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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Report finds insiders are a bigger data exposure risk than most executives think

SECURITY - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

A record 47 million Americans quit their jobs voluntarily in 2021, and apparently many took sensitive information with them. That’s the conclusion that emerges from a new report by data detection and response firm Cyberhaven Inc. The company analyzed 372,000 incidents of data exfiltration — or the unauthorized transfer of sensitive information from one system ...

Oracle NetSuite gets slew of new features

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp.’s NetSuite subsidiary is using its SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas today to announce a broad set of enhancements to its suite of financial and human resources applications for midsized businesses. Highlights include improved accounts payable automation, a configure/price/quote or CPQ utility, and a mobile application that aids in packing and shipping. NetSuite AP ...

JPMorgan Chase convenes first global conference for its data scientists and software engineers

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Large enterprises rarely publicize their internal meetings, but financial services giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. is taking the unusual step of telling the world about its first global conference of software engineers and data scientists that convenes today at the company’s Global Technology Center in Dallas. The event, called Devup, was created and designed by ...

SAS launches first cloud app with pay-as-you-go pricing

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

SAS Institute Inc. is making one of its top software applications available on a pay-as-you-go basis for the first time with today’s announcement that its Viya analytics platform is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The announcement represents an evolution in thinking at the 46-year-old maker of statistics and analytics software. Although the company ...

Wasabi vaults to unicorn status with $250M in new funding

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

When it comes to cloud storage, simplicity apparently sells. Wasabi Technologies Inc., which sells low-cost storage-as-a-service based on a simple pricing model, said today that it has secured $250 million in new funding. The funding includes Series D equity financing of $125 million and a $125 million expansion of its existing debt facility. It brings the ...

Conduktor says it has an easier way for developers to work with Kafka

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Conduktor Inc., a startup that focuses on simplifying the use of the popular Apache Kafka data streaming platform, is readying a Sept. 27 launch of its platform and says it already has a long list of pre-production customers. Kafka is an open-source platform used by more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies to manage data ...

CoderPad adds front-end frameworks to aid managers in hiring developers

APPS - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

CoderPad Inc., maker of an assessment platform for candidates for technical jobs, today is rolling out front-end and back-end frameworks to help managers make more informed hiring decisions. The frameworks includes the React JavaScript library for building user interfaces, Angular JavaScript-based framework for developing single-page applications, Vue JavaScript framework for user interface design, Svelte JavaScript ...

Israeli security startup Sentra plants its flag in the US

SECURITY - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Israeli cloud security startup Sentra Inc. is entering the U.S. market today with the opening of its North American headquarters in New York City. Founded last year, the firm is tackling the growing problem of organizations losing control of their data as they migrate to the cloud.  Claiming that “the vast majority of business leaders ...

Palo Alto Networks adds software supply chain attack protections to its cloud platform

SECURITY - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Palo Alto Networks Inc. today introduced what it says is the industry’s first runtime context-aware software composition analysis system that helps developers identify open-source software components that are safe to use. The SCA functions will be integrated with Prisma Cloud, the company’s cloud-native application protection platform. Software supply chain attacks, in which bad actors exploit ...

IBM offers dedicated snapshot protection for SAP HANA and Salesforce environments

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. today announced that it has enhanced its Spectrum Sentinel backup system to provide workload-specific data protection for SAP SE’s HANA and Salesforce Inc.’s namesake customer relationship management software. IBM Spectrum Sentinel for SAP HANA performs ransomware anomaly analysis of immutable primary storage snapshots with automated recovery orchestration. A snapshot is a set of ...