Oracle gets Big Red reality check after financials fail to impress Strong year ends with a dip, but Ellison signs Meta deal to boost AI cred Databases10 Dec 2024 | 4
SAP says GenAI will help solve legacy migration skills shortage As 2027 support deadline looms, German vendor puts faith in on-trend tech to help SIs do more with less Databases10 Dec 2024 | 14
Foursquare to close, but Swarm game will live on And the company is doing the right thing with its database Databases27 Nov 2024 | 7
UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in Updated Meanwhile, budget clambered from £2.6M to nearly £40M, says report Databases26 Nov 2024 | 54
Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service Ignite Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet Databases19 Nov 2024 | 6
Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI Ignite Better locking, improved query optimization, and... Copilot Databases19 Nov 2024 | 5
UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries Databases18 Nov 2024 |
Microsoft Power Pages misconfigurations exposing sensitive data NHS supplier that leaked employee info fell victim to fiddly access controls that can leave databases dangling online Security15 Nov 2024 | 6
Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data Cortex-powered front end for easier access to insights across multiple sources Databases13 Nov 2024 |
Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation Databases08 Nov 2024 | 73
Single-platform approach may fall short for AI data management Data platform vendors can't meet all your needs, warns Gartner Databases07 Nov 2024 | 3
Users struggle with recipe when moving enterprise apps to the cloud From meatballs and spaghetti to lasagna – same ingredients, different structure, says analyst Databases05 Nov 2024 | 8
NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords As another government yet again seeks to reform UK GDPR, legislators say data must continue to flow Public Sector23 Oct 2024 | 189
OpenAI's rapid growth loaded with 'corner case' challenges, says Fivetran CEO Interview GenAI poster child is a 100-story-tall baby with simple infrastructure but extreme demands Databases23 Oct 2024 |
Clock's ticking on PostgreSQL 12, but not everyone is ready to say goodbye 11% of databases still on aging version with a month of support left Databases22 Oct 2024 | 10
UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project Gloucestershire continues with legacy system as SaaS replacement delayed by more than a year Databases21 Oct 2024 | 13
Someone's finally taking on £10M Hull City Council ERP deal to replace Oracle Step forward Workday after mega long procurement to support system that went live 22 years ago Databases18 Oct 2024 | 23
Inexorable march of progress at SAP threatens to leave users behind AI hardly a hot topic with some customers calling for more innovation on-prem Databases16 Oct 2024 | 4
NHS England warned about plans to extend Covid-era rules for patient data access Governance and public consultation need work before rule change goes ahead Databases16 Oct 2024 | 9
Big data vendors introduce Apache Iceberg features in same week Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way Databases14 Oct 2024 | 3
US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns Boeing-Bell V-22 can't outfly its checkered past, it seems
Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic Updated Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations
Microsoft holds last Patch Tuesday of the year with 72 gifts for admins Patch Tuesday Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, patching was done with the click of a mouse
Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention AI assistant goes native – sort of – for Windows Insiders
Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands
Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation admits to hole in security Belly-busting biz says it's been hit by cowardly custards
Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway Few websites actually respect the option, says Mozilla
US names Chinese national it alleges was behind 2020 attack on Sophos firewalls Also sanctions his employer – an outfit called Sichuan Silence linked to Ragnarok ransomware
Three more vulns spotted in Ivanti CSA, all critical, one 10/10 Patch up, everyone – that admin portal is mighty attractive to your friendly cyberattacker
Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident With two legal wins and one secret settlement on the books, the odds are in the automaker's favor
Get more licenses for less with SAP price tiering, advise experts German ERP vendor entices users to cloud, but be aware of how the system works, ITAM experts warn Databases14 Oct 2024 | 4
Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models Exclusive Tamed DB sprawl and saved cloudy resources with 'X-Stor' Databases11 Oct 2024 | 8
