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

Actian adds Apache Spark support to vector database on Hadoop

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Actian Corp. has added support for Apache Spark to its hybrid data management, analytics and integration platform. Actian Vector in Hadoop, known as VectorH, uses vector processing and multi-level in-memory acceleration to speed up performance of Hadoop data stores. The added support …

Syncsort quality manager aims to purify Hadoop data lakes

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Syncsort Inc. is extending the data quality features of the Trillium Software Inc. subsidiary it acquired last November to native Hadoop environments with Trillium Quality for Big Data. The offering combines Trillium’s data quality features with its Intelligent Execution data integration platform to enable …

Taking on GE, Hitachi rolls Pentaho and HDS into new unit targeting industrial IoT

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

In a business strategy move apparently aimed at industrial rival General Electric Co., Hitachi Ltd. has unified three of its business units into a single entity that will pursue business structured around data-driven initiatives and the Internet of Things. The company is …

ExtraHop adds 3D mapping for visualizing network-based threats

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Another networking provider is climbing into the security market. ExtraHop Networks Inc., maker of an appliance-based analytics platform for monitoring networks, is rolling out version 7.0 today. It features what it calls “Live Activity Maps,” which are three-dimensional representations of interactions within …

New database entrant TigerGraph boasts top speed, $31M in new funding

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

A graph database startup is unveiling its first product today with $31 million in new series A funding in its pocket. TigerGraph Inc., formerly known as GraphSQL Inc., said it has built the first native parallel graph database-based platform using proprietary technology that the …

Startup Netsil introduces ‘Google Maps of microservices applications’

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Startup Netsil Inc. is coming out of stealth mode today with a monitoring and visualization platform for cloud applications that enables DevOps teams to see all services and their dependencies on a network without the need for additional coding. Calling its service …

Aruba integrates machine learning into behavioral analytics-based security suite

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. subsidiary Aruba Networks is expanding its footprint in the security market with the announcement today of the Aruba 360 Secure Fabric, an analytics framework for attack detection and response. The software combines machine learning with existing products and new …

Fury over Equifax breach may finally shake enterprises out of cybersecurity stupor

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The Equifax Inc. hack may be the alarm bell that finally jolts Congress and large enterprises out of their somnambulance and forces them to do something meaningful about cybersecurity. At least that’s the hope of one of the computer industry’s largest trade …

Researcher says Equifax executives used ‘alarmingly simplistic’ passwords

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity professionals who lament senior executives’ lack of interest in threat protection will find little to cheer about in new findings released Friday by software security firm Comodo Group Inc. Researchers in the company’s Threat Intelligence Lab went to the dark web, …

Cloud surge drives strong Oracle earnings but outlook puts the brakes on shares

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Updated Friday Cloud revenue growth drove strong first-quarter earnings at Oracle Corp. with revenue of $9.2 billion and earnings per share of 62 cents both surpassing analyst expectations. But the database and business software giant’s guidance for the second quarter of its …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Actian adds Apache Spark support to vector database on Hadoop

Syncsort quality manager aims to purify Hadoop data lakes

Taking on GE, Hitachi rolls Pentaho and HDS into new unit targeting industrial IoT

ExtraHop adds 3D mapping for visualizing network-based threats

New database entrant TigerGraph boasts top speed, $31M in new funding

Startup Netsil introduces ‘Google Maps of microservices applications’

Aruba integrates machine learning into behavioral analytics-based security suite

Fury over Equifax breach may finally shake enterprises out of cybersecurity stupor

Researcher says Equifax executives used ‘alarmingly simplistic’ passwords

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