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

Earnings preview: Will profits get the tech market rally back on track?

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Quarterly earnings season begins this coming week, and the question for technology companies is: How high is up? Despite two weeks of modestly declining share prices in April, technology shares are still up an average of 10 percent in 2017, compared with …

Cloudera sets IPO price far below earlier valuation estimates

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

In a move that’s likely to throw cold water on investors who have been hoping for a rally in enterprise software stocks, Cloudera Inc. set the price range for its initial public offering today that implies a market capitalization of less than …

He’s not running blind: Wearable tech will help Boston Marathon contestant reach the finish line

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

When he crosses the starting line of the 121st Boston Marathon on Monday, blind runner Erich Manser will be accompanied by two assistants – one immediately to his left and another 800 miles away in Ohio. Manser (pictured) is the first marathon …

Study finds ‘digital business’ is still just a dream for many

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

For all the talk about digital transformation, it appears there’s little actual transforming going on. A new survey of 1,000 companies by The Enterprise Strategy Group Inc., and underwritten by Dell EMC, finds that only about 5 percent of organizations have fully embraced all …

Application container use surges, but lack of persistent storage irks more companies

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Investment in containers, the simple, portable software wrappers for applications, is growing rapidly, but a lack of support for persistent storage has arisen as the top challenge of companies adopting the technology. That’s according to the results of a new survey conducted …

You can open your eyes now: Okta soars 38 percent in first-day trading

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Maybe it’s finally safe to go back in the water. Enterprise-focused identity management startup Okta Inc. took a gamble on today’s initial public offering, pricing its shares at the top end of its $15 to $17 target, but the bet paid off …

Fintech upstarts present a growing threat to financial services incumbents, says PwC

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Financial firms are at a high risk of disruption from tech-driven competitors, but rather than fighting or hiding, a majority of traditional companies are moving to embrace their disruptors, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP report. The report, which is based on …

Semarchy brings material design to ‘master data management’

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Semarchy Inc. hopes to help democratize master data management with new software that uses material design principles to simplify the process of data harmonization. MDM is an approach to linking important data across an organization to a single master file that acts …

Crunchbase raises $18M as it seeks to become a broad-based data provider

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Crunchbase Inc., the tech startup directory that grew out of the popular TechCrunch news site and was spun out of AOL Inc. 18 months ago, has raised $18 million in a series B funding round and launched a high-end Crunchbase Enterprise version of its …

Survey shows lackadaisical attitudes toward cloud security risks

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Information technology professionals may worry a lot about cloud security, but a new survey indicates they’re doing little about it. The survey of more than 3,000 IT professionals by cloud access security broker Bitglass Inc. found that only 24 percent of organizations …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Earnings preview: Will profits get the tech market rally back on track?

Cloudera sets IPO price far below earlier valuation estimates

He’s not running blind: Wearable tech will help Boston Marathon contestant reach the finish line

Study finds ‘digital business’ is still just a dream for many

Application container use surges, but lack of persistent storage irks more companies

You can open your eyes now: Okta soars 38 percent in first-day trading

Fintech upstarts present a growing threat to financial services incumbents, says PwC

Semarchy brings material design to ‘master data management’

Crunchbase raises $18M as it seeks to become a broad-based data provider

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