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

IBM study: Top performers have their hybrid cloud act together

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Nearly 80 percent of C-level executives say their cloud efforts are coordinated or fully integrated, up from just 34 percent four years ago. That’s according to a new study by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV). The survey of 1,000 executives …

Cirba folds expert advisers into infrastructure optimization service

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Infrastructure optimization vendor Cirba Inc. has put its Densify virtual infrastructure capacity management software in the cloud and added new advisory services. The new capability, called Expert Insight, provides customers with “interactive insight and guidance on risks and opportunities in their VMware or …

VMware says its virtual desktops are looking more like the real thing

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. is boosting its Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) product line today with a series of new features that bring the performance and functionality of virtual desktops closer to those of dedicated PCs. VDI is one of those technologies that seems …

IT financial software maker Apptio tests initial public offering waters

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Apptio Inc., a Bellevue, WA-based developer of software that helps executives make informed financial decisions, apparently liked what it saw from the latest round of earnings from newly public tech companies this quarter. It filed to go public today with a goal …

Rackspace going private in $4.3B deal

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace Hosting Inc. is going private in a $4.3 billion deal announced this morning. The deal comes after three weeks of speculation that the hosting provider would seek an alternative to the public markets as its early lead in cloud services …

Talend beats Street, but stock gyrates over earnings-per-share confusion

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Talend SA beat revenue and earnings forecasts but confusion over its earnings-per-share (EPS) results took the stock on a wild ride in after-hours trading. The Big Data integration software company reported total revenue of $25.4 million for the second quarter, up 38 percent …

How one company’s software contains shipping industry’s costs – and its own

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Some 800 million shipping containers crisscross the globe every year, but only about half make it to their destinations on time. The reason delivery performance is so erratic is because the global shipping industry has grown up in local silos, each with …

GE’s Predix: designed for analytics when milliseconds matter

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

There are a lot of cloud analytics platforms out there, but you’ve never seen one quite like GE Predix. Optimized for the unique characteristics of industrial environments, with their multitudes of machines and processing needs, Predix is designed to support complex systems …

Catalogic, Pure Storage team up on copy data management

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Software-defined copy data management (CDM) vendor Catalogic Software Inc. had broadened its support for flash storage arrays with the addition of Pure Storage Inc.’s FlashArray //m series. Catalogic and Pure Storage plan to jointly deliver a CDM package that addresses problem of …

Ever hear of Bayesian analysis? It just landed this company $6.6M

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

SigOpt Inc. works in a data analytics discipline that is so specialized that few people outside of the data science field can even understand it, much less explain it. That hasn’t stopped the eight-person venture from raising a $6.6 million series A …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

IBM study: Top performers have their hybrid cloud act together

Cirba folds expert advisers into infrastructure optimization service

VMware says its virtual desktops are looking more like the real thing

IT financial software maker Apptio tests initial public offering waters

Rackspace going private in $4.3B deal

Talend beats Street, but stock gyrates over earnings-per-share confusion

How one company’s software contains shipping industry’s costs – and its own

GE’s Predix: designed for analytics when milliseconds matter

Catalogic, Pure Storage team up on copy data management

Ever hear of Bayesian analysis? It just landed this company $6.6M

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