Best time to prepare to leave an Oracle ULA? The day after it starts, say licensing gurus
Big Red 'will always start with a large number and negotiate down'
Databases01 Feb 2023 | 10
Databases
AWS Supercharges Amazon RDS at re:Invent 2022
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AWS doubles down on innovations that redefine the database management experience
Advertorial Unveiling Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift and much more
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Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky
Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics
Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11
Oracle engineering exec quits after tryst with health division
Reports suggest Don Johnson left after 6 months in charge of strategic unit
Databases25 Jan 2023 | 4
Sorry seems to be tech execs' favorite word as DB player Aiven lays off 1 in 5
Finnish open source biz joins elite in correcting pandemic hiring frenzy
Databases23 Jan 2023 | 3
University still living in the Nineties seeks help with move to SAP S/4HANA
Tens of millions up for grabs as institution needs to dump legacy code
Databases17 Jan 2023 | 36
Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit
They're not the meal deal they might seem to be, claims audit expert
Databases16 Jan 2023 | 21
Games Workshop once again battles scariest monster of all: ERP gone wrong
Worldwide expansion reliant on delayed Microsoft Dynamics project as Amazon deal beckons
Databases12 Jan 2023 | 50
That NHS England patient data platform procurement, FDP, is live. And worth up to £480m
References to Palantir use cases, 'unique tools' litter the tender docs as critics mull legal action
Databases11 Jan 2023 | 20
Palantir's Covid-era UK health contract extended without competition
US spy-tech firm's controversial work with patient data pushed out 6 months due to delayed data platform procurement
Databases04 Jan 2023 | 39
$20m SAP ECC replacement project delayed because UK university unsure what it wants
After 10 month’s deliberation, abandons current competition as ERP support deadline looms
Databases03 Jan 2023 | 12
Apache Iceberg promises to change the economics of cloud-based data analytics
Feature Adopted by Snowflake, Google and Cloudera, we look at why the Netflix-developed table format is important
Databases03 Jan 2023 | 6
MariaDB uses SPAC to begin NYSE trading in a tough market for public offerings
Analysis Tech IPOs down 85 percent on last year, research finds
Databases21 Dec 2022 | 8
When ERP projects go bad: Surrey County Council's £30m ditch SAP effort delayed again
Existing hold ups already cost millions as UK authority fails to put a price on latest setback
Databases19 Dec 2022 | 14
French JV wins contract to upgrade NHS Oracle finance system
After four years of talks, competition goes to incumbent supplier
Databases15 Dec 2022 | 1
Don't expect another SAP support deadline extension, user group warns
German software giant unlikely to repeat 2020's concession to users pressure
Databases13 Dec 2022 | 2
Cassandra 4.1 promises dev guardrails and pluggable storage
Apache project focused on stability following previous major upgrade
Databases09 Dec 2022 | 2
SAP still struggling to convert ECC customers to S/4HANA, says Gartner
Latest platform software has not been licensed by two-thirds of legacy users, despite strong growth
Databases06 Dec 2022 | 7
Rights groups threaten legal action over NHS data pilot based on Palantir tech
'Acute and justifiable fear' in the way patient data is set to be processed, campaigners warn
Databases06 Dec 2022 | 21
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Microsoft upgrades Defender to lock down Linux gear for its own good
Ballmer thought this kernel was cancer, Nadella may disagree
helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD
Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners
McDonald's pulls plug on Wi-Fi, starts playing classical music to soothe yobs
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Atos and Nest part company two years into 18-year £1.5bn contract
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210,000+ people in IT now lost their job since start of 2022
Oracle cozies up to IBM, adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux
So much for being 'Unbreakable' say developers
A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report
Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew?
Attackers abuse Microsoft’s 'verified publisher' status to steal data
Malicious OAuth apps were the tickets into victims' systems
Broadcom's VMware battle plan is to challenge hyperscalers
As 17 percent of customers see Virtzilla's short term strategic significance shrinking
Linux Mint 21.2 includes a bit of feature creep from the GNOME world
Plus Xfce flavor desktop based on latest version 4.18
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Microsoft adds silicon muscle into latest Azure SQL database configs
Intel's 'Ice Lake' and AMD's 'Milan' chips bump up speeds and feeds
Databases01 Dec 2022 |
Unrelenting storage growth drives release of Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters
New Amazon DocumentDB feature promises higher storage capacity and support for applications at massive scale
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SQL Server license prices rise ten percent as version 2022 debuts
Udpated Azure SQL pay-as-you-go rate is the only rate that won't change, and it was already expensive
Databases23 Nov 2022 | 26
UK's National Health Service will roll existing Palantir work into patient data platform
Does spy-tech supplier have a head start in bidding for the controversial deal it considers a 'must win'?
