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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Oracle boosts gen AI support in its Fusion Cloud suite

Oracle Corp. is expanding the range of generative artificial intelligence capabilities in its Fusion Cloud applications suite to cover uses in enterprise resource planning, human capital management, supply chain and customer experience. Fusion Data Intelligence, a cross-application data warehouse, is also getting additional generative AI support. The new features are embedded in existing business workflows ...

Databricks is the latest investor in red-hot generative AI startup Mistral AI 

Citing a commitment to open-source software for generative artificial intelligence development, Databricks Inc. said today it has made an unspecified strategic investment and partnership with large language model developer Mistral AI SAS. Databricks said it will natively integrate Mistral’s open models with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, provide access in the Databricks Marketplace, include them in ...

Luminary Cloud launches with $115M funding for cloud CAE platform meant to dust desktop competitors

Luminary Cloud Inc. is launching out of stealth today with $115 million in funding and a computer-aided engineering platform delivered as a service that it says can run simulations up to 100 times faster than is possible on a desktop computer. The company calls its platform a cloud supercomputer and positions it as an alternative ...

MinIO expands its enterprise object storage offering to handle AI workloads

Saying generative artificial intelligence model training has changed the game in object storage, cloud-native storage startup MinIO Inc. today launched what it says is a major expansion of its product line that addresses the data creation and management needs of exabyte-scale infrastructure. MinIO sells a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 and permits rapid ...

Creatio’s no-code development platform gets generative AI copilot

No-code platform developer Creatio Inc. today added a generative artificial intelligence copilot feature that assists users in building applications. The feature is intended to enable users to tap into tried-and-tested out-of-the-box AI scenarios and create and customize new ones without the need for coding. The company is also introducing an accompanying workspace called Copilot Studio that lets ...

Startup Efficient Compute says its CPU design cuts power consumption over 99%

Efficient Compute Corp. Inc. launched today with a new central processing unit that it claims is up to 100 times more energy-efficient than leading general-purpose CPUs. The company also said it raised a $16 million seed funding round led by Eclipse Ventures LLC. Efficient Compute’s Fabric architecture technology is based on foundational research conducted at Carnegie ...

NetApp bulks up ransomware protection for AI workloads

NetApp Inc. is announcing new security features in its data storage and management systems that improve data protection and security in artificial intelligence use cases, focusing on ransomware. Citing its NetApp 2023 Data Complexity report, NetApp said 87% of senior executives ranked ransomware as a high or the top priority for their organization. The vendor ...

Nutanix CEO sees opportunity in VMware’s turmoil

Since hitting a low of just over $14 a share in mid-2022, Nutanix Inc.’s stock price trajectory has been mostly up and to the right. Shares closed at over $64 on Friday, nearly doubling over the past six months. The company’s fiscal second-quarter financial results topped revenue and earnings expectations on steady organic growth, and ...

Dell shares soar on strong earnings and growth forecasts

Dell Technologies Inc. gave its shareholders a welcome dose of good news today, reporting a surprise increase in fiscal 2024 fourth-quarter earnings and edging out analysts’ revenue expectations. The company reaffirmed earlier forecasts that it expects revenue growth to resume in the second half of its fiscal 2025, which begins in August. Investors celebrated by ...

Oracle’s autonomous database goes distributed and global

Oracle Corp. announced today that its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database is generally available. Aimed at customers that have strict data sovereignty requirements, usually because of regulations, the product has all the features of the Oracle Autonomous Database with additional controls over data distribution placement. Organizations can automatically distribute and store data anywhere in the world with ...