Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD
2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech
Public Sector25 Mar 2024 | 36
Database
Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB
Updated Exclusive Regulatory body insists it's on 'a journey of improvement'
Databases22 Mar 2024 | 87
Nutanix catapults IP theft sueball at DBaaS startup Tessell
Claims former staff ripped off IP and even did demos for their new company on Nutanix computers
Databases21 Mar 2024 | 1
Voltron Data revs up hyper-speed analytics, leaves Snowflake in the dust
GPU-based system offers high performance off Parquet files
Databases19 Mar 2024 | 7
Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase
Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials
CSO18 Mar 2024 | 11
Oracle investors hear the magic word 'Nvidia' and boom! Buy, buy, buy
Forget the piffle about real world results, let's look at the potential of wundertech
Databases12 Mar 2024 |
Home Office’s shiny immigration system glitches causing delays
Amid reports emerge of technical issues, immigration teams keep 24-year-old legacy system up and running
Public Sector12 Mar 2024 | 25
PlanetScale ends free tier bid, sheds staff in profitability bid
CEO defends decision in difficult tech market
Databases11 Mar 2024 | 1
Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support
Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases
Databases04 Mar 2024 | 2
MariaDB receives offer to go private more than year after disastrous IPO
$37.3M bid significantly down from SPAC flotation valued at $672M
Databases20 Feb 2024 | 7
Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards
Iris scan, voice samples and blood type to be included in database
Public Sector20 Feb 2024 | 23
Oracle database deal in Azure comes with a health warning from licensing experts
Updated Five months after cloud love-in, critics worry about costs of deploying Oracle hardware and DBs in Microsoft’s cloud
Databases05 Feb 2024 | 9
CockroachDB tempts legacy databases to crawl into the cloud age
Distributed system makes a grab for Oracle, Db2 features
Databases29 Jan 2024 | 5
Oracle continues GenAI push into enterprise data
Don't leave us for LLM systems in other clouds, says Big Red
Databases23 Jan 2024 |
What's worse than paying an extortion bot that auto-pwned your database?
Paying one that lied to you and only saved the first 20 rows of each table
Research17 Jan 2024 | 17
Open source PostgreSQL named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines
Already more than 37 years old, the relational system continues to gain popularity
Databases03 Jan 2024 | 16
Google flaunts concurrency, optimization as cloud rivals overhaul platforms
Feature Details sub-CPU allotments, performant Iceberg tables after Microsoft, Databricks bring market noise
Databases03 Jan 2024 |
Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
Interview Turing Award winner whose research and startups broke ground for five decades, tells The Reg he has more up his sleeve
Databases26 Dec 2023 | 73
Nearly a million non-profit donors' details left exposed in unsecured database
Trusted by major charities, DonorView publicly exposed children’s names and addresses, among other data
Cyber-crime13 Dec 2023 | 22
VictoriaMetrics takes organic growth over investor pressure
Interview Keeping the lights on with an enterprise product while staying true to your roots
Security11 Dec 2023 |
IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon
Updated Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though
Databases29 Nov 2023 | 7
Couchbase takes fight to MongoDB with columnar side store upgrade
DBaaS update aimed at customers looking for live analytics on apps
Databases28 Nov 2023 |
Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market
Analysis But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition
Databases27 Nov 2023 | 2
Databricks' lakehouse becomes foundation under fresh layer of AI dreams
Mega startup serves slice of GenAI with data engineering main as it tries to upstage Microsoft’s Fabric showpiece
Storage16 Nov 2023 |
Microsoft touts mirroring over moving in data warehouse gambit
Ignite Fabric update cuts against the grain, and may have more to do with Databricks partnerships
Databases15 Nov 2023 |
Pharma boffins sharpen hunt for target molecules using graph DB
French pharma firm Servier gets Neo4j to help find relationships in 'messy' data
Databases08 Nov 2023 | 1
While it waited for Broadcom, VMware set out to do to data services what it did to storage
And decided Intel's GPUs are worthy of on-prem AI action
Virtualization07 Nov 2023 | 1
Snowflake puts LLMs in the hands of SQL and Python coders
As more features come to Data Cloud, customers might want to keep an eye on consumption
Storage02 Nov 2023 | 2
Irish cops data debacle exposes half a million motorist records
Details of civilians and Garda officers were included, as well as high-res scans of identity documents
Security24 Oct 2023 | 9
Ex-Navy IT manager gets 5 years in slammer for 2018 database heist
Seafaring cybercrim's wife faces similar sentence next month
Security19 Oct 2023 | 2
Analysts scratch heads over MariaDB's decision to ditch DBaaS crown jewels
'Their future is murky at the moment'
Databases19 Oct 2023 | 5
In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk
Aims to lower costs and broaden appeal of system popular with devs
Databases19 Oct 2023 | 10
