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

Microsoft blows away earnings forecast and its shares hit an all-time high

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. crushed analysts’ estimates for sales and earnings in the quarter ended June 30, providing further evidence that it has successfully turned the corner from packaged-software company into cloud services provider. Investors rejoiced, sending the company’s shares to an all-time high …

Prey’s device recovery software gets improved enterprise features

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Prey Inc., maker of a freemium software suite for tracking and monitoring mobile devices to prevent theft, announced a new version of its enterprise offering with improved anti-theft and multi-device management capabilities. The improved geofencing and file retrieval capabilities help secure devices …

SAP raises outlook on strong growth in cloud, business software sales

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Strong sales of cloud services and even stronger sales of a next-generation business software suite lifted German software giant SAP SE’s second-quarter earnings released early this morning. “We have never been better positioned,” SAP Chief Executive Bill McDermott (pictured) said on this …

Workato raises $10M to simplify application integration

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Self-service data integration vendor Workato Inc. has raised $10 million in early-stage financing and released a major update to its Workato Turing platform. The new Series A funding round, announced Tuesday, was led by Storm Ventures LLC with additional investment from Salesforce Ventures and Workday …

Open Container Initiative releases first fruits of its standard-building labors

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

More than two years in the making – a blink of an eye in standards-setting time – the Open Container Initiative version 1.0 is ready. The standard covers runtime and image specifications for containers, which define container lifecycles and image formats, respectively. Those …

Oracle aims to one-up Microsoft with expanded Cloud at Customer service

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. is wasting no time returning fire at Microsoft Corp.’s announcement last week of the availability of its Azure Stack on-premises cloud offering. The database and business software giant today is expanding the breadth of services it will deliver via its similar …

Dremio tackles self-service analytics with Apache Arrow-based data abstraction engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

After two years in stealth mode, Dremio Corp. is entering the red-hot self-service data analytics market today with an open-source platform based on the Apache Arrow distributed query engine. Dremio said it eliminates the need for cumbersome tasks and technologies such as extract/transform/load …

How machine learning will spark a revolution in insurance

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Siddhartha Dalal got his introduction to probabilistic analysis in the wake of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Dalal’s research on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences found that NASA’s estimates of a 0.5 percent risk of the o-ring gasket failure …

Startup Edgewise Networks takes security to the application level

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Edgewise Networks has emerged from stealth mode with an approach to network security that is says fixes the biggest problem in firewalls: their reliance on IP addresses, the basic identifier for computing devices. Edgewise’s approach instead works at the application layer, allowing …

Chief data officers bust out of the shadows onto the corporate front lines

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Chief data officers are rapidly moving out of the shadows of back-office data quality and governance tasks and onto the front lines of corporate enterprise computing strategy. That became more obvious Thursday with the release of new Gartner Inc. research as well …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Microsoft blows away earnings forecast and its shares hit an all-time high

Prey’s device recovery software gets improved enterprise features

SAP raises outlook on strong growth in cloud, business software sales

Workato raises $10M to simplify application integration

Open Container Initiative releases first fruits of its standard-building labors

Dremio tackles self-service analytics with Apache Arrow-based data abstraction engine

How machine learning will spark a revolution in insurance

Startup Edgewise Networks takes security to the application level

Chief data officers bust out of the shadows onto the corporate front lines

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