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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Databricks kicks off an initiative to make AI agents easier to build and manage

Databricks Inc. today is kicking off what it calls the “Week of Agents” by introducing new and enhanced products that are intended to help enterprises confidently deploy and scale artificial intelligence agents. AI agents are autonomous or semi-autonomous programs that perceive their environment, make decisions and take actions to achieve specific goals with or without ...

Auxia lands $23.5M for personalized marketing platform

Auxia Inc. said it raised $23.5 million in Series A and seed funding to develop and sell its agentic artificial intelligence platform for personalized customer communications. The startup, which was founded by a team of former Google LLC executives, is focused on the data businesses collect through first-person interactions with customers but often don’t use. ...

Broadcom hopes converged network appliance will ease 5G struggles

Addressing what it says is a fragmented and ad hoc approach to network services deployment that has hampered wireless network deployment, Broadcom Inc. today debuted VeloSky, a converged networking appliance targeted at communications service providers that want to offer integrated fiber, cellular and satellite connectivity through a single appliance. Broadcom said it hopes to address the ...

Red Hat cozies up with telecom providers as open standards gain traction

Red Hat Inc. is taking advantage of the growing popularity of the Open Radio Access Network and the related Artificial Intelligence RAN specification to highlight a number of new partnerships it has forged with telecommunication providers, in announcements to be made at the MWC mobile world congress conference kicking off Monday in Barcelona. “One of ...

IDC debuts AI-fueled software procurement analysis service

Market research firm International Data Corp. today is releasing a new application aimed at helping enterprise executives simplify the software procurement process. IDC TechMatch uses generative artificial intelligence and IDC’s database of information about products and vendors to enable buyers to narrow buying criteria, evaluate vendors according to weighted preferences and generate draft requests for ...

Exclusive: ClarityQ raises $3.7M to apply AI to digital product usage analysis

Israeli startup ClarityQ Inc. today is launching with $3.7 million in pre-seed funding and plans to apply artificial intelligence to the often complex process of answering questions about technology product usage. Founded by a trio of entrepreneurs with a track record of previous startups and exits, the company employs technology that uses generative and agentic ...

Exclusive: Former Snowflake execs raise $5M for agentic AI that simplifies data operations

Genesis Computing Inc., a startup building generative and agentic artificial intelligence capabilities for use with cloud data management platforms, today said it has raised $5 million in seed funding. The company, which was founded last April by two former Snowflake Inc. executives, said it will use the funding to develop and sell AI agents that ...

Dell rolls out cloud transformation services for telecom providers

Dell Technologies Inc. today is announcing a cloud transformation program, services and new servers aimed specifically at communications service providers. Dell has been on a two-year campaign to win the hearts and minds of telecom firms, many of which use vertically integrated and aging equipment that is difficult to modernize and scale. The growing popularity of reference architecture called Open ...

Backblaze CFO says restructuring should lift its stock out of the doldrums

Backblaze Inc., a provider of cloud storage and services, said today that its fourth-quarter revenue rose 18% year-over-year, to $33.8 million, on strong growth in its cloud storage business, and it expects revenue growth to accelerate through the rest of this year. The quarterly net loss of $3 million narrowed from $5.5 million a year ...

Red Hat broadens virtualization options in latest OpenShift release

Red Hat Inc. is adding features aimed at improving security, simplifying operations and enhancing virtualization management in the latest release of OpenShift 4.18, its Kubernetes-powered hybrid cloud application platform, which is available today. Citing recent Gartner Inc. research that found that many operations teams are reevaluating their virtualization choices because of licensing changes, Red Hat ...