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

ClosedLoop raises $34 million to infuse data science into healthcare

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

ClosedLoop.ai Inc. said Tuesday it raised a $34 million Series B financing for its healthcare-specific data science platform, bringing its total funding to $48 million. The company’s software combines machine learning with a library of healthcare-specific training features and model templates. The platform …

Apollo Graph reels in $130 million to take GraphQL mainstream

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Investor thirst for technology that unites disparate data sources across organizations continues to intensify, as Apollo Graph Inc. today said it closed a new $130 million funding round. The Series D round brings its total funding to $183 million and valuation to $1.5 billion. Apollo …

Agora raises $33M to automate procurement in the construction industry

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Agora Systems Inc., a startup that automates procurement in the construction industry, today announced a $33 million funding round led by Tiger Global Management LLC. The Series B investment round brings the company’s total funding to over $44 million amid a period …

Talend adds Spark 3 support and cloud private link support to integration platform

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Data integration provider Talend Inc. is tightening security, improving self-service features and adding support for the latest release today of the Apache Spark analytics framework in a new version of its Talend Data Fabric. Talend now integrates natively with Spark 3.0, which …

Oracle targets data warehouse rivals with automated features for HeatWave MySQL service

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. today embellished the HeatWave database query accelerator it introduced last year with machine learning-based automation features that it says further improve performance. MySQL Autopilot, which is being introduced today, includes automated provisioning, parallel loading, data placement, query plan improvement, scheduling and …

Kyligence adds ad hoc exploration to its Apache Kylin-based analytics platform

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Kyligence Inc., the developer of an analytics platform based upon the Apache Kylin open-source distributed data warehouse, today announced a new version of its self-tuning analytics acceleration platform. The version 4.5 release features the addition of ad hoc exploration, an integrated ClickHouse open-source analytical …

Data warehousing has problems. A data mesh could be the solution

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Since its founding 13 years ago as an online shoe seller, Zalando SE has grown to become one of the largest e-commerce fashion retailers in Europe. Given its roots on the web, it’s not surprising that about 15% of the firm’s 14,000 …

AI development platform maker Dataiku’s $400 million in new funding pegs its value at $4.6 billion

AI By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Dataiku Inc., the maker of a data science platform targeted at artificial intelligence development, said it raised $400 million in a Series E funding round that boosts its valuation to $4.6 billion. That brings the company’s total funding to more than $646 …

VMware ports Horizon VDI to Microsoft’s Azure cloud

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. today is announcing that it will make substantially all of its VMware Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure available on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. Previously the service was available only on Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure. The move is part of a …

Ahana lands $20M to commercialize Presto distributed query engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Good times continue to roll in the database and analytics market. Ahana Cloud Inc., curator of a commercial version of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, today announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Third Point LLC, a hedge …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

ClosedLoop raises $34 million to infuse data science into healthcare

Apollo Graph reels in $130 million to take GraphQL mainstream

Agora raises $33M to automate procurement in the construction industry

Talend adds Spark 3 support and cloud private link support to integration platform

Oracle targets data warehouse rivals with automated features for HeatWave MySQL service

Kyligence adds ad hoc exploration to its Apache Kylin-based analytics platform

Data warehousing has problems. A data mesh could be the solution

AI development platform maker Dataiku’s $400 million in new funding pegs its value at $4.6 billion

VMware ports Horizon VDI to Microsoft’s Azure cloud

Ahana lands $20M to commercialize Presto distributed query engine

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