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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Red Hat Expands AI offerings with inference server and validated models

Red Hat Inc. today announced a series of updates aimed at making generative artificial intelligence more accessible and manageable in enterprises. They include the debut of the Red Hat AI Inference Server, a collection of third-party validated AI models and enhancements across Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI. The updates are collectively ...

Dell builds out its AI offerings with an emphasis on on-premises deployment

Kicking off its Dell Technologies World conference this week, Dell is expanding its AI Factory artificial intelligence product portfolio with infrastructure, software and services updates. Its stated goal is helping enterprises move from experimentation to scaled deployment of AI without using commercial cloud services. Dell said on-premises infrastructure is more efficient for AI inference at scale, ...

Microsoft launches tools to streamline AI agent development

Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a suite of new tools and services at its Build conference this week that are designed to accelerate the development and deployment of the autonomous assistants called artificial intelligence agents across its platforms. The updates aim to simplify enterprise adoption of agent-based systems, strengthen agent capabilities in Microsoft 365 and ...

Microsoft expands Fabric and Azure data portfolio to simplify AI development

Microsoft Corp. today is announcing at its annual Build conference a broad range of enhancements across its data platforms aimed at simplifying artificial intelligence application development. The updates span Microsoft Fabric, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Power BI, PostgreSQL and integrations with Databricks Inc.’s and SAP SE’s services on the Azure cloud. The aim is ...

Starburst targets AI bottlenecks with smarter data access and governance

Starburst Data Inc., provider of a unified data access platform based on the open-source Trino distributed query engine, today is unveiling a suite of enhancements intended to make it easier for enterprises to develop and apply artificial intelligence models. The company is making it easier by simplifying access to data scattered across clouds, on-premises systems ...

AWS’ AI-powered workload modernization service is now generally available

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Transform, a new service that accelerates the migration and modernization of enterprise workloads using agentic artificial intelligence. The service, which was initially previewed at AWS re:Invent 2024 as Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities, targets legacy VMware, mainframe and .NET workloads. AWS said it can reduce ...

HPE expands private cloud portfolio and touts simplified virtualization

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced an expansion of its private cloud portfolio, introducing new software and services aimed at reducing costs and simplifying hybrid information technology operations. HPE said its new Private Cloud Business Edition with Morpheus Software is designed to help enterprises modernize their IT infrastructure to achieve greater flexibility, efficiency and manageability. The ...

Anaconda releases data science platform optimized for open-source development

Anaconda Inc., the developer of an open-source data science platform, today announced a unified artificial intelligence development platform purpose-built for use with open-source software. The Anaconda AI Platform provides security and governance features that are unique to open-source development and integrated with the company’s pre-vetted packages and productivity aids that the company says improve operational ...

10Web’s generative AI website builder is now accessible via an API

10Web Inc., the developer of a technology that builds websites on the open-source WordPress platform from generative artificial intelligence prompts, today is adding an application programming interface option that developers can use to integrate website generation into existing applications and workflows. The API makes it possible, for example, for marketers to generate a special-purpose website ...

SAS ups AI development and governance capabilities

SAS Institute Inc. is using its SAS Innovate 2025 event in Orlando today to introduce a series of enhancements to its Viya cloud-based analytics and artificial intelligence development platform. They’re aimed at supporting AI agents, improving AI governance and delivering ready-made models for industry-specific tasks. The announcements reflect the company’s continued push to offer enterprise-grade AI ...