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.

Latest from Paul Gillin

Study finds fears of post-Broadcom VMware customer flight may be overblown

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN2 YEARS AGO

Forecasts of mass abandonment of VMware Inc. customer defections to other virtualization technology providers in the wake of Broadcom Inc.’s $61 billion acquisition of the virtualization giant may be overblown, according to a study released today by CloudBolt Software Inc. in partnership …

How some enterprises have licked the AI data problem

AI By PAUL GILLIN2 YEARS AGO

Thomson Reuters Corp. is betting big on generative artificial intelligence, and it has the data foundation in place to do so. The global provider of professional information for the legal, accounting, government and media industries announced last November that it plans to …

Databricks acquires Tabular in a big move to close the compatibility gap with Apache Iceberg

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN2 YEARS AGO

Databricks Inc. today agreed to acquire Tabular Technologies Inc., developer of a universal storage platform based on the Apache Iceberg standard. The move signals stepped-up efforts by Databricks to bridge the compatibility gap between its Delta Lake storage format and Iceberg. Terms weren’t announced, …

Neo4j integrates dozens of graph analytics functions with data in Snowflake

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN2 YEARS AGO

Graph database vendor Neo4j Inc. is teaming up with Snowflake Inc. to make a library of Neo4j’s graph analytics functions available in the Snowflake cloud. The deal announced today allows users to access more than 65 graph algorithms using SQL without moving …

Snowflake broadly enhances AI features, adds no-code platform and boosts AI development tools

AI By PAUL GILLIN2 YEARS AGO

Snowflake Inc. is using its annual Snowflake Summit to introduce enhancements to Cortex AI, a managed service that makes it easier for organizations to discover, analyze and build artificial intelligence applications in the Snowflake Data Cloud. New features include the ability to …

Snowflake catalog supports cross-engine access to Iceberg data

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN2 YEARS AGO

Snowflake Inc. is expanding its support for the Apache Iceberg open-source table format with today’s announcement of Polaris Catalog, described as a vendor-neutral, open catalog implementation for Iceberg and other data architectures. Polaris is intended to provide centralized, cross-engine access to data. …

Nutanix CEO sees sales slowdown as temporary

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN2 YEARS AGO

With its stock down more than 20% this morning following a disappointing outlook issued during yesterday’s earnings call, Nutanix Inc. ad its Chief Executive Rajiv Ramaswami maintained the sales slowdown the company is seeing is temporary and several large contracts currently in …

Enterprise DB begins rolling AI features into PostgreSQL

AI By PAUL GILLIN2 YEARS AGO

EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source PostgreSQL database management system, is launching itself into the artificial intelligence fray with today’s introduction of EDB Postgres AI. It’s a platform that combines transactional, analytical and AI workloads — a …

At Build, Microsoft Fabric, PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB get AI enhancements

AI By PAUL GILLIN2 YEARS AGO

Among the roughly 60 announcements Microsoft Corp. is making at its Build conference today are new artificial intelligence capabilities across its cloud-based database management products. Fabric, the company’s unified data platform introduced last year, is a major beneficiary. A Workload Development Kit currently …

Microsoft simplifies Azure provisioning and debuts first VMs based on its custom silicon

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN2 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp.’s Build conference in Seattle this week will launch several enhancements to the company’s Azure public cloud. Azure Compute Fleet is a new service in preview intended to simplify the provisioning of Azure compute capacity across different virtual machine types, availability zones and pricing models. Microsoft said it …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Study finds fears of post-Broadcom VMware customer flight may be overblown

How some enterprises have licked the AI data problem

Databricks acquires Tabular in a big move to close the compatibility gap with Apache Iceberg

Neo4j integrates dozens of graph analytics functions with data in Snowflake

Snowflake broadly enhances AI features, adds no-code platform and boosts AI development tools

Snowflake catalog supports cross-engine access to Iceberg data

Nutanix CEO sees sales slowdown as temporary

Enterprise DB begins rolling AI features into PostgreSQL

Microsoft simplifies Azure provisioning and debuts first VMs based on its custom silicon

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