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

How culture slows the path to data literacy

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

In his new book, “Fail Fast, Learn Faster,” Randy Bean uses exhaustive anecdotal evidence to make the case that businesses must become data-driven or risk irrelevance. Bean, who is the founder of data-focused consultancy NewVantage Partners, has been evangelizing that message for …

Snowflake brightens Wall Street gloom with blowout quarter

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Snowflake Inc. provided a ray of sunshine in what has otherwise been an awful, horrible, very bad week on Wall Street with an earnings report today that showed revenue more than doubling in the most recent quarter and strong guidance. The cloud …

NetApp posts strong results as shift to hybrid cloud services bears fruit

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

NetApp’s corporate transformation from a storage maker to a provider of hybrid cloud data services and data management continues to make progress. The company today reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $1.28 per share, up 22% from a year ago and beating consensus …

HPE shares drop on revenue miss but execs say demand is strong

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. reported fiscal fourth-quarter profits that beat consensus estimates, but the company’s stock lost more than 2% after hours as revenues fell just short of expectations. Revenue of $7.35 billion was up 2% from a year ago, or flat …

Quinyx raises $50M as investor interest in intelligent workforce scheduling grows

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Stockholm-based workforce management software provider Quinyx AB today announced a $50 million Series C funding round to expand its U. S. presence, fund acquisitions and invest in the intelligence features of its core product. The company’s platform enables organizations to automate, optimize …

Starburst now runs distributed queries across all three major cloud platforms

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Starburst Data Inc., which sells the commercial distribution of the Trino distributed SQL query engine, today introduced what it says is the first software-as-a-service analytics package that can assess data across multiple clouds. Starburst Galaxy, which the company introduced in February, is …

Why your cloud computing costs are so high – and what you can do about them

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Small mistakes in the cloud can have big consequences. John Purcell, chief product officer at custom developer DoiT International Ltd., tells of one customer who made a keystroke error that caused the company to spin up an Amazon Web Services Inc. instance …

Grassroots effort helps JPMorgan Chase ease the tech skills crisis

PEOPLE By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has found a way to boost employee morale, stem attrition and build its employees’ technology skills. And it’s doing it for the price of pizza and doughnuts. For the past five years, the financial services giant has been …

VMware beats estimates but investors want to see more subscription growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

VMWare Inc.’s third-quarter sales and earnings beat analysts’ estimates on healthy 11% sales growth as the company’s message of helping customers move to multicloud environments appeared to be hitting home. “It’s clear that multicloud will be the model for digital business for the …

Cloud security unicorn Lacework lands record-busting $1.3B funding round

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

When Lacework Inc. raised $525 million in a Series D round back in January, it billed the investment as one of the largest in the history of the cybersecurity industry. With an additional $1.3 billion in funding announced today, the security analytics …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

How culture slows the path to data literacy

Snowflake brightens Wall Street gloom with blowout quarter

HPE shares drop on revenue miss but execs say demand is strong

Quinyx raises $50M as investor interest in intelligent workforce scheduling grows

Starburst now runs distributed queries across all three major cloud platforms

Grassroots effort helps JPMorgan Chase ease the tech skills crisis

VMware beats estimates but investors want to see more subscription growth

Cloud security unicorn Lacework lands record-busting $1.3B funding round

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