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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StarTree to support Apache Iceberg in a bid to expand lakehouse use cases

StarTree Inc., which sells a real-time analytics platform and cloud service based on the Apache Pinot open-source online analytical processing database, today becomes the latest data analytics provider to announce full support for Apache Iceberg. The StarTree Cloud managed service will employ Iceberg as the analytic and serving layer on top of its data lakehouse, ...

Aerospike unveils native Rust client preview, targeting real-time ‘safe’ applications

Aerospike Inc., which sells a commercial version of an open-source, scalable, real-time NoSQL database management system, has released a preview version of a fully supported Rust client for developers building high-throughput, low-latency applications with the popular programming language. The client, now available on GitHub, marks what Aerospike said is a “significant shift” from a community-led ...

Creatio embeds AI agents across CRM and workflow automation platform

Creatio Inc. today launched a new version of its no-code platform for workflow automation and customer relationship management with new agents and natural language capabilities. Release 8.3 is called “Twin, ” a moniker the company says reflects the increasingly collaborative relationship between human users and artificial intelligence agents. Creatio said the release embeds AI deeper into ...

HPE goes full stack with AI factories, agentic ops and cloud software suite

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s theme for this week’s Discover event in Las Vegas could be that artificial intelligence isn’t an application but a factory. And it wants enterprises to believe it has all the right parts to build it. In a sprawling slate of announcements that spans everything from private clouds to sovereign-scale infrastructure and ...

Pure Storage launches unified data management cloud and new flash arrays

Pure Storage Inc. today introduced the Enterprise Data Cloud, calling it a sweeping architectural upgrade to how organizations store, manage, and use data across hybrid environments. The company says EDC enables organizations to manage block, file and object workloads in on-premises, cloud and hybrid deployments. The maker of all-flash storage subsystems said traditional, siloed approaches ...

Broadcom says VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 recognizes the ascendancy of private cloud

Broadcom Inc. today announced the general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, the latest iteration of its private cloud platform. Dubbed “the future” of the company’s private cloud strategy at its announcement last August, the release marks a significant architectural shift aimed at delivering a more integrated, secure and developer-friendly private cloud experience. VCF 9.0 ...

Databricks launches free tool to streamline enterprise data warehouse migrations

Continuing a deluge of announcements clustered around making it easier for enterprises to build artificial intelligence-based agents and applications, Databricks Inc. today is wrapping up its Data+AI Summit with Lakebridge, a migration tool intended to simplify and accelerate the notoriously difficult process of migrating legacy data warehouses. Databricks said the free offering automates up to ...

New Databricks tools aim to cut costs and complexity in AI agent deployment

Databricks Inc. today unveiled a new suite of tools aimed at simplifying the development of artificial intelligence agents for enterprise use. The centerpiece of the announcement is Mosaic Agent Bricks, a unified workspace that automates agent building and optimization using customers’ enterprise data and synthetic equivalents. Agent Bricks enters public beta at the company’s annual Data ...

Cisco product blitz aimed at making networks more AI-friendly

Asserting that bandwidth limitations are throttling artificial intelligence’s potential, Cisco Systems Inc. is using its Cisco Live event today to introduce new products and updates designed to help enterprises and service providers adapt their infrastructure to the growing demands of AI-driven workloads. The updates span data center networking, AI workload optimization, security and operational management. ...

Exclusive: CData to embed its connectivity technology across Palantir analytics and AI platforms

CData Software Inc. today announced an expanded partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc. that integrates CData’s connectivity technology deeply into Palantir’s analytics platforms. The agreement expands a longstanding collaboration between the two companies and makes CData’s suite of more than 300 connectors to back-end data sources available directly to Palantir users. The deal lets Palantir customers ...