Databases21 Nov 2022 | 37
SAP renames developer platform and bundles it with S/4HANA
TechEd But users still need to wait years for business benefits of migration from older systems
Databases17 Nov 2022 |
MotherDuck scores $47.5m to prove scale-up databases are not quackers
Interview Former BigQuery tech lead tells Reg about data-warehouse-on-your-laptop DuckDB
Databases17 Nov 2022 | 6
SAP injects more low code into ERP platform for non-coding biz types
Following AppGyver and Ruum, Build potentially takes pressure off devs’ create-this-feature-now list
Databases15 Nov 2022 | 2
Meet the database that supports Amazon.com
The story behind the serverless database built to support the largest ecommerce company in the world
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University staff voice 'urgent, profound concern' as Oracle finance system delays payments
Edinburgh Uni says it interrupted its financial processes in summer to test new system
Databases14 Nov 2022 | 39
SAP's vision underplays complexity of S/4HANA cloud migration, says Gartner
Difficult decision did not end with RISE with SAP, analyst tells The Reg
Databases10 Nov 2022 | 1
Microservices forcing a fast, data access rethink
To carry it off, make sure you have a database with the right tools for the right job
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UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir system without patient consent
'You'll be hearing from us,' say privacy campaigners who previously forced the government to back down
Databases04 Nov 2022 | 99
Redis swallows RESP.app biz that made its database easier on developers
Acquisition of Ukrainian startup to help broaden appeal beyond popular cache
Databases03 Nov 2022 |
University of Edinburgh staff paid late due to Oracle ERP troubles
Project beginning in 2019 has left employees and suppliers waiting on payments
Databases03 Nov 2022 | 36
Couchbase claims fourfold performance boost for DBaaS using a tenth of the memory
Improvements to storage engine follow DataStax update to API gateway
Databases01 Nov 2022 |
Db2 goes 'cloud-first' as IBM struggles to lift database dinosaur
One foot firmly in the mainframe for pre-loved system dating back to the 1970s
Databases27 Oct 2022 | 6
UK.gov finds billions in cash for big data contracts
Project two years in the making aims to improve public services... or what's left of them
Databases26 Oct 2022 | 20
SAP struggles to exit Russia after sale of support unit stalled
Datacenters, cloud services shut down but keep maintaining DBs for the nation's businesses
Databases25 Oct 2022 | 5
Vodafone to move SAP S/4HANA ERP system to Google Cloud
Spare a thought for the techies hauling on-prem mega-platform of one of world's biggest mobile companies to the fluffy stuff
Databases17 Oct 2022 | 18
US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system
Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out
Databases14 Oct 2022 | 10
SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision
'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios'
Databases14 Oct 2022 | 8
Microsoft attempts to eat Oracle's database lunch with Azure migration service
Ignite Redmond hopes move will lure more to its PostgreSQL managed service
Databases12 Oct 2022 | 5
UK hospitals fall back on pen and paper after Oracle Cerner outage
Staff couldn't access patient records and paper stocks were running low
Databases12 Oct 2022 | 11
Structured data, unstructured data: It shouldn't matter, says Google
GCN Apache Spark comes to BigQuery while BigLake gets Iceberg support
Databases11 Oct 2022 | 2
SAP users see scattered clouds on the horizon
User group's views are at odds with the software giant's direction
Databases11 Oct 2022 | 1
Fivetran slammed for dropping SQL support. CEO: 'Blame me for this'
Updated Ubiquitous database language support continued through third-party tool, users told
Databases07 Oct 2022 | 11
PostgreSQL 15 promises to ease Oracle and SQL Server migrations
MERGE means more code can be copied from earlier installation, because let's be real – that's how it's happening