TileDB secures $34M to reimagine databases, not just collect GitHub stars
System aims to clean mess of high-performance analytics cluttering the modern data stack
Databases17 Oct 2023 | 3
MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall
Strategic DBaaS and distributed back end jettisoned after years of promotion
Databases13 Oct 2023 | 12
Microsoft extends life support for aging Apache Cassandra 3.11 database
But only if you're ready to cozy up in Azure's abode
Databases10 Oct 2023 |
In rare bout of generosity, Oracle extends free support for Database 19c
Big Red says it wants to give customers time to upgrade to 23c, which only exists in the cloud for now
Databases06 Oct 2023 | 5
DuckDB shuns VC breadcrumbs so support isn't all it's quacked up to be
Company behind popular in-process OLAP system feels weight of success
Databases05 Oct 2023 | 1
NTT will take those SAP licenses off your hands if it helps ease cloud migration
Bid to break impasse where boards only see costs
Databases28 Sep 2023 | 5
MongoDB's SQL-to-NoSQL converter uses AI to smash the language barrier
Tell it what you want to do, and it spits out the relevant code
Databases27 Sep 2023 | 7
VCs lay $52.5M golden egg for MotherDuck's serverless analytics platform
Database service vendor based on open source DuckDB fattens up to $400M valuation
Databases21 Sep 2023 |
Venture capital firm makes 'unsolicited' bid for MariaDB buyout
Database company, which went through an IPO in December last year, was still in search of credit facility as of August
Databases19 Sep 2023 | 4
Tabular's Iceberg vision goes from Netflix and chill to database thrill
Promise of neutral data layer between vendors' vested interests attracts $26M
Databases19 Sep 2023 |
Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure
At least it was the weekend
PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2023 | 3
CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit
Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project
Databases18 Sep 2023 | 4
There are lots of ways to put a database in the cloud – here's what to consider
Feature Choosing the right one for you means understanding the trade-off, says MySQL expert Peter Zaitsev
Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Sep 2023 | 3
Oracle cloud hardware to reside in Azure datacenters – and Microsoft's good with that
Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency that alows data moving from DBs to AIs
Off-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 7
Decades-old Home Office asylum system misses EOL deadline, no new timetable in place
Exclusive Replacement due more than a decade ago, Casework Information Database soldiers on as case backlog hits record highs
Databases06 Sep 2023 | 38
Google wants to take a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service
Third-party and bespoke apps most likely candidates for the switch
Databases30 Aug 2023 | 15
MariaDB's revenue grows as new CEO settles in, but bank loan discussions continue
New exec works on 'strategic, operational and financial reviews' as existing loan maturity nears
Databases25 Aug 2023 | 1
Fauna Query Language tamed to appeal to developers
Latest revision takes inspiration from TypeScript, Python, and GraphQL
Databases22 Aug 2023 | 6
You're not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak
Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies admit to accidentally including raw crime data in FoI responses
Security15 Aug 2023 | 59
AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off
Join Snowflake, Cloudera, Google as Apache format fans
Databases01 Aug 2023 |
Ambulance patient records system hauled offline for cyber-attack probe
UK trusts serving 12 million people affected as vendor awaits results of forensic investigation
Cyber-crime26 Jul 2023 | 13
Lucky backup might save 100 days of data for InfluxData's GCP Belgium users
Updated AWS Sydney users less fortunate – the backup was deleted
Databases14 Jul 2023 | 9
InfluxData apologizes for deleting cloud regions without performing 'scream test'
Despite attempts to inform customers, some say they never got the memo
Databases11 Jul 2023 | 25
Putting LLMs into production is a monumental task – vector databases could light the way
MongoDB joins joins Cassandra, PostgreSQL and SingleStore in implementing AI-friendly features
AI + ML11 Jul 2023 | 1
MariaDB sent dollar dip warning from NYSE
No immediate risk of delisting, but company intends to claw its way back
Databases05 Jul 2023 | 7
Databricks puts cards on the table format as Snowflake looks for more players
Analysis Enterprises want a single data platform for data lakes and warehouse, but tech's not there yet, say analysts
Databases29 Jun 2023 | 2
Oracle certifies its database for Arm architecture on-prem and in cloud
Only for Ampere – but with a licencing twist that means Intel and AMD can't relax
Databases29 Jun 2023 | 5
Rejecting Intel, Oracle pumps up Exadata beef cake with AMD protein
Muscular system gets first update in two years with Epyc injection
Systems23 Jun 2023 | 1
CockroachDB hits Azure at last after five-year mission
Interview The database had to be architected from ground up, former GIMP dev Spencer Kimball tell us
Databases09 Jun 2023 | 2
MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations
Former MySQL fork launches attack on hyperscaler database services with support for multiple front ends
Databases16 May 2023 | 44
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