Xpand your horizons: MariaDB launches distributed query engine into proprietary DBaaS
But beware lock-in-as-a-service, analyst warns
07 May 2021 |
Lindsay Clark has been writing about business technology for more than 20 years, starting at PC Week in the late 1990s. He went on to manage the news team at Computer Weekly in the early 2000s, the then gong-collecting staple of ITâs senior managers. His career was waylaid by music, which merited brief session appearances on BBC radio shows including those hosted by Mark Riley, Janice Long and âWhisperingâ Bob Harris. As a freelance journalist, he has written for The Financial Times, The Guardian and a list of B2B titles as long as your arm. He joined The Register in February 2020.
Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away
Software giant vows data processing of EU cloud services to stay in EU, which means that currently...
07 May 2021 | 11
There may have been problems with the JEDI deal but you still wouldn't have won, Oracle told by US govt
They were not the cloud we were looking for, says DoD in brief to Supreme Court
06 May 2021 | 17
OVH outlines three-point 'hyper resilience' plan after Strasbourg fire
Please insert tape number 363 of 4087*
06 May 2021 | 21
Highways England seeks vendor to replace Windows 2003-based pavement management systems
Updated Whoever came up with the SWEEP acronym can have a job at El Reg
06 May 2021 | 24
Aerospike adds set indexing and SQL expressions to make the distributed NoSQL database more ML-friendly
New Spark 3.0 connector will appeal to users too, analyst says
05 May 2021 |
UK's Department for Work and Pensions continues to move off Oracle Enterprise Data Warehouse in pursuit of a single version of the truth
Redshift, Cloudera among preferred platforms, but after 7 years Big Red's system refuses to die
05 May 2021 | 6
Pega set to launch 'context-aware' APIs that let users tweak back-end processes without breaking front end
Updates designed to ease 'expensive and challenging' software, analyst says
04 May 2021 | 2
Stuck in R/3verse: East Sussex County Council struggles to move forward with £25m SAP replacement
Hardware supporting ageing system is mired in performance issues
04 May 2021 | 14
Palantir co-founder, CEO Alexander Karp gets $1.1bn bumper payday in IPO year
Sometimes the love of ICE and UK.gov is not enough
30 Apr 2021 | 8
Happy Friday? Darktrace gets 40 per cent boost on London IPO debut
AI infosec start-up avoids same opening day peril as Deliveroo
30 Apr 2021 | 3
SAP to pay $8m in non-prosecution agreement with US authorities over Iran sanction violations
'We accept full responsibility for past conduct,' says German software giant
30 Apr 2021 | 7
Feel like you've been sucked through your vendors' pipes? ServiceNow's marketing has you in mind
Violet, you're turning ... to our digital workflows!
30 Apr 2021 |
Not as many $1m customers as last quarter? Sorry, we're out: ServiceNow shares fall despite soaring revenues
Not a good look for company 'at the epicentre of the workflow revolution'
29 Apr 2021 | 4
UK government gives Automated Lane Keeping Systems the green light for use on motorways
But at less than 37mph, don't expect anything to be quick
28 Apr 2021 | 141
Brit MPs and campaigners come together to oppose COVID status certificates as 'divisive and discriminatory'
Transport minister confirms use of the NHS app for just that when citizens travel abroad
28 Apr 2021 | 127
State of Maine lays off 15 independent consultants on $13k a month amid efforts to implement troubled Workday system
Vendor claims government failed to provide 'clear direction' for the project
27 Apr 2021 | 27
UK government resists pressure to hold statutory inquiry into Post Office Horizon scandal
MPs unite behind call to hold those responsible to account, but minister says it would take too long
27 Apr 2021 | 80
Transport Scotland has £47m to drag its traffic management systems into the 21st century
Existing supplier was first contracted back in the 1990s
27 Apr 2021 | 10
Dam it: Beaver ate our internet, says tiny Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge
Then made a house out of it
26 Apr 2021 | 46
Security vendor Proofpoint snapped up by private equity for $12.3bn but still in search of profit
Thoma Bravo follows Sophos purchase with further infosec landgrab
26 Apr 2021 | 2
Salesforce beats banks to top UK exec salary survey while Microsoft drops out of league
Come for the 'ohana', stay for the massive piles of cash
23 Apr 2021 | 3
Qualtrics posts revenue, subscription rise after leaving SAP's bosom
Plus: UiPath and Teradata give investors reason for cheer. Yes, plenty of the wrong people happy on a Thursday in lockdown
22 Apr 2021 | 1
Origami... in spaaaaace: Inflatable folded objects discovery brings new meaning to blowing up buildings
Space-saving structures could work well in 'space missions'
22 Apr 2021 | 27
