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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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Bug-tracking app has broad payoff for travel search firm

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

The hotly competitive online travel market doesn’t tolerate inefficiency. Global travel search site Skyscanner Ltd. discovered that a tool it employed to improve bug tracking in the IT organization had much broader efficiency benefits across the 770-person company. Founded in 2003, Skyscanner is …

MemSQL5 seeks to bridge transaction, analytics processing

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

MemSQL, a scalable SQL-based in-memory distributed database, is getting major performance enhancements in version 5, announced today at Strata+Hadoop World in San Jose, CA. Most significant is the addition of technology to deliver low-latency query compilation for interactive data exploration through the …

Apache Flink creators snag $6M for stream-processing startup

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Just when you thought you had finally wrapped your brain around the importance of Apache Spark for event processing, there’s a new real-time player to consider. Data Artisans, a startup founded by the original creators of the Apache Flink stream data processing framework, is …

EMC’s flash strategy – simplified

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Amid turmoil in the storage industry driven by customers’ rapid adoption of flash technology, software-defined infrastructure and hyper-convergence, EMC has come under some fire for offering a confusing product strategy. Between its homegrown VMAX and XtremIO arrays and the technology it acquired with …

Oracle bids to take hybrid cloud to the next level

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Although late to the cloud, Oracle appears to be intent on making up for lost time. The company made a strong bid for leadership in the market for hybrid clouds today with a series of announcements ta Oracle CloudWorld in Washington under the …

Game of Thrones mania gets cloudy

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

The folks at CloudEndure, a cloud-based disaster recovery and data migration service provider, tell us they’re big Game of Thrones fans. They’re also pretty good at content marketing. For the third year, CloudEndure has scrubbed the Amazon Web Services Marketplace to find …

Red Hat becomes first $2 billion open-source software vendor

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

It turns out there is money to be made in open source. Red Hat Inc. beat Wall Street expectations and edged over the $2 billion annual revenue threshold, reporting fourth-quarter revenues of $544 million, beating analyst estimates of $534 million. Revenues were …

Cloudera certification boosts DataRobot’s machine learning platform

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Well-funded data science startup DataRobot Inc. it taking a big step into the enterprise market by achieving the highest level certification on Cloudera Inc.’s Enterprise 5, the most popular commercial Hadoop platform. Top-level certification means that the DataRobot predictive analytics engine can now …

MapR adds Docker support, bulks up security on converged platform

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

MapR Technologies, Inc. today is adding support for persistent, stateful Docker containers along with security and performance improvements that make it easier for organizations to run Docker and analytics operations across a mix of Hadoop and non-Hadoop file systems. The company’s Converged …

B2B marketers grumble about ad spending results

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

B2B marketers see a lot of room for improvement overall in their digital advertising programs, but at least they’re happy with the advertising results their ads on social networks deliver, according to a new report by Demandbase Inc. The results of the …

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