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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HPE broadly expands AI-native networking, hybrid cloud and storage offerings

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is using its Discover Barcelona 2025 event today to announce a broad expansion of its networking, hybrid cloud and data infrastructure portfolio, highlighting early integration milestones following its recent acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc. The company detailed new switches and routers for artificial intelligence workloads, expanded AI operations capabilities and updates ...

AWS expands Nova foundation models, adds multimodal support

In conjunction with its announcement of Nova Forge, a platform for building customized variants of its Nova foundation models, Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced four new artificial intelligence models under the Nova banner that expand AWS’s generative AI offerings in multimodal reasoning, speech processing and user interface automation. The additions to the Nova family, ...

The end of apps? Imagining software’s agentic future

It’s 8:45 on a Tuesday morning in 2029, and you’re running late for your first call. You haven’t logged into your customer relationship management system in months. You don’t need to. Your digital sales agent has already triaged the overnight leads, selected the ones that merit your attention, and scheduled two that look particularly promising. ...

Amplitude lays out AI-native future as brands adapt to generative search

Amplitude Inc. is preparing a major shift in its product strategy that will put artificial intelligence at the center of how companies understand customer intent and research behavior. n a recent interview with SiliconANGLE, Chief Executive Spenser Skates (pictured) said the market is entering a phase in which analytics tools must retool to be “AI-native,” ...

Microsoft rolls out major updates for building and managing enterprise AI agents

Microsoft Corp. is using its massive Ignite conference in San Francisco today to unveil a wide range of updates to its Foundry artificial intelligence development platform aimed at simplifying how developers build, deploy and manage AI agents. The previews and general releases are part of the company’s broader effort to streamline agent development and enable ...

Microsoft Power Platform get new agentic and governance capabilities

Microsoft Corp. is updating its Power Platform today at its Ignite conference in San Francisco with new artificial intelligence features, governance tools and data integrations aimed at speeding the deployment and management of applications more efficiently. The updates span Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Dataverse, with many being released in preview over ...

Microsoft updates database portfolio and adds open-source offerings

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025. The software and cloud giant is also launching a private preview of Azure HorizonDB, a cloud database based on PostgreSQL, and the general availability of Microsoft Fabric, which combines relational and NoSQL ...

Legal startup tackles the hidden risk of shifting contract terms

Terms of service, the legal documents accompanying intellectual property licenses that less than 10% of us ever read, are important to many businesses. That was evident early this year, when the digital design platform maker Canva Pty. Ltd. updated its license terms to prohibit users from commercializing certain materials containing third-party content. “That could impact ...
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From credit ratings to AI in the cloud: Experian’s quiet reinvention

It began as a note stuck to the wall during a 2018 brainstorming session at Experian plc’s consumer business unit. The two-word idea — “score boost” — was one of a hundred that came up that day, but it was the one that helped save the company’s $2 billion consumer services business. Experian’s consumer division ...

Red Hat Linux gets offline management, quantum threat mitigation and new AI features

Red Hat today announced multiple product updates across its Linux, OpenShift and artificial intelligence portfolios, focusing on hybrid cloud performance, post-quantum security and developer productivity. They include the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and 9.7 and Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8, all of which integrate AI-driven management tools designed to simplify operations ...