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

SAS Institute says it plans to go public in 2024

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Just two weeks after SAS Institute Inc. reportedly backed out of talks to be acquired by Broadcom Inc., the company today issued a statement saying it plans to go public in 2024. The company said it will begin to take preparatory steps …

Strong sales growth calms nervous ServiceNow investors

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

ServiceNow Inc. today reported second-quarter revenue of $1.41 billion, well above analysts’ estimates of $1.36 billion and up 32% year-over-year. Profit of $1.42 per share also exceeded the $1.21 consensus. The results were driven by 27% growth in subscription revenues, to $1.33 …

Noetic Cyber emerges from stealth with security monitoring using a graph database

SECURITY By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Noetic Cyber, a firm founded by three veteran cybersecurity entrepreneurs, launched out of stealth mode today with $20 million in a Series A funding and an agentless technology that continuously monitors information technology assets and their relationships with each other. The company’s …

Microsoft blows past earnings estimates on continuing strong cloud growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. continued its recent record of smashing earnings expectations with fiscal fourth-quarter results that handily beat analyst estimates on growth in its cloud business that has accelerated since last quarter. The company reported sales of $46.2 billion today, up 21% from …

‘Digital twin’ developer Matterport goes public through SPAC transaction

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Matterport Inc., a maker of three-dimensional cameras and spatial data software, went public today on the Nasdaq exchange in a $640 million transaction with special-purpose acquisition company Gores Holdings VI Inc. A SPAC is essentially a publicly held shell company that is …

Software AG says it has turned the corner in shift to a subscription business

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Saying that a two-year campaign to transition its business from license to subscription revenue is bearing fruit, Darmstadt, Germany-based Software AG today said its second-quarter revenues grew 10%, to $257.4 million in constant currency, driven by a 17% jump in product revenue and …

Google’s Looker facelift aimed at enhancing developer appeal

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Google LLC is giving the Looker business intelligence platform it acquired early last year a major upgrade. A new release announced today features a developer portal, support for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure hosting, an interactive means to explore application programming interfaces and incremental persistent derived …

Dremio’s data lake query engine is now a managed cloud service

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Dremio Corp., developer of a self-service data analytics technology based on the Apache Arrow in-memory columnar data processing framework, today announced a version of its product delivered as a managed cloud service. Dremio Cloud leverages a no-copy data architecture that enables analytics …

Snowflake edges into security market through Securonix partnership

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

In a move that a Snowflake Inc. executive described as the company’s entry into the cybersecurity market, the data cloud company today announced an alliance with Securonix Inc., maker of a cloud-native security information and event management system. The deal is a …

Pure Storage makes FlashStack converged platform available as a service

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN5 YEARS AGO

Pure Storage Inc. today expanded its storage as-a-service options to include its FlashStack converged infrastructure product and also modified its Portworx cloud storage service to align costs to actual hours of usage. FlashStack, which was jointly developed by Pure Storage and Cisco Systems Inc. is …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

SAS Institute says it plans to go public in 2024

Strong sales growth calms nervous ServiceNow investors

Noetic Cyber emerges from stealth with security monitoring using a graph database

‘Digital twin’ developer Matterport goes public through SPAC transaction

Software AG says it has turned the corner in shift to a subscription business

Google’s Looker facelift aimed at enhancing developer appeal

Dremio’s data lake query engine is now a managed cloud service

Pure Storage makes FlashStack converged platform available as a service

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