Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS
Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden
24 Sep 2021 | 8
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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. His career was waylaid by music, which merited brief session appearances on BBC radio shows including those hosted by Mark Riley, Janice Long and Whispering 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.
Scientists took cues from helicopter seeds to invent tiny microchips that float on wind
Video 'Microfliers' could carry sensors to monitor air pollution and more
24 Sep 2021 | 34
UK Ministry of Defence tries again to procure £1.7bn tri-service recruitment system
New guys can't do a worse job than Capita, right? Right?
24 Sep 2021 | 33
Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous
Comment Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie
22 Sep 2021 | 7
Thatcher-era ICL mainframe fingered for failure to pay out over £1bn in UK pensions
Three or four unconnected systems required for casework leading – unsurprisingly – to errors
22 Sep 2021 | 39
UK civil courts award £10m contract to Version 1 Solutions for end-to-end online processing
Digitisation of the justice system still delivering value for money
22 Sep 2021 | 2
Fivetran snags $565m funding round as Snowflake attempts to eat its lunch with in-house data integration tools
Also buys data replication company HVR for $700m
21 Sep 2021 |
Over 9 months late, England's highways agency launches contract to buy £1bn in IT
Rebranded org now calling itself National Highways
21 Sep 2021 | 15
Yikes, tough crowd: Only 30% of German-speaking users are happy with SAP's cloud push
Updated Licensing, integration and security remain challenges, says DSAG survey
20 Sep 2021 | 3
Snowflake doubters voice reservations over data warehouse's attempt to break into financial services
On-prem systems hold advantages in terms of known costs, say insiders
17 Sep 2021 | 5
Consultants' eyes light up as UK.gov dangles £4bn over 6 years for 'large-scale digital transformation programmes'
Phrase is catnip for software market
17 Sep 2021 | 9
Is it OK to use stolen data? What if it's scientific research in the public interest?
Not always, but Swiss team says you can manage the risks
17 Sep 2021 | 51
Dowden out, Dorries in: Is UK data protection in safe hands?
Comment It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life... for Dorries
16 Sep 2021 | 29
UK Cabinet Office calls off its search for a 'partner' in Whitehall SaaS ERP migration
'This is not the outcome you were hoping for,' bidders told
16 Sep 2021 | 3
Vector database Pinecone promises to bring ML data management under control with 2.0 release
Hybrid disk and RAM system should slash costs, firm says
15 Sep 2021 |
App Annie fined $10m by the SEC for deceptive practices around how it presented data
Analytics firm will neither admit nor deny the findings
15 Sep 2021 | 6
Met Police prepare £300m procurement for integrators and resellers
London cops on track to spend £1bn on IT contracting over couple of years
15 Sep 2021 | 3
Cloud is fundamentally more profitable than on-prem, says Oracle's Safra Catz as revenue misses mark for investors
In case you were wondering why vendors are so excited about it
14 Sep 2021 | 9
When ERP migrations go bad: Games Workshop says project issues are delaying refresh of 'dated' online store
Commissar Yarrick's bale eye focuses on company's web retail presence as 'long and complex' saga continues
14 Sep 2021 | 16
Wipro wins $44.5m deal for data centres and managed services at UK's National Grid
Indian outsourcer bags another utility
13 Sep 2021 | 8
Right to contest automated AI decision under review as part of UK government data protection consultation
Right not to be subjected to solely automated decisions might not be keeping pace with 'data-driven economy' says document
10 Sep 2021 | 36
Spot the dog? No, we couldn't either because Spot is a robot employed by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
Plans to send remote devices to work at 70-year-old decommissioned nuclear power station may not be so barking
10 Sep 2021 | 44
Tennessee agrees to pay Oracle $65m for Nashville relocation plan
There’s room for you and your cowboy boots, we’ll even get you a rhinestone suit
09 Sep 2021 | 14
Biggest takeaway from pandemic lockdowns for Microsoft? Teams stopped talking to each other
Maybe they were using, you know, Microsoft's collaboration service
09 Sep 2021 | 20
