients until now have mainly been limited to telecommunications firms, intelligence agencies and law enforcement organizations, is bringing its breach detection technology to enterprises with a platform that uses a “time machine” approach to sniff out intrusions by comparing patterns to a vast database of past activity. The company ...

SignalFx spiffs up analytics-based monitor for complex systems

SignalFx Inc., a startup that claims to have a radical new approach to system monitoring in the age of containers and micro services, is enhancing its core platform with new features to better detect anomalies in complex infrastructure. The venture-backed company, which emerged from stealth about a year ago, is applying big data analytics principles ...

Colorado builds childcare-rating system on Salesforce.com – really

With more than 9,000 early childhood care and development facilities spread across the state, the Colorado Department of Human Services Office of Early Childhood has its hands full keeping track of the places and people responsible for the welfare of the state’s most vulnerable residents. The task was made no easier by the fragmented state of the ...