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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Gartner sees strong bounceback in global tech spending led by cloud and devices

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Worldwide information technology spending is projected to total $4.2 trillion in 2021, up of 8.6% from 2020, according to a new forecast today by Gartner Inc. After a trough amid the pandemic-related slowdown in 2020, when spending grew just 0.9%, investments are accelerating ahead of anticipated revenue growth despite the current sluggishness. Business leaders are more ...

Platform9 adds KubeVirt support for integrated container and virtual machine management

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Platform9 Systems Inc. today added support for KubeVirt, an interface for running virtual machines alongside the encapsulated software environments called containers, to its platform for managing workloads with the Kubernetes container orchestrator. Platform9 Managed KubeVirt is being released as an open-source project that gives users running those hybrid workloads a single control plane. The product ...

Red Hat boost automation features in Kubernetes cluster management

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. today announced new automation features in version 2.3 of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, a tool that provides greater flexibility for managing and scaling hybrid and multicloud environments in a unified and automated way. The new release features integration with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, which is an enterprise ...

Broadcom reported in talks to buy closely held SAS Institute

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Broadcom Corp. is in talks to buy Cary, North Carolina-based SAS Institute Inc. in a deal that would value the closely held SAS at between $15 billion and $20 billion, according to a report today in The Wall Street Journal. Citing unnamed sources, the Journal said the deal could be finalized within weeks. It would give ...
ANALYSIS

JEDI contract cancellation could give DOD cloud strategy a needed reboot

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

In scrapping its $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Defense surprised no one except perhaps Microsoft Corp., which appeared to have stolen the deal from front-running Amazon Web Services Inc. nearly two years ago. With its reliance on a single cloud provider and a decade-long horizon in a ...

HPE buys query acceleration platform Ampool to boost Ezmeral hybrid cloud analytics

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. today said it has acquired Ampool Inc., a small maker of an open-source query acceleration platform used in business intelligence scenarios. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed. In a blog post, HPE said Ampool’s scalable data federation layer and multitiered acceleration engine will deliver a cloud-native SQL analytics engine that will become part ...

Microsoft issues urgent warning over newly discovered Windows security flaw

SECURITY - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has issued an urgent advisory notice recommending that Windows users immediately install an update to fix a serious vulnerability. The flaw, known as PrintNightmare, affects the Windows Print Spooler service. Attackers who can remotely execute the code can gain system-level privileges, including the ability to install software, modify or delete data and create ...
PROFILE

Neurodivergence is a gift for the password king of IBM’s X-Force cybersecurity team

SECURITY - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

As an elementary school student in the Canadian city of Calgary in Alberta, Dustin Heywood could barely grip a pencil. His handwriting was so bad that it often took hours to write a single page. Yet he was able to solve math and computer science problems far beyond his grade level. His condition confounded school ...

Red Hat boosts OpenShift to support a greater range of workloads

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Red Hat Inc. is rolling out Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 today, touting IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack and IPv6 single-stack support, new ways for users to define, version and track changes to their application delivery pipelines declaratively using Git repositories and a better developer experience. Red Hat said the improvements are meant to address the growing variety of ...

Kubernetes co-developers aim to make the container orchestration software ‘boring’

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Kubernetes, the orchestrator for the freestanding software operating environments called containers, has been described as the next Linux — meaning that it will soon be so ubiquitous that no one will even be aware that it’s there. That suits Craig McLuckie (pictured, right) and Joe Beda (left) just fine. The two VMware Inc. executives were ...