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Databases

Oracle-owned ERP outfit NetSuite fitted with banking and data warehouse features to keep accountants sane

It's about helping steer the business without so many spreadsheets, says analyst

19 Oct 18:45 | 1

Northern Ireland Water ready to take the plunge with HR and finance software, prepares to flush Oracle R12.2

Utility biz has £28m to spend on replacement system

19 Oct 11:27 | 4

Spanner in the works: The goal is not 100% compatibility, Google says of PostgreSQL interface

Meanwhile, Yugabyte says PostgreSQL compatibility for its distributed database dates back to 2019

15 Oct 13:28 | 5

Soaring cloud division turns things around for SAP after annus horribilis that was 2020

Remember those car-crash results in Q3 a year ago? No repeat collision this time round

13 Oct 15:22 | 2

And finally... Oracle bags £25m ERP deal to replace East Sussex County Council's SAP R/3 system

Award delayed nine months due to pandemic

13 Oct 08:30 | 5

Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace

Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says

12 Oct 13:02 | 149

AWS gets persistent with MemoryDB for Redis

Amazon service offers 'real, solid, multi-Availability Zone durability'

England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data

Proposed law could 'erode trust and confidence' in healthcare

11 Oct 12:16 | 43

Mapping out that long march to database freedom? Here’s what your first steps should be

Mapping your migration has never been easier

Why have one on-prem database, when you could have 15 in the cloud?

It really is time to declare your Database Freedom

Testing times: Microsoft gets PostgreSQL on Azure a day after GA

High end workloads with Hyperscale (Citus)

04 Oct 17:29 | 2

Open-source veteran PostgreSQL emits release 14: Tweaked, scalable, and ready to get heavy

That's the hope as distributed and heavy workloads promised a boost in targeting Oracle for high-end workloads

01 Oct 18:58 | 14

tz database community up in arms over proposals to merge certain time zones

Handbags at 12 o'clock! Er, is that with or without daylight saving?

28 Sep 08:30 | 124

Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS

Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden

24 Sep 18:41 | 10

Yikes, tough crowd: Only 30% of German-speaking users are happy with SAP's cloud push

Licensing, integration and security remain challenges, says DSAG survey

20 Sep 12:15 | 3

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 10:00 | 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

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 13:45 | 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 09:43 | 16

How AWS created Aurora, a database built for the cloud

Rewriting the rules with logs

Popular

Think your phone is snooping on you? Hold my beer, says basic physics

Information wants to be free, and it's making its escape

What do you mean you gave the boss THAT version of the report? Oh, ing balls

Say what you mean

Microsoft called out as big malware hoster – thanks to OneDrive and Office 365 abuse

Infosec pro: 'OneDrive abuse has been going on for years'

Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims

We can't wait to see the logic gymnastics needed to justify this

Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors

x86 is an eighty-sixed ex

Oops, they did it again – rogue Soyuz spurt gave ISS an attitude problem

Crew successfully de-orbited on Sunday carrying vital payload: footage for a movie shot in space

If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002

Alternative headline: Yet another widely used project maintained thanklessly by 'some random person in Nebraska'

Microsoft admits to yet more printing problems in Windows as back-at-the-office folks asked for admin credentials

Saving the forests by making printing even harder

Chinese developers rebel against long working hours with crowdsourced tell-all on employers

Despite modern labour laws, 72-hour work weeks are still common

Chinese tech minister says he's 'dealt with' 73,000 sites that breached the law

Ongoing crackdown saw apps 1.83 million apps tested, 4,200 told to clean up their act, pop-up ads popped

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Spending watchdog blames British Home Office for delays to £1bn crime-fighting IT system

Department says it's prepared to run ailing Police National Computer out of support if it has to

13 Sep 14:30 | 11

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 18:32 | 14

Google plays catch-up with JSON support for distributed RDBMS Spanner

Nice if you want to store extra attributes with changing relational schema, but not a threat to NoSQL specialists

08 Sep 16:45 | 2

Met Office signs 32 vendors to £30m framework to put the wind up data platform

Deloitte, Computacenter, KPMG, E&Y among listed suppliers hired by local weather watcher

07 Sep 09:13 | 12

Dobler effect: Spinnaker Support snaps up rival database consultant

Sets sights on third party support and managed services for Oracle, SAP and Microsoft

06 Sep 16:32 | 1

Big data means big money for the UK government as £2bn tender mooted

Central procurement team tickles the market with tantalising offer... but what for?

03 Sep 14:10 | 12

NHS England's release of 'details' on access to Palantir COVID-19 data store: Good enough? We're in a 'dialogue' says national data watchdog

Critics, meanwhile, voice incredulity over how little data has been shared

31 Aug 10:34 | 16

Rockset hopes to lessen streaming analytics time-suck by having SQL transform live data

Could help boost deployment times, says analyst

27 Aug 12:33 | 1

'Worst' AWS service ever? Cloud giant introduces Redis-compatible MemoryDB – to mixed response

'The absolute best sales pitch for Redis that I have ever seen'

23 Aug 12:25 | 9

JSON shouldn’t be a trial ... if you plot the right course at the outset

Join us online and your next migration could be plain sailing

UK's National Data Guardian warned about GP data grab being perceived as going 'under the radar'

And oh look.... 1.27 million extra opt-outs in July

19 Aug 10:43 | 31

Big questions about Cognitive Search? We’ve got the answers you need

Sometimes you need a little help with those big questions

Watchdog 'disappointed' it took NHS England over a year to release details of access to Palantir COVID-19 data store

18 months after controversial project began, non-departmental public body finally gives up the goods

18 Aug 13:29 | 70

Take these three steps to unify and manage your data

Putting your information to work for you

Leeds City Council swallows the Gartner glossary and orders up 'post-modern' ERP in £44m SAP replacement

When do we get avant-garde ERP?

03 Aug 09:31 | 9

NHS England's £200m ERP replacement misses another deadline as procurement runs 2 years behind schedule

Delivery of project to manage £110bn spending 'appears to be unachievable' says UK government's own watchdog

02 Aug 10:41 | 19

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