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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Microsoft again blows away earnings estimates as AI’s contribution grows

Having surpassed Apple Inc. and achieved a $3 trillion market capitalization both in the last week, Microsoft Corp. again showed why it’s the company to beat in the commercial artificial intelligence market with its fifth straight quarter of record revenues and largest profit growth in more than two years. Growth of 30% in the Azure ...

Arrcus says it can cut cloud egress fees by up to 40%

Hyperscale networking software company Arrcus Inc. today announced additions to its FlexMCN multi-cloud networking software that are targeted at reducing the cost of moving data out of cloud infrastructure. The company said its Egress Cost Control feature can cut those charges, called egress fees, by up to 40%. Egress fees have long been a point of ...

AWS users waste billions by forgoing discount plans, report says

More than half of organizations that use the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud don’t take advantage of savings plans, collectively wasting up to $20 billion annually in cloud spending, according to a new study by ProsperOps Inc. The company, which sells software and services that automate the cloud financial accountability discipline called FinOps, said fewer than ...

Software and consulting anchor strong IBM financial results

A resurgent IBM Corp. reported revenue and earnings in the fourth quarter that beat analyst projections, propelled by accelerating demand for artificial intelligence in general and generative AI in particular. The company also reaffirmed earlier guidance of 2024 growth in the mid-single digits with particular strength in software and consulting. “We are the only tech ...

SAP shares soar as company restructures and doubles down on AI

SAP SE’s restructuring plan that will eliminate or reassign about 8,000 jobs is intended to accelerate the company’s development of artificial intelligence features in its products and to “transform its operational setup to capture organizational synergies, AI-driven efficiencies and to prepare the company for highly scalable future revenue growth,” SAP said in a statement. The announcement ...

Wasabi acquires AI-powered video indexing technology from GrayMeta

Cloud storage vendor Wasabi Technologies LLC is acquiring the Curio AI content indexing engine from GrayMeta Inc. and will incorporate it into a new artificial intelligence-powered storage offering for the media and entertainment industry. Wasabi sells storage to business customers on a flat rate pricing plan at a significant discount to the pricing of the ...

Boomi CEO: ‘We are in absolute predator mode’

A little more than a year after joining Boomi Inc., Steve Lucas isn’t declaring victory, but he believes the artificial intelligence-infused future of the data integration and automation provider is looking pretty bright. Boomi will reach the $500 million recurring revenue mark this year and is growing more than 20% annually, said Lucas (pictured). Equally ...

Databricks targets telcos with its newest industry analytics platform

Databricks Inc. today launched another in its series of vertically oriented analytics and artificial intelligence platforms, this one targeting telecommunications carriers and network service providers. The Data Intelligence Platform for Communications combines the company’s data lakehouse with large language model features Databricks picked up with its acquisition of MosaicML Inc. last summer. MosaicML provides an ...

Gartner sees healthy 6.8% growth in 2024 IT spending

The computer industry may be awash in layoffs, but that doesn’t appear to be due to reluctance by information technology buyers to open their wallets. Gartner Inc. today is forecasting that worldwide IT spending this year will grow 6.8% from 2023 levels, to $5 trillion, more than double the 3.3% growth of the year just ...

Pinecone’s vector database goes serverless

Well-funded vector database startup Pinecone Systems Inc. today announced a serverless version of its product aimed at artificial intelligence applications. The company said the serverless architecture, which is a cloud computing execution model where the cloud provider dynamically manages the allocation and provisioning of servers, can reduce costs by up to 98%. It can also eliminate the ...