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

Starburst $250M funding round boosts valuation to $3.35B

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial distribution of the Trino distributed SQL query engine, today kicks off its Datanova conference with the announcement that it has raised a $250 million late-stage funding round that values the company at $3.35 billion. Starburst, …

IBM flash storage line gets ransomware protection

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is bringing some of its mainframe data protection to users of its flash storage arrays and also refreshing the flash line with new models that are faster and can share data transparently both on-premises and in the cloud. The IBM …

Torii snags $50M in funding to help organizations control SaaS sprawl

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Torii Labs Ltd., maker of a platform that helps businesses manage the proliferation of software-as-a-service applications, today said it raised $50 million in Series B financing, bringing its total funding to $65 million. The company is addressing a rapidly growing need in …

Red Hat adds persistent storage to OpenShift Platform suite

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat Inc. today announced that Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation – a type of software-defined storage for the modular and portable operating environments called containers — is now included in Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus hybrid cloud platform. …

Juniper adds cloud firewall to growing SASE line

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Juniper Networks Inc. is extending its presence in the secure access service edge or SASE market with a cloud-based firewall-as-a-service offering introduced today. The cloud service can be managed by its Security Director Cloud, a single portal for on-premises, cloud-based security and …

Database provider MariaDB to take the SPAC route to the public market

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

MariaDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the open-source MariaDB database management system, will become a publicly traded company via a merger with Angel Pond Holdings Corp. in a transaction known as a special-purpose acquisition company or SPAC. A SPAC is …

SAP beats forecasts, but weaker margins beat down stock price

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

SAP SE today reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ expectations thanks to growing momentum in its cloud business. However, investors sent the stock down nearly 6% in early trading on forecasts of a decline in operating profits and margins …

Supply chain intelligence provider o9 raises nearly $300M on $2.7B valuation

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

O9 Solutions Inc., makers of a platform for managing supply chains in vertical industries, today said it raised $295 million in funding on a valuation of $2.7 billion. That’s nearly triple the valuation the company earned when it announced a $100 million …

SiteAware raises $15M for its digital twin technology for construction

APPS By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

SiteAware Inc., a startup in the rapidly growing construction technology market, today announced a $15 million funding round to build and sell its digital construction verification technology. The Series B funding round brings the company’s total cash raised to $30 million. The …

Google and ZoomInfo partner on BigQuery integration

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Google LLC’s cloud computing unit and ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. today announced a partnership that will make ZoomInfo’s business-to-business data available directly from Google’s BigQuery data warehouse. The companies said the partnership is the beginning of a series of joint product development projects …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Starburst $250M funding round boosts valuation to $3.35B

IBM flash storage line gets ransomware protection

Torii snags $50M in funding to help organizations control SaaS sprawl

Red Hat adds persistent storage to OpenShift Platform suite

Juniper adds cloud firewall to growing SASE line

Database provider MariaDB to take the SPAC route to the public market

SAP beats forecasts, but weaker margins beat down stock price

Supply chain intelligence provider o9 raises nearly $300M on $2.7B valuation

SiteAware raises $15M for its digital twin technology for construction

Google and ZoomInfo partner on BigQuery integration

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