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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Microsoft vanquishes estimates but investors beat down shares after-hours

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

The rich get richer. On a day when Microsoft Corp. briefly became only the second company to be worth $2 trillion, it announced fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue that easily beat analysts’ estimates. But its stock fell more than 2% in after-hours trading as investors took profits following a 13% run-up in the previous month. ...

VMware now lets developers provision virtual machines within Kubernetes environments

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. is tightening its embrace of the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers today with the release of the Virtual Machine Service for its VMware vSphere 7 virtualization platform, which also incorporates its Tanzu application modernization portfolio. The feature is intended to make it easier for application developers working with software containers to provision their ...

IBM’s new software-defined storage is optimized for software containers

INFRA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. today announced container-native software-defined storage and, by association, its entry into the hyperconverged infrastructure market with an appliance of its own making. The company is also revamping its model ESS 5000 subsystem with 10% greater storage capacity and introducing a new ESS 3200 array that has double the read performance of its predecessor. ...

Cigent scores $7.6M for its file-level security technology

SECURITY - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Cigent Technology Inc. today said it closed a $7.6M Series A funding round to develop and sell its technology that protects against ransomware, data theft and malicious insider attacks by applying security at the file level. Cigent Data Defense uses both software and hardware to prevent data from being stolen even after a network has ...

Lob’s personalized direct mail service lands on Salesforce.com’s App Exchange

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Lob.com Inc., the maker of a direct mail platform undergirded by data analytics, announced today that it is now available on Salesforce.com Inc.’s AppExchange under a partnership with developer Veezla Inc. Salesforce.com users can use the service to send personalized letters, postcards and checks at scale without having to leave the Salesforce environment. Reporting and ...

SAP posts strong earnings on fastest new cloud growth in five years

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

SAP SE’s profits rose sharply in its first fiscal quarter, helped by strong growth in its cloud business, but revenues came in flat, in line with earlier guidance. Even so, the German software giant said it’s bullish on full-year results as customer migrations to the cloud accelerate. Total revenue rose 2% in constant-currency terms, to ...

Latest Gartner forecast confirms it: Rush to the cloud is on

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

By all accounts, business spending on cloud services accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Gartner Inc.’s new 2021 cloud computing forecast confirms it. The research firm said today it expects worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services to grow 23.1% in 2021, to $332.3 billion, up from the 19% growth in 2020. “The events of last ...

VMware supports distributed workforces with SASE security, global POP network

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. today extended its Workspace ONE endpoint management technology to provide better support for distributed workforces. The new package delivers desktop and application virtualization, cloud-native endpoint and workload protection and cloud-based security based on secure access service edge or SASE principles. VMware Anywhere Workspace integrates the Carbon Black Cloud security technology it picked up ...

Dell spiffs up PowerStore intelligence and debuts low-end storage model

INFRA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

Calling the PowerStore storage product line it introduced last year “the fastest-ramping new architecture in our company’s history,” Dell Technologies Inc. today is refreshing the product with improved speed and automation and also introducing a low-cost entry port starting at $28,000. Dell has had high expectations for PowerStore to jumpstart its growth in the midrange ...

IBM surprises investors with return to growth in first quarter

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 YEARS AGO

After four consecutive quarters of revenue declines, IBM Corp. surprised investors today with 1% growth in quarterly revenue, sending its stock up more than 3% in after-hours trading and raising hopes that other technology giants could report similar surprises in the coming weeks. Revenue rose to $17.73 billion from the same quarter a year ago and ...