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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.

Latest from Paul Gillin

Social selling – get on the bus or be flattened by it

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

If you think “social selling” is just the latest marketing buzzword, then spend a half hour checking out the websites of the startups covered on TechCrunch on VentureBeat each day. Every one of these dynamic young technology firms, which are raising millions of …

HPE targets small businesses with managed cloud-in-a-box server

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise today joins the ranks of those infrastructure companies seeking to make the move to the hybrid cloud drop-dead simple. The company is targeting small and midsize businesses (SMBs) with the HPE ProLiant Easy Connect EC200a Managed Hybrid solution (above), a …

DataStax layers graph database on top of Cassandra engine

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

DataStax Inc. is hoping to jump-start graph databases out of their niche with a real-time graph engine targeted at cloud applications that manage high-volume changeable data. The company is today introducing an overhauled version of the TitanDB product it picked up with …

Qubole releases SQL optimizer as open source

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

  Big data-as-a-service provider Qubole Inc. has open-sourced its Quark cost-based SQL optimizer that simplifies and optimize access to data across multiple hosts. Quark essentially chooses between popular big data open source query systems such as Hive, RedShift and Presto/Impala to select that …

Cost focus ignores cloud’s true value, says Wikibon

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

If you’re thinking of cloud computing solely as a money-saving alternative to captive infrastructure then you’re missing the whole point, asserts Wikibon cloud analyst Brian Gracely in his latest report, Moving to The Cloud: Key Impacts to Consider (available on Wikibon Premium). …

Teradata uses analytics to sniff out regulatory no-nos

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

In a bid for the hearts and minds of businesses in regulated industries, Teradata Corp. is introducing a packaged compliance solution that combs through digital communications to detect evidence of regulatory violations. The Teradata Communications Compliance Analytic Solution is aimed at the …

MariaDB adds OLAP support to transactional database engine

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

In a bid to expand its charter beyond the transactional database realm, MariaDB Inc. is extending the capabilities of its open source relational database with online analytic processing (OLAP) operations that work on the same data store. The company said MariaDB ColumnStore, …

Survey sees big growth for next-generation databases

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Results of a new survey by data-protection vendor Datos IO Inc. provides further evidence that scale-out distributed and NoSQL databases – or what Datos IO calls “next generation” databases – are poised for significant short-term growth. The survey of 204 database professionals …

Spark on track to drive big data market, says Wikibon analyst

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Early in his new report on adoption of Apache Spark in Systems of Intelligence on Wikibon Premium, Wikibon Analyst George Gilbert uses a wonderful analogy to describe the much-maligned performance limitations of the MapReduce processing framework: “If an entire program is like a …

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