Paul Gillin, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Moving to the cloud is way harder than it looks. Here’s how five pioneers did it

By Paul Gillin Jul 7, 2017

When Salesforce.com Inc. sent Domtar Corp.’s Personal Care Division, a manufacturer of absorbent hygiene products, a request to upgrade software drivers that the customer relationship management supplier was using for connectivity, the process seemed…

Infra

Comparison shopping for data centers? There’s an app for that

By Paul Gillin Jul 7, 2017

Few people have much experience setting up a data center, which means that the first time they do it, the process is often tortuous and fraught with error. There are so many moving parts.…

Cloud

Tibco colors in the edges with acquisition of microservices developer

By Paul Gillin Jul 6, 2017

Data integration giant Tibco Software Inc. is boosting its edge computing strategy with the acquisition of Nanoscale Inc., a provider of productivity tools for creating microservices, small pieces of software code that can be combined into various applications. Pricing…

Big Data

Syncsort changes hands again in acquisition/merger deal

By Paul Gillin Jul 6, 2017

Less than two years after selling out to Clearlake Capital Group L.P. and ending its 47-year run as an independent company, Syncsort Inc. is being sold again. Private equity firm Centerbridge Partners L.P. said…

Infra

Wikibon report questions ‘breakthrough technology’ claims for 3D Xpoint memory chips

By Paul Gillin Jun 29, 2017

Ears must be burning at chip giants Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. in the wake of a new report by Wikibon Chief Technology Officer David Floyer (pictured) that dismantles the grandiose claims the…

Infra

AppDynamics takes aim at software container performance with Docker monitor

By Paul Gillin Jun 29, 2017

Asserting that slow performance is a major barrier to the acceptance of applications that can run in software containers, AppDynamics Inc. is rolling out a service to monitor Docker Inc. containers running microservices. Microservices…

Big Data

Rising in-memory database tide floats Kinetica to $50 million funding round

By Paul Gillin Jun 29, 2017

Kinetica Db Inc. today said it has closed a $50 million series A financing round, nearly quintupling its total venture capital investment in one fell swoop. The in-memory relational database maker, which is distinctive for…

Cloud

Aviatrix inks deals with Nutanix, Cisco to simplify hybrid cloud networking

By Paul Gillin Jun 29, 2017

Aviatrix Systems Inc. is joining with Nutanix Inc. on a product that enables enterprises to automate connectivity between hyperconverged private cloud environments and popular public clouds. Separately, the company said its Aviatrix Cloud Interconnect software…

Infra

Nutanix brings its technology stack to the cloud, including Google’s

By Paul Gillin Jun 28, 2017

“Hybrid cloud” is a way for companies to use both public cloud computing services and private cloud services in their own data centers. Nutanix Inc. thinks the concept needs a reboot. To help do…

Infra

Selling ‘outcomes’: GE shows that old rules don’t apply to digital business

By Paul Gillin Jun 24, 2017

A cardinal rule of sales is never to guarantee results. But General Electric Co. is defying that conventional wisdom with a new approach to engaging industrial customers that earns GE a premium when it…

Paul Gillin

Comparison shopping for data centers? There’s an app for that

Tibco colors in the edges with acquisition of microservices developer

Syncsort changes hands again in acquisition/merger deal

Wikibon report questions ‘breakthrough technology’ claims for 3D Xpoint memory chips

AppDynamics takes aim at software container performance with Docker monitor

Rising in-memory database tide floats Kinetica to $50 million funding round

Aviatrix inks deals with Nutanix, Cisco to simplify hybrid cloud networking

Nutanix brings its technology stack to the cloud, including Google’s

Selling ‘outcomes’: GE shows that old rules don’t apply to digital business

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