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In the Navy, we want to share data with some ease. In the Navy, can someone help us with this please?

Palantir potentially in line for £50m contract with Brit maritime force

23 Jul 13:45 | 11

Even Facebook struggles: Zuck's titanic database upgrade hits numerous legacy software bergs

The Social Network™ has spent years trying to hop from MySQL 5.6 to 8.0 and still isn’t done

23 Jul 07:01 | 38

How does SAP know business travel is back? Its expenses software unit is still breathing

Want to dust off that flash luggage set? We Concur, says German giant

Snail mail would be a fool-proof way to inform patients about plans to slurp GP data, but UK govt won't commit

'Campaign of engagement and communication' might not include letter, but junior minister doesn't rule it out

21 Jul 12:15 | 39

How Amazon broke free from Oracle

‘Our DBAs all became cloud architects’

England's controversial extraction of personal medical histories from GP systems is delayed for a second time

Doctors wrote to UK government saying they would refuse to hand over data

20 Jul 11:31 | 88

SAP uses Scalpel to carve shape of post-Brexit UK ambitions

Multinational software peddler decides suburban Feltenham just doesn't have the je ne sais quoi it needs

19 Jul 15:31 | 8

Cassandra 4.0 release held back after Apple engineer discovers last-minute bug

Bid to build the most stable iteration of the columnar database has its price

19 Jul 11:30 | 4

Can the cloud help solve your database licensing problems?

As well as allow you to scale up without having to renegotiate contracts

Why cloud databases are taking over the world

It’s a question of scale

MongoDB 5.0 hits GA with a trio of new features for time series data, sharded workloads, Versioned APIs

Will somebody think of the technical debt this creates? cries Percona

Oracle files $7m copyright claim against NEC's US limb over 'unreported royalties' from database distribution

Subsidiary kicked out of Big Red's friend OPN club following audit

09 Jul 19:10 | 33

Infor offloads its asset management unit on Swedish 'digital reality' biz to focus on industry-specific cloud ERP

That's fancy talk for sensors, software, and autonomous technologies btw

NHS England staff voice concerns about access controls on US spy-tech firm Palantir's COVID-19 data store

Foundry platform lacks transparency and accountability, sources tell El Reg

05 Jul 10:01 | 49

SAP founder's charity foundation withdraws from joint venture with software giant

Questions all got a bit too much, although nothing legally wrong with the holding

NASA reaches for graph DB to find people, skills for Moon and Mars missions

Fixing the talent pipeline so that finding rocket scientists doesn't have to be rocket science

01 Jul 01:32 | 2

Fujitsu wins £9m contract hike for Oracle HR system running nearly 3 years late at Northern Ireland Education Authority

Nice work if you can get it

29 Jun 12:13 | 20

Backbench Tory campaigner promises judicial review of data grab of English GP patients unless UK government changes tack

Trove too tempting for computer criminals while public unaware of their rights, says David Davis

25 Jun 16:00 | 27

BMA warns NHS Digital's own confidentiality guardian could halt English GP data grab unless communication with public improves

Data law's transparency requirement currently not being met, according to powerful doctors' union

25 Jun 10:45 | 21

Doggy DNA database adopted by Gloucestershire cops to bring crims to heel

Pet parents asked to fork over £75 for the privilege, though

24 Jun 13:45 | 36

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We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. An exoplanet building its own moons

400 light-years away, satellites are forming

Russia's ISS Multipurpose Laboratory Module launches after years sitting on a shelf, immediately runs into issues

Nauka? More like 'Borka!' Geddit?

Microsoft has a workaround for 'HiveNightmare' flaw: Nuke your shadow copies from orbit

It's the only way to be sure

Akamai Edge DNS goes down, takes a chunk of the internet with it

If you're wondering why some websites disappeared today

Even Facebook struggles: Zuck's titanic database upgrade hits numerous legacy software bergs

The Social Network™ has spent years trying to hop from MySQL 5.6 to 8.0 and still isn’t done

Exsparko-destructus! What happens when wand waving meets extremely poor wiring

You killed my data centre, prepare to die

Activision Blizzard accused by California watchdog of fostering 'frat boy' culture, fatally toxic atmosphere

Games giant pushes back on claims of poor pay, harassment, and more in discrimination lawsuit

Never mind the trolls, Discord hosts 'significant volumes of malware' in its CDN

Biz insists it's trying as hard as possible to scrub clean its IRC-for-the-2020s

Hole blasted in Guntrader: UK firearms sales website's CRM database breached, 111,000 users' info spilled online

One of the worst things that could happen to privacy-focused community

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Is it broken yet? Is it? Is it? Ooh that means I can buy a sparkly, new but otherwise hard-to-justify replacement!

I may consider offering you cash to break it for me

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Enterprise databases deployed in Kubernetes? Proceed with caution, warns seasoned analyst

Deploying the ultimate stateful code in a stateless environment is a 'tricky business' IDC guru opines

24 Jun 07:28 | 14

UK health secretary Matt Hancock follows delay to GP data grab with campaign called 'Data saves lives'

As ever, the devil is in the detail for privacy activists

22 Jun 13:30 | 101

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 | 3

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 | 20

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

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 | 50

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

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