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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Dell expands AI Factory with new data platform, infrastructure and agentic AI features

Dell Technologies Inc. unveiled a sweeping set of updates to its artificial intelligence infrastructure portfolio today, adding new data platform capabilities, AI-optimized storage, servers, networking and workstation systems designed to help enterprises move AI projects from experimentation into large-scale production. The announcements, made at Nvidia Corp.’s GTC conference, mark the two-year anniversary of the Dell ...

HPE broadens AI factory with new Blackwell servers, private cloud upgrades and Rubin infrastructure

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. used Nvidia Corp.’s GTC conference today to roll out a broad expansion of its artificial intelligence portfolio, introducing new systems for enterprise, sovereign and high-performance computing deployments as positions itself as a full-stack supplier for organizations moving AI from pilots into production. The announcements span private cloud systems, edge servers, large-scale ...

Nvidia introduces platform for large-scale AI training and inference

Nvidia Corp. today stoked the fires of the emerging artificial intelligence factory trend with the announcement of Dynamo 1.0, an open-source platform the company is positioning as an essential software layer for large-scale AI deployments. The announcement at the company’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose is aimed at one of the most daunting problems ...

Nvidia expands open AI model portfolio and enlists partners for frontier development

Touting its status as the “world’s largest contributor to open-source AI,” Nvidia Corp. is doubling down on open artificial intelligence development with a broad expansion of its open model ecosystem and the launch of a global collaboration to build next-generation frontier AI systems. The company today introduced new models across several vertical market domains and ...

Exclusive: Panzura updates global file system to cut storage costs and prepare for agentic AI

Panzura LLC is updating its CloudFS hybrid cloud file platform with features aimed at lowering storage infrastructure costs, simplifying operations and preparing enterprise file data for emerging agentic artificial intelligence workloads. Released today, Version 8.7 focuses on reducing the operational burden of large-scale file environments while giving information technology teams greater control over distributed file ...

Databricks launches data engineering copilot and acquires agent evaluation startup Quotient AI

Databricks Inc. today introduced Genie Code, an artificial intelligence agent designed to automate complex data engineering and analytics tasks. The move extends the rapid evolution of agents from software engineering into enterprise data workflows. The data science platform maker also announced the acquisition of Quotient AI Inc., an early-stage startup focused on evaluating and diagnosing ...

New memory architecture targets AI inference bottlenecks 

Lightbits Labs Ltd. today is introducing a new architecture aimed at addressing one of the most stubborn bottlenecks in large-scale artificial intelligence inference: the growing mismatch between the memory demands of large language models and the limited memory capacity of graphics processing units. The company announced a collaborative design with ScaleFlux Inc. and FarmGPU Inc. ...

Exclusive: Virtana customizes its observability platform for AI workloads

Virtana today introduced a new application observability capability designed to track performance problems across the full technology stack from application code to infrastructure, networks, storage and artificial intelligence workloads, an approach the company says addresses gaps in other application performance monitoring tools. The San Jose-based company, whose legal name is Virtual Instruments USA Inc., said ...

CData expands Connect AI platform with agent-specific tooling and governance 

CData Software Inc. is expanding its Connect AI platform with new tooling and governance features designed to help enterprises move artificial intelligence systems from experimental pilots into production environments. The announcement at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando adds new capabilities across connectivity, contextual intelligence and security controls. The company says those three elements ...

Exclusive: LucidLink enables collaboration directly on object storage

LucidLink Corp., provider of a cloud network-attached storage system based on object storage technology, today is introducing LucidLink Connect, a new capability that makes object storage an active workspace where teams can collaborate without migrating or duplicating data. The San Francisco-based company said the feature, now generally available, extends its file streaming platform by enabling ...