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

Startup debuts $299 outdoor fire sensor with 10-acre coverage range

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 YEARS AGO

With the California fire season looming in early summer, Startup Torch Systems today is launching early-stage outdoor fire and wildfire detection sensors that continuously monitor an area for signs of fire along with a free mobile app that immediately notifies users about fires on their property and in surrounding areas. The $299 device (pictured) provides ...

CelerData expands lakehouse support in StarRocks-based analytics platform

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 YEARS AGO

CelerData Inc. maker of a real-time analytics platform based on the StarRocks open-source massively parallel database, today announced version 3 of its enterprise product with enhanced support for the hybrid data warehouse/data lake repositories known as data lakehouses. CelerData, which renamed itself from StarRocks Inc. last year,  is the principal developer of StarRocks, a fork ...

ThoughtSpot’s business intelligence platform gets GPT-3 support

AI - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 YEARS AGO

ThoughtSpot Inc. is climbing aboard the large language model bandwagon with today’s announcement that it is integrating the popular GPT-3 LLM into its business intelligence platform. GPT-3 is the model that underlies the enormously popular ChatGPT chatbot from OpenAI LLC. ThoughtSpot’s platform allows users to query business data from multiple sources using search engine-like terms and ...

Qualtrics uses machine learning into improve agent, customer experiences

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 YEARS AGO

Qualtrics International Inc. is headlining its X4 Experience Management Summit conference in Salt Lake City today with a lineup of new capabilities that leverage machine learning to get a better understanding of customer experiences. The aim is to give call center agents faster and more complete access to information needed to resolve customer issues as ...

Databricks exposes serverless machine learning inferencing engine via an API

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 YEARS AGO

Data analytics developer Databricks Inc. today announced the general availability of Databricks Model Serving, a serverless real-time inferencing service that deploys real-time machine learning models natively within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform and is exposed via a Representational State Transfer or REST application programming interface. The company said the service enables developers to build applications such ...

Startup pgEdge aims to land distributed Postgres at network’s edge

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 YEARS AGO

A startup headed by the co-founders of commercial PostgreSQL maker Enterprise DB Corp. is coming out of stealth mode today with $9 million in seed funding and a distributed version of PostgreSQL optimized for edge computing instances. Alexandria, Va.-based pgEdge Inc.’s Distributed PostgreSQL is based on a multi-active extension to PostgreSQL that enables all nodes on ...

VMware reports strong results amid growing regulatory pressure on Broadcom acquisition

CLOUD - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 YEARS AGO

With its planned $61.2 billion sale to Broadcom Inc. under the cloud of investigations in the U.S. and Europe and speculation that the deal may be in trouble, VMware Inc. forged ahead today with a quarterly report that beat consensus estimates on both revenue and profit. Revenue for the fourth quarter rose 5% from a year ...

Snowflake stock falls as it hits the brakes on growth

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 YEARS AGO

Cloud data warehouse provider Snowflake Inc. beat expectations on revenue and earnings in its fiscal fourth quarter today, but a weak forecast sent the stock down more than 7% in initial after-hours trading. Quarterly revenue rose 59% from a year ago, to $589 million, ahead of the average analyst estimate of $576 million. Product revenue ...

Informatica adds data integration to its budding line of free services

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 YEARS AGO

Informatica Corp. is extending its new “freemium” initiatives with today’s introduction of what it says say is the only free cloud data loading, integration and extract/transform/load service. The company is also launching a pay-as-you-go version for users who exceed the limits of the free service or who need more advanced integration capabilities but don’t want ...

EDB boasts ‘five nines’ uptime in new Postgres database version

BIG DATA - BY PAUL GILLIN - 3 YEARS AGO

EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source Postgres database management system, today announced version 5.0 of EDB Postgres Distributed with new high-availability features, easier installation and the ability to integrate with the Open Telemetry suite of observability tools. The company, which was acquired by Bain Capital LP in June, said the ...