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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Startup Anodot uses machine learning to hunt for anomalies

Fresh from a $3 million Series A funding round, Israeli analytics startup Anodot, Inc. exits stealth today with a real-time analytics engine focused on anomaly detection. The system uses patented machine learning algorithms to deliver what it claims is unparalleled ease-of-use and rapid response when finding data patterns that deviate from the expected norms. The ...

MapR advances real-time push with integration platform

Continuing a recent push into the real-time data processing that began with the 5.0 release of its namesake Hadoop distribution, MapR Technologies Inc. today debuted a converged messaging and data integration platform that it says simplifies the delivery of streaming data by using a single pipe that can access multiple data sources and deliver to ...

Tips for writing year-end predictions

Each year the holiday season brings SiliconANGLE a deluge of inquiries from vendors and their agencies about publishing their predictions for the coming year. I’ll be blunt: Most of these predictions articles are dull and, well, predictable. And since everyone does them, they’re no longer very distinctive. If you want your predictions post to be ...

AppDynamics raises $158M, updates monitoring platform

Red-hot application monitoring startup AppDynamics, Inc. kicked off its annual user conference by announcing that it has closed a $158 million funding round and released a new version of its Application Intelligence Platform  that adds server infrastructure and browser-simulated monitoring as well as support for C/C++ applications and enhanced analytics. With the new funding, led by  General  Atlantic  and  Altimeter  Capital, among ...

Sizing up public cloud: Amazon dominant, but not indomitable

First in a series of articles analyzing the strategies the largest public cloud vendors are using to court enterprise customers.  So much praise has been showered on Amazon Web Services (AWS) this year, particularly in the afterglow of its recent re:Invent conference, that there’s no longer any question AWS is the default cloud provider for ...

200-year-old publisher finds happiness with NoSQL database

When Ted Blizzard was presented with the idea of hosting mission-critical data on a NoSQL database way back in 2005, his initial reaction was predictable. “I said absolutely no way,” said Blizzard (below right), CIO of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the prestigious publication of the Massachusetts Medical Social that many people consider the ...

Datto scores $75 million to boost global expansion

Backup and recovery powerhouse Datto Inc. got a significant boost for its expansion efforts with a $75 million Series B funding round from a single investor: Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). The infusion brings Datto’s total fundraising to $100 million, a princely sum for a company that says it’s already profitable. The funding reportedly brings the firm’s ...

Startup takes Big Data approach to data center troubleshooting

An Atlanta-based startup is tackling the IT complexity problem with a big data approach, hoping partnerships with scores of point solution providers can yield unprecedented insight on the source of performance problems. OpsDataStore is a data ingestion layer and analytics engine that grabs information from a wide variety of operating systems, virtualization platforms, systems management ...

Startup says it’s made containers enterprise-friendly

With the surging popularity of containers creating a host of new companion platforms and accompanying management headaches, a startup founded by a team of former Citrix Systems, Inc., Microsoft, and VMware Inc. engineers and backed in part by former VMware CTO Steve Herrod is coming out with an orchestration platform that it hope will make ...

Sweet! Food firm’s integration recipe has all the right ingredients

Flavor maker Amoretti came up with a novel way to save money on software licensing costs and improve visibility into its operations by using data integration software to connect its customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning engines. The 30-year-old family business makes about 2,500 flavors used in recipes ranging from drink mixes to ...