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

SugarCRM gives its mobile app an overhaul

APPS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

With use of its mobile app tripling year-over-year, SugarCRM Inc. is buffing up the iOS and Android software with a host of new usability and management features. Many of the enhancements relate to “streamlining where the clicks are and making intuitive actions part of the …

Hortonworks announces faster, more secure data platform

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Hortonworks Inc. today announced a new version of its data platform, boosting query performance, strengthening security and streamlining data management operations. With version 2.6 of the Hortonworks Data Platform, based on the open-source Hadoop software framework for handling very large datasets distributed …

WalkMe snaps up Jaco, builder of user experience visualization engine

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

WalkMe Inc., maker of a platform for understanding and improving user experience, has made its second acquisition, picking up Jaco Analytics Inc. and its user experience visualization technology. WalkMe calls its cloud-based service a “guidance and engagement platform.” The software enables companies …

Intel completes McAfee spinoff to sighs of relief at both companies

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Formalizing a deal announced in September, Intel Corp. has completed the spinoff of its McAfee security subsidiary, selling a 51 percent stake to private equity firm TPG for $3.1 billion plus a promise by TPG to invest an additional $1.1 billion in …

Quality assurance firm has an unusual advantage: autistic testers

APPS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

“I see things at different levels than most people. I can see a whole spreadsheet of information organized in my mind. Before we moved into our house, I could picture every room and know exactly where I was going to put everything. …

EMC drives most of Dell’s growth as PC and server revenues flatten

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Dell Technologies Inc. said it’s growing market share in all of its key markets as synergies between its new EMC subsidiary and other federated companies kick in. The Round Rock, Texas-based company early today reported $20.1 billion in fiscal fourth-quarter revenues, up …

Business intelligence hotshot Looker rakes in another big pile of cash

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Hot business intelligence startup Looker Data Sciences Inc. has closed an $81.5 million Series D funding round, adding CapitalG, the late-stage venture capital fund run by Google’s Alphabet parent, to its growing roster of investors. The latest infusion brings Looker’s total funding to $177.5 million, …

Atadata eases cloud migration pain using scripts instead of middleware

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Atadata LLC is targeting the thorny problems of cloud migration with a managed platform that enables companies to shift workloads between on-premises and cloud environments without the use of software agents or emulation. Designed to support large enterprise workloads and a wide …

ControlUp Raises $10M for operations monitoring platform

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

ControlUp Technologies Ltd. has raised $10 million in a series B funding round to build a U.S. presence for its analytics platform for information technology operations. ControlUp’s technology is used by organizations running hybrid clouds to measure performance metrics of virtual machine hypervisors …

JethroData cranks up speed and automation in business intelligence acceleration engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

JethroData Inc., provider of an index-based SQL platform that speeds up business intelligence operations on Hadoop as well as traditional data warehousing platforms, is today releasing a new version with improved security, automatic aggregation of decision-support cubes, an improved administrator interface and better …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

SugarCRM gives its mobile app an overhaul

Hortonworks announces faster, more secure data platform

WalkMe snaps up Jaco, builder of user experience visualization engine

Intel completes McAfee spinoff to sighs of relief at both companies

Quality assurance firm has an unusual advantage: autistic testers

EMC drives most of Dell’s growth as PC and server revenues flatten

Business intelligence hotshot Looker rakes in another big pile of cash

ControlUp Raises $10M for operations monitoring platform

JethroData cranks up speed and automation in business intelligence acceleration engine

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