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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AI agents, open data and governance take center stage at Snowflake Summit

Snowflake Inc. is using its Summit 2026 conference today in San Francisco to present a vision of what it calls the “agentic enterprise,” unveiling a broad set of products and enhancements that it says help organizations build, govern and operate artificial intelligence systems on top of trusted enterprise data. The announcements span data interoperability, AI ...

Cisco bets on AI agents to redefine workplace collaboration

Cisco Systems Inc. today unveiled a set of collaboration and customer experience products that transform its Webex videoconferencing platform into what executives describe as an intelligent operating system for work. The updates span collaboration hardware, AI agents, contact center software and security enhancements that Cisco said will support a future in which AI agents work ...

Starburst bets on semantic context to solve enterprise AI trust problem

Starburst Data Inc. today is expanding its push into enterprise artificial intelligence with the introduction of a platform aimed at allowing organizations to run AI workloads directly on distributed data without moving it into centralized repositories. Announced at the company’s AI+Datanova event in Miami, the Enterprise Intelligence Platform combines Starburst’s federated query technology with a ...

IBM expands digital sovereignty push with new cloud compliance and visibility platform

IBM Corp. today introduced a new cloud sovereignty tool aimed at helping enterprises demonstrate compliance, operational control and governance as artificial intelligence deployments expand across hybrid and multicloud environments. IBM Cloud Sovereignty Risk Profile is designed to give organizations greater visibility into where workloads run, how data is protected and whether operational controls meet regulatory ...

Exclusive: Unravel Data launches autonomous optimization engine for Databricks, Snowflake and BigQuery

Unravel Data Systems Inc. is expanding beyond observability and FinOps software with a new autonomous optimization engine designed to automatically tune and remediate enterprise data platforms running on Databricks Inc., Snowflake Inc. and Google LLC BigQuery platforms. The Palo Alto-based company today unveiled Arvix AI, an agentic artificial intelligence system embedded within the Unravel platform ...

Informatica expands agentic AI strategy with headless data services and unified agent governance

In its first major announcement since being acquired by Salesforce Inc., data management vendor Informatica today unveiled a “headless” version of its flagship Intelligent Data Management Cloud, positioning it as a resource for enterprises building artificial intelligence agents that need governed, context-rich data without relying on traditional application interfaces. “Headless” is a software architecture in ...

Exclusive: Juicebox autonomous recruiting agents help source candidates proactively

Juicebox App Inc. today introduced a suite of autonomous recruiting agents that help hiring teams proactively identify and engage candidates across multiple open roles simultaneously, recommending prospects, drafting outreach messages and sourcing candidates over extended periods with limited human intervention. The new offering, called Juicebox Agents, uses artificial intelligence agents to continuously search for candidates ...

Dell overhauls data center portfolio with AI-focused storage, servers and cyber resilience tools

Dell Technologies Inc. today unveiled a broad set of storage, compute, cyber resilience and automation upgrades designed to help enterprises modernize data centers for artificial intelligence workloads while continuing to support traditional applications. The announcements, made at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, include a major refresh of the company’s PowerStore storage line, new PowerEdge ...

Dell targets enterprise AI execution gap with local agentic AI systems and integrated AI infrastructure

Dell Technologies Inc. today is kicking off its Dell Technologies World conference by expanding its artificial intelligence portfolio with enhancements aimed at helping enterprises move AI projects from experimentation into large-scale production, with a particular focus on agentic AI, data orchestration, rack-scale infrastructure and on-premises deployment. The announcements build on the company’s Dell AI Factory ...

Dataiku launches governed AI workflow builder inside Snowflake

Dataiku Inc. today announced a deeper integration with Snowflake Inc. aimed at simplifying the creation of enterprise AI agents while preserving governance and operational controls, a growing concern as organizations move experimental generative AI projects into production. The new offering, called Cobuild on Snowflake, combines Snowflake Cortex AI services with Dataiku’s orchestration platform to enable ...