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

Buying LinkedIn, Microsoft makes big bet on social data. Too big?

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

In buying LinkedIn Corp. today for a stunning $26.2 billion, Microsoft is making an unprecedented bet that social data can supercharge its Office and cloud businesses. The central question: Is it too big a bet on an asset of uncertain value that …

VMware improves over-the-air mobile security, management

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. announced a broad series of enhancements to its mobility support platforms, including new features in its Workspace ONE enterprise mobility management platform that simplify remote management and upgrades and a partnership with Tanium Inc. that helps administrators more easily find and …

Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2B

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn Corp. in an all-cash deal valued at $26.2 billion. LinkedIn will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary, with CEO Jeff Weiner (above right) reporting to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (above left). The deal has the unanimous support of …

Survey finds growing confidence in public cloud security

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

The long-held perception that cloud computing is inherently less secure than on-premise computing is finally dissipating, but cybersecurity pros still have plenty of anxiety about the aspect of cloud security they can’t control: end-user behavior. A new survey of 2,200 security pros …

What’s up with Bluemix? IBM cloud tech chief’s got the skinny

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Angel Luis Diaz (@AngelLuisDiaz, right) is a busy man. In addition to running IBM’s cloud technology operations, he’s in charge of the company’s San Jose, CA lab and one of its leading evangelists for open-source software. He’s also in charge of development …

Alpine Data adds Python support, Jupyter Notebooks integration to Chorus analytics platform

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Alpine Data Labs is continuing its efforts to bridge the gap between data scientists and the C-suite with release 6.0 of its Chorus analytics platform. Chorus is a data science and machine learning platform that combines people, datasets and collaborative workspaces. It’s …

Datos IO says it’s cracked distributed data protection nut

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Nearly nine months after launching out of stealth with $15.2 million in funding, Datos IO Inc. is announcing the fruits of two years of development on technology to protect data in the new era of distributed databases. RecoverX is being touted as …

HPE rollouts underline multi-cloud integration plans | #HPEDiscover

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is joining the parade of enterprise technology vendors trying to simplify customers’ move to hybrid cloud. After a tumultuous year in which the pre-split HP first declared its intention to become a major infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) vendor and then …

Atlassian lets users ask “what if?”

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Collaborative software development vendor Atlassian Corp. PLC is adding what-if modeling to its Portfolio for JIRA portfolio management system and tightening integration between the portfolio manager and its flagship JIRA software tracking and project management system in a new release announced today. …

SIOS rolls SQL Server support into VMware management suite

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

SIOS Technology Corp. is giving system administrators in big SQL Server shops reason to smile in release 3.7 of its SIOS iQ machine learning analytics software for managing VMware Inc. environments. SIOS iQ is an agentless machine learning analytics platform for IT operations information …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

VMware improves over-the-air mobile security, management

What’s up with Bluemix? IBM cloud tech chief’s got the skinny

Alpine Data adds Python support, Jupyter Notebooks integration to Chorus analytics platform

Datos IO says it’s cracked distributed data protection nut

HPE rollouts underline multi-cloud integration plans | #HPEDiscover

Atlassian lets users ask “what if?”

SIOS rolls SQL Server support into VMware management suite

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