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

Databricks adds federation, generative AI front end and development tools to its lakehouse

AI By PAUL GILLIN3 YEARS AGO

Databricks Inc. is joining the generative AI parade today with a query engine that lets users ask questions and get contextually relevant answers in natural language. LakehouseIQ is integrated with the company’s Unity Catalog governance platform to ensure adherence to internal security …

Databricks’ Delta Lake 3.0 bridges compatibility gaps with Apache Iceberg and Hudi

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN3 YEARS AGO

Databricks Inc. today released the latest version of Delta Lake, the storage framework that it donated to open source a year ago. Version 3.0 adds support for the Apache Iceberg and Apache Hudi data lake platforms using a universal format that allows …

Prosimo gives away software for orchestrating multicloud networking application delivery

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN3 YEARS AGO

Prosimo Inc., the developer of networking technology for orchestrating application delivery across multiple clouds, is giving away part of its multicloud networking software suite in a bid to attract more customers to its full platform. MCN Foundation is a kind of starter …

BMC smooths path from mainframe to cloud

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN3 YEARS AGO

BMC Software Inc. today introduced a new product portfolio to help customers migrate mainframe data to a hybrid cloud environment. The BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence Cloud combines hybrid cloud technologies with on-premises mainframe computing to enable enterprises to run large-scale transaction processing …

Informatica deepens ties to Snowflake ecosystem

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN3 YEARS AGO

Informatica Corp. is launching four new product capabilities for Snowflake Inc.’s Data Cloud platform that are aimed at simplifying and speeding up the data integration replication process, all available within the native Snowflake ecosystem. Informatica Superpipe for Snowflake is said to deliver up to …

Snowflake stresses app development in flurry of rollouts

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN3 YEARS AGO

The overarching message of a wave of announcements by Snowflake Inc. at its annual user conference this week will be about enabling applications to be built on its big-data cloud platform. Among the most significant is the availability in public preview of …

Redpanda lands $100M to expand its streaming data pipelines

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN3 YEARS AGO

Redpanda Data Inc., the developer of a data platform that unifies historical and real-time data, today said it has raised $100 million in an over-subscribed Series C round that brings its total funding to $163 million. The size of the bankroll is …

Oracle more than triples query speed in new generation of Exadata processors

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN3 YEARS AGO

Oracle today announced the latest generation of its Exadata X10M computing platform, with up to three times higher transaction throughput and 3.6 times faster analytic query performance than the previous X9M version at the same starting price. The machine is based on Advance …

Capital One Software boosts Snowflake cost visibility and adds intelligent query adviser

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN3 YEARS AGO

Capital One Software, the software arm of Capital One Financial Corp., today is announcing new features in Slingshot, which is a set of templates, custom workflows and controls that help users of the Snowflake Inc. Data Cloud better manage their cloud compute …

Starburst broadens support for other data sources in update of managed Trino service

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN3 YEARS AGO

Starburst Data Inc., which sells a distributed query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today debuted a set of new features in its Starburst Galaxy managed cloud database that are intended to make it easier for organizations to manage data from …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Databricks adds federation, generative AI front end and development tools to its lakehouse

Informatica deepens ties to Snowflake ecosystem

Redpanda lands $100M to expand its streaming data pipelines

Oracle more than triples query speed in new generation of Exadata processors

Starburst broadens support for other data sources in update of managed Trino service

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