Databases03 Oct 2022 | 12
Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst drowns data lakehouse concept
Interview Colorful data techie seeks to fend off rivals
Databases03 Oct 2022 | 6
Bank of England puts cloud analytics on todo list after seeing off market collapse
Data more essential than ever, says analytics chief as Liz Truss U-turns on tax, and world+dog remembers Bank's there to manage risk
Databases03 Oct 2022 | 24
Cockroach Labs CTO: Google became too comfortable, I wasn't being challenged
Interview Peter Mattis on starting a multibillion-dollar company as serverless database hits GA
Databases29 Sep 2022 | 4
SAS puts ML and analytics suite on Azure Marketplace
50-year-old software project provides a button the boss can click
Databases27 Sep 2022 |
Oracle pays $23 million to SEC to settle bribery charges
India, Turkey, UAE subsidiaries set up slush funds to bribe 'foreign officials' says watchdog
Databases27 Sep 2022 | 8
Oracle extends share options plans, no bumper payday for execs... yet
Not all investors happy that suits get more time to earn significant stock-option awards
Databases26 Sep 2022 | 4
Oracle verifies Java licensing tools from Flexera and Lime Software
While one vendor says they help prepare for audit, expert warns they don't defend compliance
Databases26 Sep 2022 | 4
Google previews streaming connector for BigQuery
All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory
Databases16 Sep 2022 | 2
NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time
Questions remain over Palantir's influence after consultancy role for former NHS England director revealed
Databases15 Sep 2022 | 29
Want to know the future of FOSS? You can look it up in a database
Opinion If you make it here, you can make it anywhere
Databases12 Sep 2022 | 10
DuckDB, database wrangler used by Google, Facebook, and Airbnb, hits 0.5.0
System look well suited to fill gaps in traditional OLAP market
Databases09 Sep 2022 | 11
Microsoft offers SQL Server 2022 release candidate to Linux world
Redmond loves open source so much, it keeps most of its stuff closed
Databases08 Sep 2022 | 17
Open source databases: What are they and why do they matter?
Feature We trawled through the licensing terms and spoke to the vendors so you don't have to
Databases05 Sep 2022 | 47
ElastiCache - When speed is everything
Using an in-memory cache is the best option to boost your application performance while keeping costs low, says AWS
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Teradata takes on cloud-native rivals with data lakes, MLOps
Reworked use of object storage changes footing with competitors but will need to convince devs
Databases30 Aug 2022 |
Cloudera launches SaaS platform for the lakehouse crowd
And it IS a crowd – marketplace is busy, so it's hoping open approach sets it apart
Databases18 Aug 2022 | 1
Ant Group’s in-house DB set for global release, including Raspberry Pi edition
OceanBase 4.0 is derived from tech behind Alipay and is MySQL compatible
Databases16 Aug 2022 | 7
IBM launches Db2 operator for Kubenetes on AWS
Azure soon to follow as Big Blue accomodates a world with many clouds
Databases20 Jul 2022 | 2
UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform
Patients must have the right to decide what information is taken from health records, say privacy campaigners
Databases20 Jul 2022 | 130
Hundreds of millions up for grabs as UK taxman set to stick with SAP ECC6.0
Updated Support for finance system ends in 2027, leaving questions for HMRC
Databases19 Jul 2022 | 3
SAP unlikely to see most customers move from ECC before support ends
But those who show willing in S/4HANA upgrade might see existing ERP support extended, says Gartner
Databases08 Jul 2022 |
Oracle 12.1 users warned as mainstream support ends in July
12.1 friends without benefits as database pros question LTR with Oracle 12.2
Databases08 Jul 2022 | 3
Oracle, IBM losing ground to local databases in China, says IDC
One market down on China's march toward tech self-sufficiency, a bajillion more to go.
