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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Starburst adds AI front end in a bid to make conventional business intelligence dashboards obsolete

Starburst Data Inc. today introduced an artificial intelligence capability designed to let business users query and analyze enterprise data using natural language, positioning the offering as a shift away from traditional business intelligence dashboards toward more interactive, real-time decision-making. AI Data Assistant is intended to address what the company describes as a growing disconnect between ...

Quantum computing finds its place alongside classical systems, Livermore scientist says

Quantum computing is emerging as a complementary technology to traditional high-performance computing rather than a wholesale replacement. Quantum systems will act as co-processors that can accelerate specific classes of problems alongside classical supercomputers, according to Kristi Beck (pictured), director of the Livermore Center for Quantum Science at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Speaking to theCUBE in an ...

Quantum computing moves into real-world workflows

As the fifth annual World Quantum Day gets underway on April 14, researchers say the focus of their efforts is shifting from hardware experimentation to integrating quantum systems into broader computing environments alongside artificial intelligence and traditional supercomputers. A team at the Argonne National Laboratory is working to incorporate quantum computing into existing high-performance computing workflows. ...

HubSpot targets AI-driven buyer behavior shift with new tools and agents

Customer relationship management vendor HubSpot Inc. today introduced a set of product updates aimed at helping sales and marketing teams adapt to a shift in how buyers research and engage with vendors, with a particular focus on visibility inside artificial intelligence-driven search tools. The announcements, part of the company’s Spring 2026 Spotlight, center on what ...

Wasabi to acquire Seagate’s Lyve Cloud business

Wasabi Technologies Inc. has agreed to acquire the Lyve Cloud business from Seagate Technology Inc., expanding its position in the market for object storage compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 as enterprises seek alternatives to hyperscale cloud providers. The companies disclosed the transaction in a statement released today. Financial terms were not announced, but ...

Startup Sazabi bets on logs and AI agents to replace traditional observability stacks

Artificial intelligence-driven observability startup Sazabi Inc. is emerging from stealth mode this week with a platform that challenges conventional monitoring approaches by focusing exclusively on log data and using AI agents to automate analysis. The company is positioning its technology as a departure from traditional observability stacks that rely on a combination of logs, metrics ...

Snowflake expands open data strategy with Iceberg V3 support and governance portability plan

Snowflake Inc. is expanding its open data architecture strategy with a set of interoperability enhancements that aim to reduce data movement, simplify governance and improve how artificial intelligence systems access enterprise data. Today’s announcement centers on the ability for organizations to access, govern and analyze data across multiple platforms without being constrained by proprietary systems. ...

Anthropic’s dispute with US government exposes deeper rifts over AI governance, risk and control

The escalating dispute between Anthropic PBC and the U.S. Department of Defense is exposing a fundamental tension in the artificial intelligence market: who ultimately controls how powerful AI systems are used. What began as a contracting and policy disagreement has evolved into a broader debate over national security, corporate responsibility and the limits of self-governance ...

Nutanix expands platforms for agentic AI and hybrid multicloud operations

Nutanix Inc. is used its .NEXT conference this week to outline a broad expansion of its cloud platform, positioning the company to support what it describes as the next phase of enterprise artificial intelligence with agent-driven applications running across hybrid and multicloud environments. Central to today’s announcements are new capabilities in the Nutanix Cloud Platform, ...

Inside Capital One’s shift to a ‘serverless-first’ operating model

Capital One Financial Corp.’s five-year mission to transform its information technology operations to a “serverless-first” model is paying off in improved developer productivity, lower operating costs and a shift away from infrastructure focus toward customer-facing outcomes. The move has been less a technology migration than a redefinition of how applications are built, operated and governed ...