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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Dell touts simplification in broad upgrade of VxRail hyperconverged line

Dell Technologies Inc. is beefing up its VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure and adding an option for users to incorporate external third-party storage with a series of announcements tonight. The highlight of the multipart announcement is to “simplify operations and deployment from day zero through day two,” said Nancy Hurley, senior manager of program management for Dell’s ...

Surprise growth in data center business propels VMware past earnings estimates

VMware Inc.’s fiscal first-quarter earnings report highlighted both the progress the company is making in moving to a subscription sales model and the surprising resilience of corporate data centers. Revenues of $2.99 billion were better than analysts’ $2.95 billion estimates and earnings per share of $1.76 also beat estimates by four cents. Neither figure was ...

Okta reports strong growth, citing synergies from Auth0 acquisition

Okta Inc. today reported strong revenue and profit growth in its first fiscal quarter, highlighted by a 52% increase in its subscription backlog, but the identity and access management company issued mixed guidance for the second quarter and full year. Revenue for both is expected to come in ahead of estimates but forecast earnings-per-share is below ...

Databricks releases data-sharing protocol to open source

Databricks Inc. is using its Data + AI Summit today to launch a new open-source project called Delta Sharing that provides an open protocol for securely sharing data across organizations in real time, regardless of the platform on which the data resides. The company also announced reliability, governance and scalability enhancements to its “lakehouse,” the term it uses ...

Catalogic sells flagship business to IBM to focus on Kubernetes backup

Catalogic Software Inc. is selling off its flagship business to IBM Corp. to concentrate its resources on what it believes is a bigger opportunity in the cloud. The company announced today that IBM will buy its ECX copy data management business for an unspecific amount. Catalogic will focus instead on CloudCasa, a cloud-native data protection service. Spun ...

Five9 CEO: Virtual agents will transform our interaction with call centers

With a stock price that has tripled over the past two years and three straight quarters of strong financial performance under its belt, cloud contact center provider Five9 Inc. is on a roll. The San Ramon, California-based company’s software-as-a-service platform has caught the attention of business leaders over the past year as they scrambled to ...

French startup smells an opportunity in digital olfaction

Of the five human senses, smell gets the least respect. It’s the sense people say they would miss the least if they lost it, according to a 2018 YouGov America survey. Nearly half of adults between the ages of 22 and 30 surveyed by McCann Worldgroup said they would give up their sense of smell ...
CYBERSECURITY SPECIAL REPORT

COVID’s silver lining: The race to cloud-based cybersecurity quickens

When security integrator Optiv Security Inc. went into lockdowns more than a year ago, Chief Information Officer Sujan Turlapaty immediately realized what he was up against. “We went from managing 20 to 30 branch offices to 2,500 remote offices,” he said. “The attack surface was much bigger.” That has prompted the firm to overhaul its cybersecurity ...

Pure Storage boards Kubernetes train for software-defined management

Doubling down on the assets it purchased with the acquisition of Portworx Inc. last fall, Pure Storage Inc. today is enabling code-directed storage and data management along with unified visibility and support using the Kubernetes orchestrator for the portable operating platforms called containers. The new features, which are being introduced at the company’s Accelerate 2021 ...

VMware picks longtime executive Raghuram as new CEO

VMware Inc. today chose a longtime insider to lead the company through a major product line makeover and an impending spinoff from parent Dell Technologies Inc. Raghu Raghuram, 58, is currently executive vice president and chief operating officer of products and cloud services. He will take over as chief executive on June 1 following the departure ...