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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Copilots will be everywhere in Microsoft Ignite announcement spree

Microsoft Corp. is going all in on agents as it expands its line of Copilots to take on unique roles handling mundane tasks as well as complex, multi-step business processes. Agentic artificial intelligence refers to AI systems that are designed to act autonomously, make decisions and take actions to achieve specific goals, using reasoning, planning, ...

Oracle expands integration with Microsoft Azure infrastructure

Oracle Corp. is using Microsoft Corp.’s Ignite conference today to announce that it has expanded the number of its Exadata database-optimized servers and Real Application Clusters colocated in Microsoft Azure data centers to nine regions,. Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available in nine regions worldwide with an additional 24 more regions planned by the end ...

Microsoft Fabric gets enhanced AI development and data integration features

Microsoft Fabric is getting new tools and capabilities to streamline artificial intelligence application development, enhance data integration and improve security in a series of announcements at Microsoft Corp.’s Ignite conference today. Fabric is an integrated analytics platform that unifies data integration, engineering, warehousing, science and business intelligence on top of a unified data lake. The updates ...

Informatica expands support for AI and Microsoft Fabric on Azure

Informatica Inc. today announced three new capabilities for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud aimed at smoothing the process of building, deploying and activating artificial intelligence and analytical applications using trusted data. The Gen AI Blueprint for Azure OpenAI provides a set of reference architectures and templates based on Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud platform and Azure Open AI ...

Dell expands AI Factory with new high-powered servers and dense racks

Dell Technologies Inc. is expanding its AI Factory in announcements being made today at the SC24 high-performance computing conference in Atlanta. The AI Factory is intended to help organizations adopt and scale up artificial intelligence across their operations by deploying an integrated set of infrastructure, software and services including Nvidia Corp. AI infrastructure and software. ...

Five9 ups the intelligence level of its virtual agents

Contact-center-as-a-service provider Five9 Inc. today said it has expanded the Genius AI suite it announced in August with intelligent virtual agents that incorporate generative artificial intelligence and natural language processing to simulate the conversational abilities of a human. Businesses can fine-tune Five9 AI Agents to balance flexibility and control by adjusting the amount of generative ...

MinIO debuts object storage built for AI workloads

MinIO Inc., developer of a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 service, today announced a version of its cloud storage service designed to support all types of artificial intelligence training data in one infrastructure. Object storage is a highly scalable method for storing various structured and unstructured data types distributed ...

Snowflake adds bevy of features for AI development and managed Polaris catalog

Snowflake Inc. today announced at its annual Build 2024 virtual developer conference numerous enhancements to its cloud data platform, many focused on artificial intelligence. Among them is a natural-language front-end to internal data with agentic capabilities, tools that help developers more quickly build conversational front-ends for managing and accessing structured and unstructured data, enhancements that ...

Nutanix offers cloud-native AI deployment platform with predictable pricing

Nutanix Inc. today is breaking out the inferencing components of its GPT-in-a-Box toolkit in the form of a cloud-native artificial intelligence infrastructure platform that runs on any Kubernetes installation. That can be at the edge, in private data centers and on public cloud services like Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Elastic Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure ...

Akamai rolls out packaged platform for distributed Kubernetes applications

Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced Akamai Application Platform, described as a packaged platform for deploying, managing and scaling highly distributed applications. Akamai Application Platform is built on top of Otomi, a productivity suite for Kubernetes with preconfigured applications and self-service tasks that Akamai acquired from Red Kubes Holding B.V. earlier this year. Its templates address ...