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 flash storage line gets ransomware protection

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. is bringing some of its mainframe data protection to users of its flash storage arrays and also refreshing the flash line with new models that are faster and can share data transparently both on-premises and in the cloud. The IBM FlashSystem Cyber Vault is a software offering aimed at helping businesses better detect ...

Torii snags $50M in funding to help organizations control SaaS sprawl

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Torii Labs Ltd., maker of a platform that helps businesses manage the proliferation of software-as-a-service applications, today said it raised $50 million in Series B financing, bringing its total funding to $65 million. The company is addressing a rapidly growing need in enterprises as business users assume greater control for their own software choices. A ...

Red Hat adds persistent storage to OpenShift Platform suite

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat Inc. today announced that Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation – a type of software-defined storage for the modular and portable operating environments called containers — is now included in Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus hybrid cloud platform. The addition gives developers access to persistent storage that can span clouds and ...

Juniper adds cloud firewall to growing SASE line

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Juniper Networks Inc. is extending its presence in the secure access service edge or SASE market with a cloud-based firewall-as-a-service offering introduced today. The cloud service can be managed by its Security Director Cloud, a single portal for on-premises, cloud-based security and cloud-delivered security. It exactly duplicates the functions of the company’s on-premises and virtualized firewalls. ...

Database provider MariaDB to take the SPAC route to the public market

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

MariaDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the open-source MariaDB database management system, will become a publicly traded company via a merger with Angel Pond Holdings Corp. in a transaction known as a special-purpose acquisition company or SPAC. A SPAC is essentially a publicly held shell company that is formed for the purpose of ...

SAP beats forecasts, but weaker margins beat down stock price

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

SAP SE today reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ expectations thanks to growing momentum in its cloud business. However, investors sent the stock down nearly 6% in early trading on forecasts of a decline in operating profits and margins as well as forecasts of a weaker free cash flow in 2022. Earnings ...

Supply chain intelligence provider o9 raises nearly $300M on $2.7B valuation

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

O9 Solutions Inc., makers of a platform for managing supply chains in vertical industries, today said it raised $295 million in funding on a valuation of $2.7 billion. That’s nearly triple the valuation the company earned when it announced a $100 million private investment from KKR & Co. Inc. in April 2020. Founded in 2009, ...

SiteAware raises $15M for its digital twin technology for construction

APPS - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

SiteAware Inc., a startup in the rapidly growing construction technology market, today announced a $15 million funding round to build and sell its digital construction verification technology. The Series B funding round brings the company’s total cash raised to $30 million.  The latest funding round was led by Vertex Ventures Israel, with participation from existing ...

Google and ZoomInfo partner on BigQuery integration

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Google LLC’s cloud computing unit and ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. today announced a partnership that will make ZoomInfo’s business-to-business data available directly from Google’s BigQuery data warehouse. The companies said the partnership is the beginning of a series of joint product development projects and integrations that will leverage ZoomInfo’s database. ZoomInfo maintains records of more than 106 ...

Revelstoke aims to take the coding out of cybersecurity automation and response

SECURITY - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Two-year-old startup Revelstoke Security Inc. today launched itself into the security orchestration, automation and response or SOAR market with a product built on a single data plane that simplifies the process of gathering and analyzing security data. Revelstoke has raised more than $13 million in Series A funding from ClearSky Ventures, Crosslink Capital Inc., and ...