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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.

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Java on the mainframe?<br> Yep, and BMC will manage it

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

IBM mainframes are not generally considered a hotbed of activity for the Java programming language, but you might be surprised. BMC Software Inc. recently surveyed 1,200 mainframe users and found that 93 percent said their Java usage on big iron is growing, …

OpsDataStore enhances real-time monitoring system

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

OpsDataStore Inc. has updated its namesake IT service management product with a new version that provides real-time troubleshooting, performance and capacity analytics and customized dashboards. The company pitches its product as providing IT operational information in whatever business intelligence tool the customer chooses …

Datto says it lets SMBs keep things in synch for less

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Flush with cash from a $75 million funding round last November, backup and recovery service provider Datto Inc. is taking on the heavy hitters in cloud file storage and synchronization with an offering aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) that’s priced …

Slow-loading software seen as $7.5B problem

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Nimble Storage Inc. is making a pretty good case for moving from disks to flash storage with a new survey that reveals that business users lose about 10 percent of their day just waiting for programs to load. The ‘Mind the Gap’ report, …

Survey sees rapid growth in enterprise cloud adoption

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

A new survey of IT professionals indicates that cloud computing is growing faster in large organizations than in small ones. Use of public clouds at large companies will grow 52 percent annually over the next two years, while private cloud use will …

GNU founder Stallman: ‘Open source is not free software’

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Interviewing Richard Stallman is a challenge. The terms sheet for the interview carries a half dozen caveats and requests, most relating to Stallman’s desire to not be identified as an advocate for open source software. There’s also a long suggested reading list …

Qubole releases Kafka ingestion, conversion service to open source

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Less than three weeks after open-sourcing its Quark cost-based SQL optimizer, big data-as-a-service provider Qubole Inc. is at it again. Coincident with Kafka Summit taking place in San Francisco this week, Qubole said it’s releasing its StreamX ingestion service under an Apache …

Oracle blitzes sales and marketing pros with new cloud options

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

It looks like Oracle is tired of watching Salesforce.com Inc. have all the fun. The database giant is unleashing a torrent of new marketing-oriented products and services today at a quartet of customer experience-focused conferences it’s holding in Las Vegas for customer …

Survey finds tech professionals are a footloose bunch

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Watch out San Francisco; New York is out to get you. At least that’s what it would seem from the opinions expressed by users of the anonymous tech recruiting site Woo. The startup munged through the profiles of 5,000 of its users …

Microsoft narrowly misses Q3 net, but cloud business is booming

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Not yet. Microsoft narrowly missed analysts estimates and earnings and all but matched revenue expectations in the fiscal third quarter, but it offered weaker-than-expected guidance for the year, knocking its shares down in immediate after-hours trading and perhaps obscuring the bigger growth …

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