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

IBM outsourcing deal validate’s Wikibon “mega-data center” vision

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

IBM’s massive nine-figure contract to help Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. upgrade its infrastructure and internal employee support operations over a five-year period is symbolic of a bigger transformation outlined by Wikibon cofounder David Floyer (below) in a concept he calls the “mega-data …

Former HP exec Veghte signs on as head SurveyMonkey

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Having spearheaded much of the strategy behind cleaving Hewlett-Packard Co. in two, Bill Veght will face a very different challenge in his new role: Pulling together a company that’s coping with grief. SurveyMonkey, Inc., a fast-growing provider of online research tools, today announced that Veghte would …

Ask a Wikibon Analyst – How big a deal is Apache Spark really?

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

In the world of Big Data, 2015 is rapidly shaping up as the year of Spark. The Apache analytics engine has captured the industry’s imagination and prompted some people to predict that Spark will be a bigger deal than Hadoop, which was …

HP loses another top exec as it prepares to detail breakup plans

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

A little over a year ago, Hewlett-Packard Co. Enterprise Group EVP Bill Veghte kicked off the company’s Discover conference by proclaiming “HP is back.” However, he won’t be around to enjoy a victory lap. HP announced this morning that Veghte is leaving the …

Analytics transform sales reporting at 130-year-old industrial supplier

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

When your company sells 400,000 distinct items with a half million SKUs in a configure-to-order business across 100 countries, record-keeping can be a challenge. That was the case at A. W. Chesterton Co., a 120-year-old industrial supplier, before an analytics dashboard gave …

Blazent gives its IT insight platform a Big Data boost

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

IT operations intelligence firm Blazent, Inc. is giving its data discovery and quality management platform a Big Data makeover with a series of enhancements aimed at improving scalability and speed. Blazent’s software reaches out to assets across the enterprise – ranging from …

Capriza enhances its toolset for simplifying mobile apps

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Capriza, Inc. has enhanced its mobile app customization suite with improved usability, speed and personalization. The company, which has raised more than $50 million from a blue-chip list of investors, has a novel approach to making enterprise applications more usable on mobile devices. …

Oracle’s audacious cloud strategy just might work, analysts say

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Can Oracle, a late entrant in the cloud infrastructure market, really achieve its audacious goal of going to head-to-head with Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Many people think so. In rolling out 24 new cloud services yesterday and committing itself to basically putting …

Ask a Wikibon analyst: Can Nutanix challenge the virtualization leader?

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

A feisty Nutanix, Inc. came out swinging at its recent user conference, taking on virtualization kingpin VMware, Inc. and seemingly setting its sights on Amazon Web Services in its bid to make data center infrastructure invisible. Nutanix, which is perhaps the hottest …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Former HP exec Veghte signs on as head SurveyMonkey

Ask a Wikibon Analyst – How big a deal is Apache Spark really?

HP loses another top exec as it prepares to detail breakup plans

Analytics transform sales reporting at 130-year-old industrial supplier

Blazent gives its IT insight platform a Big Data boost

Capriza enhances its toolset for simplifying mobile apps

Oracle’s audacious cloud strategy just might work, analysts say

Ask a Wikibon analyst: Can Nutanix challenge the virtualization leader?

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