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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IBM nudges DB2 toward hybrid analytical role

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 9 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is refreshing its 34-year-old DB2 relational database management system with features that mirror those of the increasingly popular breed of hybrid transactional/analytical databases, while at the same time making it easier for developers to get started via a community edition that can be deployed to a variety of computer systems via software containers. ...

IBM gives Apache Atlas a General Data Protection Regulation boost

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 9 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is  utilizing Apache Atlas data governance and metadata framework as a kind of open source operating system to help customers comply with the European Union’s forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation, perhaps better-known as GDPR The moves include new data governance tools, the opening of new data science and machine learning education centers in London and Boblingen, ...

Red Hat’s comeback rolls on, thanks to a surging application development business

INFRA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 9 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. blew past consensus estimates on both revenue and profits for its first fiscal quarter of 2018 on a surge in its application development-related business, leading it to raise revenue and earnings estimates for the rest of the year. After-hours investors applauded by sending the stock up nearly 10 percent. The Raleigh, North ...

Comtrade keys on simplicity with data protection software for Nutanix servers

INFRA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 9 YEARS AGO

Comtrade Software Solutions GmbH is targeting users of Nutanix Inc.’s hyperconverged infrastructure with what it says is the first purpose-built data protection applications for the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Called HYCU, which stands for Hyperconverged Uptime, the software takes four minutes of ramp-up learning, three minutes to deploy and two minutes to recover identified data, the company claimed. ...

Cray brings integrated analytics suite to its high-end supercomputers

INFRA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 9 YEARS AGO

Venerable supercomputer maker Cray Inc. today is announcing an analytics software suite for its XC family of supercomputers that includes a variety of graph analytics, deep learning and big-data analytics tools. With the Cray Urika-XC software suite, analytics and artificial intelligence workloads can run alongside scientific modeling and simulations without the need to move data between ...

Iowa City beat cop invents a novel solution to the computer theft epidemic

INFRA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 9 YEARS AGO

By day, Officer David Schwindt of the Iowa City Police Department bikes or walks the streets of the downtown pedestrian mall, stopping to chat with shoppers and handing out small necessities such as clean socks to the homeless people who live there. By night and on weekends, he builds technology that has the potential to ...

BMC empowers DevOps software development with free workflow simulator

EMERGING TECH - BY PAUL GILLIN - 9 YEARS AGO

BMC Software Inc. is targeting DevOps devotees with Control-M Workbench, a no-cost, self-service, standalone development environment that builds upon the capability of the Control-M Automation application programming interface it introduced last year. The API enables developers in a DevOps environment to automate workflows in a self-service process that’s compatible with DevOps’ agile release philosophy, which involves software developers ...

SAP ports planning suite to Hana warehouse

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 9 YEARS AGO

SAP SE is giving its customers another nudge toward adopting its Hana hybrid transactional/analytical database with the announcement today of the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 11.0 for SAP Business Warehouse/4Hana. Billed as a unified platform for planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation, the new version exploits specific features of the BW/4Hana in-memory data warehouse ...

GE targets power industry with broad Predix update

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 9 YEARS AGO

General Electric Co. is letting no grass grow under the feet of its Predix platform-as-a-service for the industrial Internet of Things. After recently signing a deal to test its instrumentation software at Invenergy LLC following the earlier acquisition of two data intelligence startups, the company said Monday it’s expanding its power and utility portfolio to connect energy ...

Security firm Vidder can now foil attackers at the application level

INFRA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 9 YEARS AGO

Vidder Inc. has added endpoint trust assessment to its PrecisionAccess software-defined perimeter product, which provides access protection at the software application level. The company’s approach is based upon the Software-Defined Perimeter initiative that is being developed by the Cloud Security Alliance. SDP is essentially an evolution of network access control, or NAC, that provides a finer-grained level ...