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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Oracle broadly enhances NetSuite and bridges to Autonomous Data Warehouse

Oracle Corp. today is announcing a broad set of enhancements to its NetSuite software for small and midsized businesses, including customer self-service capabilities, machine learning features that identify transactions and recommend ecommerce site configurations, and new integration with Oracle’s flagship Autonomous Data Warehouse.  The company, which was one of the first software-as-a-service providers, said its ...

Cnvrg.io debuts unified resource utilization dashboard for machine learning developers

Accessible Labs Ltd., which does business as cnvrg.io, today released a dashboard that can be used by developers of machine learning models to optimize their use of server resources. The Jerusalem-based startup said its ML Infrastructure Dashboard can initially be used to give development managers a look at utilization of central processing units, graphics processing ...

VMware’s Project Monterey: It’s about a lot more than hardware efficiency

VMware Inc.’s Project Monterey, introduced this week at the company’s virtual VMworld event, will ultimately do a lot more than just make data center hardware more efficient. It’s actually a completely new approach to deploying and securing data center resources. “You can put a whole data center on a chip,” Tom Gillis (pictured), general manager of ...

At VMworld, distributed data center project leads cavalcade of new VMware products

Seeking to underscore its aim to be the nonpartisan mediator of the multicloud, VMware Inc. today opened its virtual VMworld 2020 conference with a cavalcade of announcements and partnerships that blur the line between on-premises and cloud computing. Perhaps the most interesting announcement isn’t a product at all, but a new initiative called Project Monterey ...

Oracle adds digital assistants and boosts AI features in its enterprise cloud suite

Oracle today announced a broad set of updates to its Fusion Cloud enterprise software suite, highlighted by the addition of digital assistants and expanded machine learning capability. In a nod to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Oracle said a principal focus of the enhancements is on enabling “touchless” commerce by automating processes that ...

AWS adds Wavelength Zones in bid to cash in on 5G fever

Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it’s adding three new zones to its Wavelength service for edge computing and 5G networks. With the addition of Atlanta, New York City, and Washington, D.C. AWS now has five Wavelength Zones on Verizon Communications Inc.’s 5G network in the U.S. Zones were previously announced in Boston and the San ...

Oracle bulks up high-performance computing services on its cloud

Pressing what it says is an advantage in the market for high-performance computing cloud services, Oracle Corp. today is rolling out a series of new offerings aimed at customers demanding high horsepower for applications ranging from three-dimensional visualizations to video rendering. The company is also introducing a service that provides cloud instances of the low-power ...

Ahana delivers Presto distributed query engine as a service on the AWS cloud

Ahana Cloud Inc., the commercial curator of the Presto distributed query engine, today announced a cloud-native offering of Presto as a service on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. The company also said it raised an additional $2.3 million in seed financing, coming on top of the $2.5 million it raised in June. Presto is ...

Hysolate delivers centrally managed secure endpoint VMs as a service

Hysolate Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based provider of isolated virtual workspaces, today announced a version of its product delivered as a service. The Isolated Workspace-as-a-Service is intended for companies that need to control employee workstation security closely in remote work environments by providing operating system-isolated endpoints that can be managed centrally from the cloud. Hysolate addresses ...

The newest e-learning platform leaves topics and pricing up to instructors

U Inc., a spinoff from gig economy software development platform Koder Inc., today launched an online learning platform that enables anyone to teach classes and earn money from fees they set. U provides a digital platform using Zoom Inc. video and live chat that prospective instructors can employ to do live classes as well as set ...