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

Looker overhauls core platform with new apps and data sources

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Business intelligence company Looker Data Sciences Inc. will use its Join user conference today to announce a major overhaul of its core platform, including the addition of functional applications and new visualizations. The company, which raised a huge $81 million funding round in March, has …

IBM refreshes Linux mainframes with security optimized for software containers

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Continuing its quest to find relevance for big iron in the age of open systems, IBM Corp. today is announcing a new generation of its LinuxONE mainframes with built-in security for Docker containers and support for Kubernetes orchestration. The announcement comes just …

Data Artisans offers smoother on-ramp to stream processing with Apache Flink

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Organizations that want to implement stream processing are about to get another boost with a new release of the commercial version of Apache Flink from data Artisans GmbH, a company founded by Flink’s creators. Apache Flink was created to replace the MapReduce …

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

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Dell reports solid quarter despite continued weakness in storage sales

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 …

HPE posts strong earnings, but investors are still doubtful

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 …

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

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 …

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

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Workday sales surge on strength of cloud financial applications

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Syncsort dives into capacity management with Metron purchase

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Looker overhauls core platform with new apps and data sources

IBM refreshes Linux mainframes with security optimized for software containers

Data Artisans offers smoother on-ramp to stream processing with Apache Flink

Dell reports solid quarter despite continued weakness in storage sales

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

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

Workday sales surge on strength of cloud financial applications

Syncsort dives into capacity management with Metron purchase

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