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.

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Broadcom reported in talks to buy closely held SAS Institute

Broadcom Corp. is in talks to buy Cary, North Carolina-based SAS Institute Inc. in a deal that would value the closely held SAS at between $15 billion and $20 billion, according to a report today in The Wall Street Journal. Citing unnamed sources, the Journal said the deal could be finalized within weeks. It would give ...
ANALYSIS

JEDI contract cancellation could give DOD cloud strategy a needed reboot

In scrapping its $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Defense surprised no one except perhaps Microsoft Corp., which appeared to have stolen the deal from front-running Amazon Web Services Inc. nearly two years ago. With its reliance on a single cloud provider and a decade-long horizon in a ...

HPE buys query acceleration platform Ampool to boost Ezmeral hybrid cloud analytics

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. today said it has acquired Ampool Inc., a small maker of an open-source query acceleration platform used in business intelligence scenarios. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed. In a blog post, HPE said Ampool’s scalable data federation layer and multitiered acceleration engine will deliver a cloud-native SQL analytics engine that will become part ...

Microsoft issues urgent warning over newly discovered Windows security flaw

Microsoft Corp. has issued an urgent advisory notice recommending that Windows users immediately install an update to fix a serious vulnerability. The flaw, known as PrintNightmare, affects the Windows Print Spooler service. Attackers who can remotely execute the code can gain system-level privileges, including the ability to install software, modify or delete data and create ...
PROFILE

Neurodivergence is a gift for the password king of IBM’s X-Force cybersecurity team

As an elementary school student in the Canadian city of Calgary in Alberta, Dustin Heywood could barely grip a pencil. His handwriting was so bad that it often took hours to write a single page. Yet he was able to solve math and computer science problems far beyond his grade level. His condition confounded school ...

Red Hat boosts OpenShift to support a greater range of workloads

Red Hat Inc. is rolling out Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 today, touting IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack and IPv6 single-stack support, new ways for users to define, version and track changes to their application delivery pipelines declaratively using Git repositories and a better developer experience. Red Hat said the improvements are meant to address the growing variety of ...

Kubernetes co-developers aim to make the container orchestration software ‘boring’

Kubernetes, the orchestrator for the freestanding software operating environments called containers, has been described as the next Linux — meaning that it will soon be so ubiquitous that no one will even be aware that it’s there. That suits Craig McLuckie (pictured, right) and Joe Beda (left) just fine. The two VMware Inc. executives were ...

Illumio joins security unicorn club with $225M late-stage investment

In another sign of investors’ eagerness to buy into the surging interest in zero-trust security, Illumio Inc. said it raised $225 million in a new late-stage round that carries a $2.75 billion “unicorn” valuation. The Series F round was led by Thoma Bravo LLC with participation by Franklin Templeton Financial Services Corp. and Owl Rock ...

Transmit Security raises record $543M funding round to rid the world of passwords

Transmit Security Ltd., the newest entrant in the race to rid the world of passwords, early today said it has raised a record-setting $543 million funding round that values the company at $2.2 billion and marks what it says is the largest Series A funding of any cybersecurity company in history. The company, which was ...

Neo4j’s $325M funding round lifts fortunes of graph database industry

In a major shot in the arm for the graph database industry, market leader Neo4j Inc. today announced it has raised $325 million in what it says is the largest-ever venture capital round for a private database company. The Series F venture capital round brings its total funding to $515 million and bestows upon it ...