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, OpenAI team up with $100M deal to simplify enterprise AI deployment

Databricks Inc. and OpenAI announced today that they have formed a multi-year partnership expected to generate more than $100 million in revenue. It makes OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT-5, natively available to the more than 20,000 Databricks customers worldwide. The deal is meant to simplify the deployment of artificial intelligence agents for enterprises, enabling them ...

Pure Storage launches cyber resilience, IT efficiency and hybrid cloud capabilities

Pure Storage Inc. today unveiled a series of technology updates spanning cyber resilience, hybrid cloud integration and artificial intelligence-driven data management as part of the Enterprise Data Cloud initiative it launched in June. The announcements, made at the company’s Pure//Accelerate conference, expand capabilities around unifying and securing data across on-premises, public cloud and hybrid environments. ...

Dell’s private cloud gets simpler management, better security

Dell Technologies Inc. today announced updates to its private cloud, storage and cyber resilience products, designed to help enterprises manage both modern and legacy workloads more efficiently while maintaining security and flexibility. The announcements span the Dell Automation Platform, Dell Private Cloud, NativeEdge edge infrastructure and storage platforms, including PowerStore, PowerFlex and PowerMax. New features ...

CData links AI systems to more than 300 data sources

CData Software Inc., the maker of a platform and drivers that connect data from multiple sources to applications, today announced a version of its product designed for artificial intelligence assistants, workflow builders and agent frameworks. The company said ConnectAI provides real-time, governed access to more than 300 enterprise data sources using the Model Context Protocol, ...

Exclusive: Creatio expands AI integration with ‘bring your own model’ support

Creatio Inc., the developer of a no-code platform for workflow automation and customer relationship management, announced new capabilities today that give enterprises greater control over artificial intelligence deployments. The centerpiece of the release is “bring your own model” feature, which allows customers to choose among leading large language models for interactions with the platform and ...

Snowflake-led coalition targets data fragmentation with vendor-neutral semantic standard

Snowflake Inc. and a group of partners today launched the Open Semantic Interchange initiative, an open-source effort to standardize how organizations define and share business semantics across data and analytics platforms. The initiative aims to create a vendor-neutral specification for business metrics, dimensions and metadata that can be used consistently across business intelligence tools, data ...

Rocket Software aims to future-proof Cobol with AI integration and cloud-ready enhancements

Information technology modernization specialist Rocket Software Inc. is integrating generative artificial intelligence and adding support for Arm processors in its line of Cobol modernization products. The update, announced Tuesday, aims to refresh Cobol-based systems, which are still used by an estimated 90% of Fortune 500 companies, without the risks and costs of complete rewrites. Although ...

MongoDB gives on-premises developers hybrid search and vector features

MongoDB Inc. today said its search and vector search features that had previously been confined to its Atlas cloud platform are now available for self-managed deployments, including MongoDB Community Edition and MongoDB Enterprise Server. The feature puts advanced artificial intelligence-building tools in the hands of millions of developers operating local and on-premises environments. Now in public ...

Mainframe confidence surges as modernization campaigns bear fruit

The mainframe, long the backbone of enterprise computing, is enjoying a surge of support as modernization projects bear fruit, according to BMC Software Inc.’s 20th annual mainframe survey. It found that 97% of respondents – all of whom are mainframe professionals — see the platform as a long-term part of information technology infrastructure that’s poised ...

MongoDB launches AI-powered service to modernize legacy applications

MongoDB Inc. is expanding beyond its database roots and taking aim at one of the thorniest challenges facing many enterprise IT organizations: outdated legacy applications. At its MongoDB.local New York City event today, the company is announcing the MongoDB Application Modernization Platform, an artificial intelligence-powered approach to transforming decades-old applications into modern, scalable services. The platform ...