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That aging database isn’t just an inconvenience. It’s blocking your entire digital transformation

Hear how real-world users have switched to DBaaS with the Nutanix Database Summit on-demand

Graph DB slinger Neo4j secures $325m round of funding for $2bn valuation

Also touts sharded graph application running on 1,000 servers

17 Jun 16:01 | 2

British Medical Association calls for clarity on patient deadline for opting out of NHS Digital's GP data grab

Did health service's tech arm give a cut-off date for doctors to process forms? Apparently not

16 Jun 11:30 | 19

Of all the analytics firms in the world, why is Palantir getting its claws into UK health data?

Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee asked health secretary Matt Hancock, but he wasn't much help

15 Jun 10:45 | 48

'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary

A day before THAT delay, Matt Hancock told MPs that 'citizens' own the data he'd instructed the health department to take by default

09 Jun 09:15 | 86

UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients

What's that? Letting people know just weeks before was a bad idea?

08 Jun 13:59 | 64

UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp until patients can be properly informed

Plus: National watchdog says pseudonymisation is data processing

07 Jun 14:29 | 41

What does your database future look like? If it looks like the past, you’re in trouble

Here's a short and sweet summit by Nutanix to set you in the right direction

BMA and Royal College of GPs refuse to endorse NHS Digital's data grab from surgeries in England

BMA separately calls for a delay to the programme

04 Jun 15:01 | 49

SAP pushes supply chain solution at COVID-hit market as Sapphire Now bash begins

Analyst: 'They need to blow up the obsolete Ariba engine first'

What a difference 4 years makes: Cloudera goes private again in $5.3bn buyout

CDR and KKR the new owners of shape-shifting data platform biz

NHS GP data grab: Royal College of General Practitioners urges health body to communicate better

We've kind of got a lot going on right now with vaccinating etc... maybe you could do the comms bit, huh?

01 Jun 12:17 | 16

Google drinks from Oracle's pond: SQL system log slurp part of grand data-sharing vision

There are 'advantages', but you must submit to 'the Google way of doing things,' warns analyst

28 May 16:29 | 6

Microsoft unveils its latest Cosmos DB lure for developers: More free stuff and an emulator for Linux

Also: ~~Blockchain~~ Ledger for Azure SQL Database

25 May 19:59 | 4

Conflicting messaging overshadows NHS Digital's attempts to inform public about patient data slurp

Which opt-out is the right opt-out? Are they selling data or not?

24 May 09:47 | 51

Graph databases to map AI in massive exercise in meta-understanding

Is Gartner ahead of its time, or just bonkers? You. Be. The. Judge.

20 May 10:02 | 10

PlanetScale grabs YouTube-developed open-source tech, promises Vitess DBaaS with on-the-fly schema changes

Demand growing for scale-y transactional monster, say analysts

Unit4 handed police ERP deal after 'significant deficiency' found in Oracle Fusion system

Big Red product only went live in 2019, but commissioner is ready to ditch it

18 May 10:03 | 12

Oracle sues Envisage claiming unauthorized database use amid licensing crackdown

Fiscal year end forecast: Cloudy with a chance of litigation

17 May 13:03 | 27

Rapping otters and automated database knob-twiddling: An obvious combination in some universe or other

OtterTune to compete with Oracle automation, but also for open source databases

14 May 10:45 | 4

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Like the massive ships with miniguns

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Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world'

Facebook, academics think they've cracked spotting deepfakes by spotting how they're generated

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Amazon says it's all social media's fault for letting fake review schemes thrive

Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control?

Stob treks back across the decades to review the greatest TV sci-fi in the light of recent experience

Open-source projects glibc and gnulib look to sever copyright ties with Free Software Foundation

Project maintainers follow GCC in dropping copyright assignment requirement

You had one job: Akamai's Prolexic Denial-of-Service protection system fingered after users in Australia denied, er, services

Major banks, websites, gaming services, and more taken down

Three million job cuts coming at Indian services giants by next year, says Bank of America

Report says robotic process automation to shrink headcount by 30 per cent and boost profits — yet the outsourcers keep talking about hiring sprees

We've found another reason not to use Microsoft's Paint 3D – researchers

Scream if you wanna go raster: Vulnerability uncovered in unloved software

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SAP co-founder's charitable arm made investments in a joint venture with the software giant

Foundation is 'passive investor' alongside private equity firm Dediq, firm says

12 May 14:38 | 5

Jaguar Land Rover reaches for graph database in search of supply chain knowledge during chip shortage

Top dog Neo4j just wouldn't scale, says car giant's data boss

10 May 10:01 | 15

Xpand your horizons: MariaDB launches distributed query engine into proprietary DBaaS

But beware lock-in-as-a-service, consultant warns

Highways England seeks vendor to replace Windows 2003-based pavement management systems

Whoever came up with the SWEEP acronym can have a job at El Reg

06 May 08:30 | 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

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 08:06 | 7

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 08:30 | 14

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 10:01 | 10

You only love me for my cache: New modules try to make NoSQL Redis more of a general-purpose database

7.0 out second half of the year

21 Apr 17:09 | 1

Oracle cuts support for South African energy biz Eskom in long-running licensing dispute

'Eskom should pay the pending dues for the Oracle software that they use'

19 Apr 11:43 | 14

Oracle pumps $1.2bn into Nashville campus as search for southern comfort goes on

Mayor thrilled with $175m up front for Guitar Town infrastructure projects

15 Apr 17:19 | 2

Google proposes Logica data language for building more manageable SQL code

COBOL-inspired caps lock English just don't add up when dealing with large SQL codebases

15 Apr 10:25 | 93

SAP's operating profits might be down but cloud-fixated ERP biz thinks things are looking up enough to hike full-year guidance

Shrugs off 21% slump – that's just infra shift, share awards

14 Apr 16:01 | 2

Redis Labs doubles value to $2bn in 9 months with $110m Series G funding round

SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 steps up to boost the coffers of NoSQL database biz

07 Apr 16:27 | 1

No payrise for Oracle CEO Safra Catz, but at least there's $76.4m from trading company shares to fall back on

That and the $950k salary

31 Mar 09:18 | 14

MoJ cancels £100m ERP procurement to get in line with UK government shared service strategy

Hmmm. Shared services... that always works out really well, right?

29 Mar 08:45 | 8

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