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

LinkedIn buys sales productivity startup in a boost for its prospecting business

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

LinkedIn Corp. has acquired a small startup company that builds products that enhance sales and marketing productivity. Heighten Software Inc.‘s technology improves the sales process through better tracking, pipeline reporting and an intelligent notepad. It has only 10 employees but raised $7.4 …

VMware raises forecast, says digital transformation is lifting all tech boats, but investors yawn

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. beat the earnings and revenue forecasts it had revised upward in January and raised guidance for the rest of the year, but investors responded apathetically, bidding the stock down slightly in after-hours trading. The virtualization giant reported revenue of $1.74 billion …

HPE meets lowered expectations as execs insist worst is over, but investors not so sure

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The word “down” appears 21 times in Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s fiscal second-quarter earnings release, which gives you some indication of the challenges the company faces. HPE’s results were expected to be dismal, and the company surprised no one with earnings that met …

CoreOS touts portability in enhanced container-management platform

APPS By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

CoreOS Inc. is adding features to its Tectonic container management platform as it welcomes 800 open source and container fans to its CoreOS Fest conference this week in San Francisco. The enhancements enable greater portability of applications across hybrid clouds while giving …

Report: Risk management pros say their companies aren’t ready for the Internet of Things

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Organizations are increasingly worried about the security risks of the Internet of Things, but have a few action plans for dealing with them, according to a new report by the Ponemon Institute and the Shared Assessments Program, an industry-standard body focused on …

Splunk beats earnings estimates, but slowdown in customer growth tugs on shares

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Splunk Inc. beat analyst revenue and earnings-per-share estimates in its first fiscal quarter and raised its outlook for the full year, but it wasn’t good enough for investors. A slowdown in the company’s overall growth rate and a small decline in new-customer growth …

Controversial security unicorn Tanium adds $100 million to its war chest

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Tanium Inc., the highly valued and highly controversial security software company, is selling $100 million of common stock in an apparent bid to enable early investors to cash in some of their shares. The new funding round is being led by TPG …

Splash! Cloudera, DataStax and IBM all jump into big data as a service pool

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The red-hot concept of big data as a service is getting a boost from no less than three major companies this week as Cloudera Inc., DataStax Inc. and IBM Corp. all roll out new offerings. Cloudera today will introduce Cloudera Altus, a …

Couchbase completes ‘customer engagement’ repositioning with latest database

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Couchbase Inc. is continuing its push to position its NoSQL database as a platform for customer engagement with the announcement of version 5.0 today. Continuing an evolution it began earlier this year, the company said its rebranded “engagement database” taps into dynamic …

GoodData embeds analytics, machine learning in applications and workflows

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Business analytics-at-scale provider GoodData Corp. is releasing new technology that enables customers to embed analytics and machine learning capabilities into existing applications and workflows. The company is positioning the new features as a “change in strategy” following an earlier repositioning around analytics …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

LinkedIn buys sales productivity startup in a boost for its prospecting business

VMware raises forecast, says digital transformation is lifting all tech boats, but investors yawn

HPE meets lowered expectations as execs insist worst is over, but investors not so sure

CoreOS touts portability in enhanced container-management platform

Report: Risk management pros say their companies aren’t ready for the Internet of Things

Splunk beats earnings estimates, but slowdown in customer growth tugs on shares

Controversial security unicorn Tanium adds $100 million to its war chest

Splash! Cloudera, DataStax and IBM all jump into big data as a service pool

Couchbase completes ‘customer engagement’ repositioning with latest database

GoodData embeds analytics, machine learning in applications and workflows

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