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 gives Ansible a generative AI front end and adds stream processing features

Ansible, the open-source automation tool that is the leading software used to automate software provisioning, configuration management and application deployment, is getting real-time, event-driven processing capabilities and an artificial intelligence-enabled front end in a series of announcements by Red Hat Inc. this week. Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant keys off the industry’s current ...

Will AI kill jobs? MIT professor says that depends on how it’s used

The number of nurse practitioners in the U.S. has grown from 40,000 in 1995 to 300,000 today and is expected to grow an additional 40% by 2030. Technology has contributed to this trend by enabling nurse practitioners to take on many tasks that were formerly the sole domain of doctors. The same can’t be said ...

Kyndryl beats earnings estimates but shares fall on weak guidance

Shares of Kyndryl Holdings Inc., the former services business unit of IBM Corp., fell more than 10% in early trading today as the company’s full-year revenue forecast issued Tuesday fell below analysts’ expectations. However, the company said it’s beating its goals on booking new business in the lucrative hyperscale market and is successfully shedding low-margin ...

Qlik closes Talend acquisition, looks to grow its data integration footprint

Qlik Tech International AB today said announced it has closed its acquisition of Talend Inc., which was announced in January. The merged companies will be led by Qlik Chief Executive Mike Capone (pictured), who has spearheaded a campaign to build a data integration, data quality and analytics presence in large part through 10 acquisitions over the ...

HPE Ezmeral refresh broadens open-source support and now works with objects and streams

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is simplifying its Ezmeral data analytics portfolio, brushing up the user interface, expanding the selection of open-source tools it offers, integrating object and streaming data sources, and improving interoperability across multiple clouds. The company says it’s attacking the problem of data silos by offering a complete data and analytics platform ...

Confluent buffs up its cloud with data quality controls and managed connections

Confluent Inc., a provider of real-time data streaming tools based on Apache Kafka, today is using its London-based Kafka Summit to announce new capabilities in its Confluent Cloud that address data quality issues. The company is also simplifying the process of building connectors to third-party data sources, making it easier for customers to share streams ...

MariaDB brings its Xpand distributed DBMS to PostgreSQL users

MariaDB plc today said it will make its Xpand distributed database management system available to PostgreSQL users in addition to its own customer base. “Our vision is to take databases to new heights of scale and resilience, in any cloud at a fraction of the cost of competitors,” said Chief Executive Michael Howard, in a statement. ...

ThoughtSpot broadly enhances its BI platform and adds intelligent mobile client

Business intelligence platform provider ThoughtSpot Inc. today is broadly enhancing its core application and launching a new mobile client. New capabilities include expanded search options, additional connections to data sources and platforms, new ways to collaborate on analytics and options to deliver information without requiring a user login. ThoughtSpot, which has raised more than $663 ...

Informatica adds GPT support and cloud migration enticements for on-premises customers

Informatica Corp. is doubling down on its Intelligent Data Management Cloud with a series of announcements today at its Informatica World conference in Las Vegas. They include expanded artificial intelligence capabilities, vertical market features and a broader scope of master data management products. The announcements come as the company is completing what it says is ...

Tableau refreshes its visualization platform with GPT added

The Tableau Software subsidiary of Salesforce Inc. today added generative pre-trained transformer technology of the type used in the popular ChatGPT question-answering application to its core data visualization platform. The company cited its own research that found that 80% of senior information technology leaders believe generative artificial intelligence will help their organizations make better use of ...