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

MariaDB secures $27M from European investors to build open-source database franchise

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Open source database vendor MariaDB Corp. said it raised €25 million (approximately $27 million) from the European Investment Bank under the European Fund for Strategic Investments, a European Commission project that funnels money to growing businesses in the region. The funding, which is …

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

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 were complementary too. EMC targeted high-end customers with …

Open-source software startups still struggling to reach escape velocity

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 of a hot potato: an open-source database. The …

Big data firm Hortonworks delights investors with 35 percent revenue growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 of between $52 million and $53 million for …

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

APPS By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 program. From a standing start three years ago, …

Datos IO polishes data protection tools for hybrid IT environments

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 in protecting data in mixed on-premises and cloud …

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

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 it up with other add-ons and extensions – …

Intel, Microsoft miss estimates, but growth businesses remain strong

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 on a 94 percent surge in its Azure …

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

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 financing round that brings its total funding to …

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

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

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 envisions as he assumes his new role as …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

MariaDB secures $27M from European investors to build open-source database franchise

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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