Paul Gillin, Author at SiliconANGLE

Infra

Big tech mergers never work. Is Michael Dell bucking the odds with EMC?

By Paul Gillin May 7, 2017

When Dell Inc.’s blockbuster $67 billion purchase of EMC Corp. closed last fall, it was billed as a perfect marriage. Unlike many big acquisitions, there was little overlap in product lines. The business models…

Infra

Open-source software startups still struggling to reach escape velocity

By Paul Gillin May 6, 2017

Part 2 of a two-part series on the challenges of making money from open-source software. Part 1 ran earlier this week. When Oracle Corp. acquired Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010, it picked up a bit…

Cloud

Big data firm Hortonworks delights investors with 35 percent revenue growth

By Paul Gillin May 4, 2017

Big data company Hortonworks Inc. said first-quarter revenue of $56 million rose 35 percent from a year ago with stronger margins and a narrower operating loss. The sales results handily beat analyst consensus estimates…

Apps

How a big idea changed the culture of the world’s largest networking company

By Paul Gillin May 3, 2017

Sometimes, one person can change the culture of an entire corporate giant. At Cisco Systems Inc., that person is Susie Wee (pictured), vice president and chief technology officer of DevNet Innovations, the company’s developer…

Cloud

Datos IO polishes data protection tools for hybrid IT environments

By Paul Gillin May 2, 2017

Datos IO Inc. is rolling out what it calls a major new release of its scale-out data protection software for distributed database environments. RecoverX 2.0 includes new capabilities that ease the task of migrating…

Big Data

The great open-source software debate: Does this model have a future?

By Paul Gillin May 1, 2017

It sounds like a good idea in concept: Outsource costly software development and testing operations to a community of skilled developers who work for free. Then take the fruits of their labors and package…

Cloud

Intel, Microsoft miss estimates, but growth businesses remain strong

By Paul Gillin Apr 27, 2017

Two giants of the personal computer era slightly underwhelmed investors with earnings reports today but indicated that their comeback plans are making steady progress. Microsoft Corp. beat earnings estimates for its third fiscal quarter…

Big Data

Marketing tech unicorn Zeta raises $140 million, eyes more acquisitions

By Paul Gillin Apr 27, 2017

Zeta Interactive Corp., which started as a recruiter of college applicants, nearly imploded when Congress withdrew student loan funding and reinvented itself as a marketing technology company, raised $140 million in a series F…

Big Data

Self-programming machines will usher in the third age of computing

By Paul Gillin Apr 26, 2017

Get ready for a future in which machines program themselves, the cloud is atomized into a network of intelligent devices and data ownership is a source of competitive advantage. That’s the world James Kobielus…

Big Data

Frrole folds machine learning into social media sentiment analysis

By Paul Gillin Apr 25, 2017

Bangalore-based Frrole Inc. is venturing into the U.S. market with a social monitoring tool aimed at marketers that incorporates an element of artificial intelligence to provide deeper insights based on social analytics. Called Scout, the…

Paul Gillin

Big tech mergers never work. Is Michael Dell bucking the odds with EMC?

Open-source software startups still struggling to reach escape velocity

Big data firm Hortonworks delights investors with 35 percent revenue growth

How a big idea changed the culture of the world’s largest networking company

Datos IO polishes data protection tools for hybrid IT environments

The great open-source software debate: Does this model have a future?

Marketing tech unicorn Zeta raises $140 million, eyes more acquisitions

Self-programming machines will usher in the third age of computing

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