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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VMware to offer fully managed cloud storage-as-a-service

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. today is breaking out the technology it uses for its Cloud Disaster Recovery service and selling it as a cloud storage service. Cloud Flex Storage is described as a scalable, elastic and cloud-native offering that is fully managed by VMware and delivered with pay-as-you-go pricing on the VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services ...

Aruba simplifies distributed network management and adds self-locating WiFi access points

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Aruba networking subsidiary today announced enhancements to its Aruba Edge Services Platform that enable users to centralize the management of distributed networks. It’s also releasing what it says are the industry’s first self-locating indoor access points with built-in GPS receivers, as well as Open Locate, a proposed standard for sharing location ...

Snowflake targets retailers with its fourth industry cloud

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Snowflake Inc. today is launching its fourth industry-specific data cloud with an offering tailored for retailers and manufacturers of consumer packaged goods. The Retail Data Cloud combines Snowflake’s data platform with third-party software and datasets from partners. The announcement comes less than two weeks after the company rolled out its Healthcare & Life Sciences Data ...

Datagen lands $50M to build out its synthetic data platform for AI training

AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Datagen Technologies, the maker of a synthetic data platform that generates visual data for the training of computer vision systems, today said it closed a $50 million Series B financing round, bringing its total funding to $70 million. The company is creating a computer vision stack that can be used to simulate real-world images for ...

GreenLake expansion moves HPE closer to goal of ubiquitous ‘as-a-service’ availability

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced a broad expansion of its GreenLake platform that advances the company’s promise to eventually make its entire product portfolio available as a service. GreenLake is a  portfolio of hardware and software products that enterprises can buy on a pay-as-you-go basis instead of purchasing everything upfront. Highlights include the convergence of ...

Red Hat boost Nvidia support in OpenShift to encourage AI workload migration

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp.’s Red Hat subsidiary today announced new certifications and features for Red Hat OpenShift, its on-premises version of the Kubernetes service for managing the portable software environments called containers. Announcements include certification of OpenShift with Nvidia Corp.’s AI Enterprise 2.0 and the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.10. Noting that Gartner Inc. has said ...

COBOL modernization startup CloudFrame bags $7M Series A funding

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Mainframe modernization startup CloudFrame Inc., today is announcing that it has raised a $7 million Series A funding round, bringing its total financing to $8.5 million. The New York-based company has developed a technology that converts applications written in the COBOL programming language that was mainstream in business data processing until the mid-1980s into what ...

Global employer of record Omnipresent raises $120 million

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Omnipresent Group Ltd., the developer of a global employment platform that it delivers as a service, has raised $120 million in a Series B funding round to bring its total financing to nearly $138 million. The company is taking advantage of the new openness by businesses to employ people outside the workplace and even half ...

Dell releases reference designs for 3D software development in the metaverse

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Dell Technologies Inc. today announced two new validated designs for use by organizations that are building software for the three-dimensional virtual environments that characterize the metaverse. The metaverse is a network of 3-D virtual worlds that encompasses technologies such as virtual and augmented reality, blockchain, artificial intelligence, digital twins and smart objects. Markets such as ...

Cloud giants conquered the data center. Now they aim to transform every industry

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 YEARS AGO

Truist Financial Corp. is on a mission to change the way banking is done, and it’s looking to cloud platform providers to help it along. The firm, which was created when BB&T Corp. acquired SunTrust Banks Inc. in late 2019, is banking on a patent-pending cloud technology it created that gives customers of both of ...