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

Ahana rolls out “forever free” managed Presto service and takes $7.2M in additional funding

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Ahana Cloud Inc., which offers managed and commercial versions of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, today announced an additional investment of $7.2 million from Liberty Global Ventures BV with participation from existing investor GV Management Co LLC. The funding expands the company’s …

Snowflake bids for transactional and data science workloads in broad set of enhancements

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Snowflake Inc. is leading off its Snowflake Summit 2022 conference today with a brace of announcements aimed at making its platform more programmable, flexible and accommodating of a greater variety of workloads, including transactions. The company, which has been chastened by slowing growth …

Data mesh creator: Standards needed to avoid ‘potential for abuse and misuse’

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Having fired the imagination of the data analytics industry with her concept of a data mesh, Zhamak Dehghani has taken the natural next step and written a book about it. “Data Mesh: Delivering data-driven value at scale” covers not just the technology …

Databricks adds data lineage feature to its catalog with support for nontraditional uses

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Databricks Inc. today is adding data lineage features to its Unity Catalog governance platform, a move that it says significantly expands data governance capabilities on the hybrid data warehouse or data lake that it calls a lakehouse. Data lineage describes how data …

Immuta scoops up $100M for its data-level security technology

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Data security startup Immuta Inc. today said it has raised a $100 million late-stage funding round that pegs the company’s valuation at $1 billion. The maker of software that secures access at the data level said the Series E round brings the …

Stellate raises $25M to build a global CDN network based on GraphQL

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

GraphCDN Inc. today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A funding round and is changing its name to Stellate Inc., a word meaning star-shaped. The series A round brings the total the company has raised to $30 million. The new …

Software AG set to raise growth targets, CEO says

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

As he nears the four-year anniversary of his appointment as chief executive of Software AG, Sanjay Brahmawar is spending little time looking back at his accomplishments. There’s a new five-year plan to prepare. It has been an eventful six months for the …

CIOs welcome users’ bid for more IT budget control – mostly

APPS By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

When Richard Wiedenbeck became chief information officer of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. 12 years ago, he encountered a siloed business structure in which each business unit fulfilled its own information technology needs. “IT was treated as back-office order-taking operation to an unhealthy …

Element brings semantic data platform to Azure Digital Twin cloud service

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Element Analytics Inc., maker of a semantic data platform for use in industrial settings, today announced the availability of its Unify data management platform on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Digital Twins cloud service. A digital twin is a software rendering of a physical …

Snowflake shares tumble as growth slows

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN4 YEARS AGO

Shares of once-high-flying software unicorn Snowflake Inc. are finally falling to earth. The stock price of the cloud data warehousing provider fell nearly 14% after-hours today on a weaker-than-expected full-year forecast amid signs of a slowdown in spending by large enterprise customers. …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Ahana rolls out “forever free” managed Presto service and takes $7.2M in additional funding

Data mesh creator: Standards needed to avoid ‘potential for abuse and misuse’

Databricks adds data lineage feature to its catalog with support for nontraditional uses

Immuta scoops up $100M for its data-level security technology

Stellate raises $25M to build a global CDN network based on GraphQL

Software AG set to raise growth targets, CEO says

CIOs welcome users’ bid for more IT budget control – mostly

Element brings semantic data platform to Azure Digital Twin cloud service

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