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 says its Azure Stack on-premises cloud is finally ready to ship

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

More than two years after it was announced, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Stack is ready to ship. Microsoft has called the on-premises version of its cloud stack its secret weapon against Amazon Web Services Inc. because it leverages Microsoft’s legacy data center customer …

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

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 like a simple one. But upon upgrading, Domtar …

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

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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. Space needs to be purchased or leased, equipment …

Tibco colors in the edges with acquisition of microservices developer

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 wasn’t disclosed. Tibco said the Reston, Virginia-based company’s …

Syncsort changes hands again in acquisition/merger deal

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 it will acquire the big data and mainframe …

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

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 two companies have been making about their jointly …

AppDynamics takes aim at software container performance with Docker monitor

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 iQ Integrated Docker Monitoring enables administrators to view …

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

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 its use of graphics processing units to accelerate …

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

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 will be sold with Cisco Systems Inc. as …

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

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

“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 that, Nutanix today is bringing its hyperconverged infrastructure, …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Microsoft says its Azure Stack on-premises cloud is finally ready to ship

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

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