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: MotherDuck adds agentic data ingestion to its cloud analytics service

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 2 MONTHS 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 - 2 MONTHS 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 ...

Pega expands AI platform with agent orchestration, development tools and new pricing model

AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 2 MONTHS AGO

Workflow automation vendor Pegasystems Inc. today unveiled a broad set of artificial intelligence enhancements aimed at helping enterprises deploy AI agents in mission-critical business processes while maintaining governance, reliability and cost control. Announced at the company’s PegaWorld conference, the updates span agent orchestration, application development, workforce training and a new pricing model intended to address ...

AWS adds database features and license options aimed at simplifying agent deployment

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 MONTHS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. today enhanced its database services to simplify the process of building and operating agentic artificial intelligence applications while also lowering the barriers to cloud migration for users of Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server. The announcements add built-in durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey and a new bring-your-own-media option for Amazon RDS for ...

Cisco’s new cloud platform aimed at securing AI infrastructure

INFRA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 MONTHS AGO

Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced a sweeping set of products and services designed to help enterprises manage, secure and automate increasingly complex information technology environments as artificial intelligence agents become embedded in corporate infrastructure. The announcements, made at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, are “the most consequential that Cisco has made in many years,” said ...

AI agents, open data and governance take center stage at Snowflake Summit

AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 MONTHS AGO

Snowflake Inc. is using its Summit 2026 conference today in San Francisco to present a vision of what it calls the “agentic enterprise,” unveiling a broad set of products and enhancements that it says help organizations build, govern and operate artificial intelligence systems on top of trusted enterprise data. The announcements span data interoperability, AI ...

Cisco bets on AI agents to redefine workplace collaboration

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 MONTHS AGO

Cisco Systems Inc. today unveiled a set of collaboration and customer experience products that transform its Webex videoconferencing platform into what executives describe as an intelligent operating system for work. The updates span collaboration hardware, AI agents, contact center software and security enhancements that Cisco said will support a future in which AI agents work ...

Starburst bets on semantic context to solve enterprise AI trust problem

AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 MONTHS AGO

Starburst Data Inc. today is expanding its push into enterprise artificial intelligence with the introduction of a platform aimed at allowing organizations to run AI workloads directly on distributed data without moving it into centralized repositories. Announced at the company’s AI+Datanova event in Miami, the Enterprise Intelligence Platform combines Starburst’s federated query technology with a ...

IBM expands digital sovereignty push with new cloud compliance and visibility platform

AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 MONTHS AGO

IBM Corp. today introduced a new cloud sovereignty tool aimed at helping enterprises demonstrate compliance, operational control and governance as artificial intelligence deployments expand across hybrid and multicloud environments. IBM Cloud Sovereignty Risk Profile is designed to give organizations greater visibility into where workloads run, how data is protected and whether operational controls meet regulatory ...

Exclusive: Unravel Data launches autonomous optimization engine for Databricks, Snowflake and BigQuery

INFRA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 MONTHS AGO

Unravel Data Systems Inc. is expanding beyond observability and FinOps software with a new autonomous optimization engine designed to automatically tune and remediate enterprise data platforms running on Databricks Inc., Snowflake Inc. and Google LLC BigQuery platforms. The Palo Alto-based company today unveiled Arvix AI, an agentic artificial intelligence system embedded within the Unravel platform ...