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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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Spark muscling in on Hadoop’s territory, says Wikibon analyst

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Is Apache Spark the successor to Hadoop? Some people think so. Given the batch-oriented Hadoop’s complexity and the notorious performance problems of the MapReduce processing framework and the components that depend upon it, the integration and speed that the in-memory Spark analytics …

MemSQL raises $36M to advance its in-memory analytical database

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

MemSQL Inc., developer of a scalable SQL-based in-memory distributed database, closed an over-subscribed series C financing round of $36 million, bringing its total funding to $85 million and setting the stage for international expansion. Previous investors Accel Partners LP, Khosla Ventures LLC, …

Canonical courts enterprises, developers with new Ubuntu release

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

With a newly signed deal with longtime antagonist Microsoft under its belt, Canonical Ltd. is rolling out the sixth major release of Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS), adding features that should improve the Linux distribution’s appeal to developers and enterprises. An LTS release is supported and …

EMC misses earnings target but says Dell merger is on track

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

EMC isn’t doing itself any favors in helping along its merger with Dell Inc. The storage giant reported weaker-than-expected earnings this morning, citing an “excess of unfulfilled orders.” Earnings per share were 31 cents, flat from a year ago and two cents below …

Upbeat VMware says future’s so bright it’s gotta wear shades

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Looks like things aren’t so troubled at VMware Inc. after all. Coming off the first quarter of what management has termed a “transition year,” and following a string of executive departures as well as confusion about its cloud strategy, the virtualization giant beat …

IBM mounts video push with new customers and products

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

IBM is demonstrating that it’s serious about video this week with a series of new customer announcements and technology enhancements that it says make it possible to provide live, high-quality video anywhere in the world with sub-one-second startup delays and a “glitch-free …

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