Databases06 Jul 2022 | 5
We need a Library of Congress – but for the digital world
Opinion Hack the future with a meta museum: 1 weird trick to free 50 years of digital life
Databases04 Jul 2022 | 31
Cloudera adopts Apache Iceberg, battles Databricks to be most open in data tables
Move follows Databricks' donation of Delta Lake 2.0 to Linux Foundation
Databases01 Jul 2022 |
DataStax launches streaming data platform with backward support for JMS
Or move to Apache Pulsar for efficiency gains, says NoSQL vendor
Databases29 Jun 2022 |
Infor to stop developing CM3 on-prem software for IBM iSeries
Updated ERP vendor had promised containerized options, but looks set to focus on the cloud
Databases29 Jun 2022 |
YugabyteDB tempts devs with read-committed isolation levels
It's easier than retraining PostgreSQL devs, says distributed relational database startup
Databases28 Jun 2022 | 2
Rows, columns, and the search for a database that can do everything
Analysis Snowflake last week promised analytics and transactions in the same system. For some it was déjà vu all over again
Databases22 Jun 2022 | 6
NoSQL player Aerospike links up with Starburst for SQL-based access to edge data
'We’re not necessarily replacing Snowflake' is an interesting choice of words
Databases15 Jun 2022 |
Cassandra vendor DataStax secures $115m investment for $1.6b valuation
Tech stock crash fails to deter Goldman Sachs as it leads funding round in the real-time data specialist
Databases15 Jun 2022 | 1
Database from the 1980s needs time travel says author
It's back to the future for PostgreSQL as Michael Stonebraker lists priorities for the popular open-source system he helped create
Databases14 Jun 2022 | 5
MongoDB wants to grab work from other databases
Analysis Goal is to bring analytics to its transactional workloads but there are places where this might fall short
Databases13 Jun 2022 | 4
Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail
Delays said to favor Palantir as health service seeks suppliers to support its top-down data revolution
Databases13 Jun 2022 | 43
Oracle plans US database for electronic health records
Based in the Big Red cloud, the system will suck up records from hospitals and physicians, says CTO Larry Ellison
Databases10 Jun 2022 | 18
MongoDB announces columnstore indexing for its document database
Boost to in-database analytics should help replace some human decision-making, vendor claims
Databases07 Jun 2022 | 1
Keeping your head as an entire database goes pear-shaped
Who, Me? How do you spell 'backup' again? 'D' 'R' 'O' 'P'...
Databases30 May 2022 | 135
We have bigger targets than beating Oracle, say open source DB pioneers
Advocates for MySQL and PostgreSQL see broader future for movement they helped create
Databases25 May 2022 | 12
CockroachDB adds command line tool as database hits version 22.1
The Register speaks to Jim Walker about maturity and super regions
Databases24 May 2022 | 5
Beware the fury of a database developer torn from tables and SQL
Who, Me? Not so much process privilege rings, more circles of hell
Databases23 May 2022 | 176
Percona launches management system aimed at open-source databases
Percona Live PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL tools for overly busy DBAs, less experienced devs
Databases17 May 2022 |
Oracle really does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub
Appeal petition as doomed as the Itanic chips at the heart of decade-long drama
Databases17 May 2022 | 59
Finnish open-source-as-a-service startup Aiven adds $1bn to valuation
Demand for PostgreSQL and Kafka driving interest in cloud service, CEO tells The Register
Databases13 May 2022 | 3
What 'share of wallet' means and why it matters to SAP
German software giant reprises old motifs at annual show Sapphire
Databases12 May 2022 | 3
A discounting disaster averted at the expense of one's own employment
Who, Me? I know what this process needs: Microsoft Access!
Databases02 May 2022 | 87
Microsoft fixes cross-account vulns in Azure Database for PostgreSQL service
Presented by the Wiz team that found the Cosmos DB flaw
Databases28 Apr 2022 | 2
Aerospike takes swipe at document databases JSON support
MongoDB, Couchbase in the crosshairs as Aerospike tries to broaden use cases
Databases28 Apr 2022 | 1
Oracle to release on-prem software usage tools to prep cloud switch
Experts advise caution in sharing data with Big Red – it could be used in license audits
Databases25 Apr 2022 | 13
Oracle contracts and pricing a 'challenge', says Gartner
While heaping praise on Big Red, analysts find room to criticize licensing, negotiations, and integration
Databases21 Apr 2022 | 6
New graph database features eschew need for DBAs
Python's stranglehold in data science makes Neo4j rethink language strategy
Databases12 Apr 2022 | 3
Db2 13 makes z/OS debut, promises AI, hybrid cloud features
Long-awaited major release welcomed by users who wish IBM would promote it a little more
Databases11 Apr 2022 | 2
Real-time data analytics firm Tinybird nets $37m in Series A
Millions of rows per second in real time, so the legend goes...
Databases05 Apr 2022 | 1
SAP hits 50: Entrenched, spread out and fully middle-aged
Feature Tech’s posterchild of German industrial success must face its failures as it succumbs to midlife angst
Databases01 Apr 2022 | 21
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