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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Nvidia more than doubles edge processor power

Continuing its bid to become an arms dealer for the internet of things revolution, Nvidia Corp. today is overhauling its Jetson embedded edge processing platform. The chip maker is doubling memory, storage and throughput while improving video encoding support and video capture capability in a package that draws less than 7.5 watts of power. Nvidia ...

HP Enterprise buys Nimble Storage for $1B to fill product-line gap

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. said today that it will buy flash storage maker Nimble Storage Inc. for about $1 billion in cash, plus about $200 million in unvested equity awards, as it seeks to shore up its flagging storage business in the wake of a dismal first-quarter earnings report. The deal underscores the struggles storage ...

Arcadia overhauls analytics-on-Hadoop engine with Google’s Material Design

Arcadia Data Inc. has overhauled the user interface in version 4.0 of its Arcadia Enterprise 4.0 big data platform, making it easier for users to perform visual analytics directly on Hadoop data stores. The company also enhanced security for extranet deployments, making it easier to share models with internal and external constituents. Arcadia Data is one ...

How a scheduler helped one financial firm rein in its batch processing load

Real-time streaming data applications may get all the press, but the reality is that much of the business world still runs in batch mode. As companies grow, so does the volume of management reports that must be run overnight. At Raymond James Financial Inc., that growth threatened to swamp the batch processing systems and delay ...

Nimble raises $9M to expand its social CRM service

Nimble Inc., the social customer relationship management company founded by GoldMine Software Corp. co-founder Jon Ferrara (pictured), has raised $9 million in funding. The Series A round of financing was led by Imagen Capital Partners along with Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments, Google Ventures, Indicator Ventures and a consortium of angel investors. The company earlier raised ...

Reltio boosts third-party integration with master data management service

Reltio Inc., a platform-as-a-service company that provides master data management services for disparate data sources, has announced the newest iteration of its cloud data management platform. The new version features integration with SnapLogic Inc.’s application program interface manager and improved integration with Dun & Bradstreet Corp. data. Master data management is a technique for defining ...

Trillium folds offline information into data-as-a-service offering

Trillium Software, a Syncsort Inc. subsidiary that specializes in data quality, today announced the availability of Trillium Precise, a new data-as-a-service offering that enables organizations to get a single view of validated, verified customer and prospect contact information, including offline data. Trillium Precise combines the company’s world-wide postal and geocoding data cleansing service with data ...

Salesforce.com beats earnings forecasts and raises guidance, but investors sniff

Salesforce.com Inc. beat revenue forecasts, matched earnings-per-share estimates and raised its full-year 2018 revenue guidance, but all that wasn’t enough to please picky investors. The provider of customer relationship manager services saw shares decline about 1.5 percent in after-hours trading. The issue appeared to be somewhat softer guidance the company issued for the current fiscal quarter, ...

Chip cards are driving more fraud online, study finds

Retailers suffered a 79 percent greater risk of fraud in the fourth quarter of 2016 compared with the same quarter a year ago. Merchants in the U.S. — and in the apparel industry in particular — bear the brunt of the growth, according to a new analysis from Forter Inc. a maker of fraud prevention software. ...

Alfresco pitches integrated content/workflow manager at digital transformation

Hitching its wagon to the current craze for “digital transformation,” Alfresco Software Inc. is combining its open-source enterprise content management and business process management services into an integrated package topped by an application development platform. The Alfresco Digital Business Platform is used to create automated workflows involving multiple documents and users in areas such as ...