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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Exclusive: LucidLink launches MCP server to give AI agents shared access to distributed files
AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 DAYS AGO
LucidLink Corp., the maker of a cloud network-attached storage system based on object storage technology, today extended its distributed file system technology into agentic artificial intelligence with the public beta release of a Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents access shared files across clouds, on-premises systems and edge environments. The company said its ...
IBM says new sub-one-nanometer architecture paves the way for the next decade of chip design
INFRA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 4 DAYS AGO
IBM Corp. today unveiled what it says is the world’s first sub-one-nanometer chip technology, a research breakthrough that it said will fuel the next 10 years of semiconductor development and pave the way to atomic-level chip design. The new technology is based on a transistor architecture IBM calls nanostack, designed for the 0.7-nanometer, or seven-angstrom, ...
CData targets AI developers with governed data access tools
AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 5 DAYS AGO
CData Software Inc. today announced three products aimed at simplifying access to enterprise data for developers building artificial intelligence applications. They include a free Connect AI Developer Edition, an open-source Python software development kit and a new command-line interface tool. The launch addresses what the company said is the growing challenge developers face to easily access ...
HPE expands self-driving networking strategy as AI moves into production
AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 2 WEEKS AGO
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today unveiled a broad set of networking and artificial intelligence infrastructure enhancements at its Discover customer conference, promising to help enterprises deploy AI agents at scale by implementing self-driving networks and establishing AI factories as the foundation of what it calls the “agentic enterprise.” The combined announcements underscore HPE’s effort to ...
Exclusive: Mindbeam touts dramatic performance improvements in CPU-based AI inference
AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 2 WEEKS AGO
Two-year-old startup Mindbeam AI Inc. today released an open-source artificial intelligence inference framework designed to make large language models run more efficiently on standard consumer processors, a move the company says could reduce reliance on expensive graphics processing units for some AI workloads. Litespark-Inference is a software library that enables ternary large language models to run ...
Databricks declares the end of pipelines with a unified platform for operational and analytical data
BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 2 WEEKS AGO
Databricks Inc. is using its Data + AI Summit today in San Francisco to unveil a new data architecture designed to eliminate one of enterprise computing’s oldest bottlenecks: the separation between transactional databases and analytical systems. The company is also introducing a real-time analytics engine that it says removes the need for separate serving infrastructure ...
Mozilla Data Collective seeks to build AI’s data economy around trust
AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 2 WEEKS AGO
Generative artificial intelligence has a data problem. For years, the typical approach to building gen AI models has been to gather as much data as possible by scraping vast swaths of the internet, training at an enormous scale and dealing with the consequences later. The result has been increasingly powerful technology, but also growing concerns ...
HPE’s Unleash AI takes aim at the ‘AI pilot trap’
AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 WEEKS AGO
For all the excitement artificial intelligence has generated, success is still eluding many companies. A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP study found that just 20% of enterprises are achieving at least three-quarters of the revenue and efficiency gains AI promises. Gartner estimates that at least half of generative AI projects were abandoned last year, and other estimates ...
Exclusive: MotherDuck adds agentic data ingestion to its cloud analytics service
BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 WEEKS AGO
MotherDuck Corp., the maker of a cloud-native data warehouse based on the open-source DuckDB analytical engine, is betting that artificial intelligence agents will reshape how data pipelines are built and managed. Today, it unveiled a new capability called Flights that enables users to create and operate data ingestion workflows through natural-language interactions with AI assistants. The ...
Tiger Data launches PostgreSQL extension designed for AI agents
AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 WEEKS AGO
Tiger Data today introduced a managed PostgreSQL database service designed specifically for AI agents, saying conventional database architectures are poorly suited to a future in which software is increasingly built and operated by autonomous agents. The New York-based company, whose business name is Timescale Inc., said the new Ghost service addresses a growing need for ...