Workday beats Oracle and Microsoft in UK 'Matrix' ERP deal The SaaS-only provider and Cognizant snag £144.3M in gov software shake-up Databases08 Oct 2024 | 8
SAP offers different way to move SQL Server-based software to the cloud Just don’t call it an alternative to RISE with SAP Databases07 Oct 2024 | 3
The force is strong in Iceberg: Are the table format wars entering the final chapter? Interview Former Apple engineer and Apache PMC member Russell Spitzer describes efforts to unite around a single format Databases03 Oct 2024 | 26
Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration Exclusive Britain's Asda admits tech divorce from ex-owner Walmart is still overrunning Databases03 Oct 2024 | 109
MongoDB rebuts claims it's not ready for business critical workloads Shifting battle-hardened systems to document model – are your skills and tools ready? Databases03 Oct 2024 | 24
Oracle settles customer NetSuite dispute out of court Allegations of fraud and unfair business practices dismissed after private mediation Databases30 Sep 2024 | 3
Cockroach Labs CEO: Diverse database models are essential as app demands surge Interview Licensing mixes also needed lest vendors give too much away Databases27 Sep 2024 |
Data harvesting superapp admits it struggled to wield data – until it built an LLM Engineers at Grab don't need to ask each other questions any more AI + ML27 Sep 2024 | 9
SAP support auto-renewal gotcha: Do nothing now, pay for another year Updated Single digit price hikes suspected for UK and Europe and double digit mooted for everywhere else Databases26 Sep 2024 | 13
Snowflake seeks to raise funds with $2B bond sale Poorly received by investors, the moves comes in a difficult year Databases24 Sep 2024 | 4
Majority of Redis users considering alternatives after less permissive licensing move Valkey leads interest in FOSS alternatives after database slinger tightens terms Databases20 Sep 2024 | 19
Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year Workers forced to manually correct setup that struggles to produce auditable accounts after customizations Databases20 Sep 2024 | 51
ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts Databases19 Sep 2024 | 6
UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes Public Sector18 Sep 2024 | 12
Prosecutors confirm probe into SAP CTO amid allegations of sexual harassment Jürgen Müller agreed to step down from his role at the end of September Databases17 Sep 2024 | 2
Sainsbury's bags a ticket to RISE with SAP, hoping not to trip like Asda UK's second largest retailer set to move ERP to the cloud with AWS, Accenture, and the German software gaint Databases17 Sep 2024 | 5
Snowflake's Unistore still on ice years after announcement Cloud unicorn struggles to make database that can do everything 'margin positive' Databases16 Sep 2024 | 3
RISE with SAP sinking year on year Updated Gartner: ERP giant’s flagship cloud-and-upgrade package falls as a ratio of total sales with support deadline looming Databases16 Sep 2024 | 6
As Oracle's AWS deal completes Big 3 triumvirate, questions remain over licensing Analysis Some users will see the appeal of Big Red stacking its hardware in Amazon's datacenters Databases13 Sep 2024 | 21
Redis justifies open source shift with fresh hardware, LLM cost-saving features Interview CEO argues more restrictive licensing was key to DB refresh, and says team 'expected' the fork Databases12 Sep 2024 | 1
Private equity commits MariaDB takeover transaction Post-IPO chapter ends after SQL biz shed jobs, products in bid to find buyer Databases10 Sep 2024 | 7
Oracle reports rising top line as it hooks up database service to AWS Plus: CTO Larry says Big Red uses hardware 'efficiently' but 'labor sparingly because labor is a security risk' Databases10 Sep 2024 | 4
Cassandra redesigns indexing, storage management for 5.0 release Users warned to get off 3.x releases as support ends Databases10 Sep 2024 |
Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England Exclusive Unless solution found, patients must be allowed to opt out Databases05 Sep 2024 | 60
SAP CTO bows out over 'incident' at company shindig Board member offers apology for 'inappropriate' behavior Databases03 Sep 2024 | 18
MongoDB takes a swing at PostgreSQL after claiming wins against rival Open source competitor is still the most popular database among devs, though Databases30 Aug 2024 | 21
Enterprise SAP users split between on-prem and cloud as migration challenges loom This is despite the German vendor's preferred upgrade path Databases28 Aug 2024 | 7
31.5M invoices, contracts, patient consent forms, and more exposed to the internet Exclusive Unprotected database with 12 years of biz records yanked offline CSO26 Aug 2024 | 28
Snowflake claims Iceberg wins table format wars, and Databricks has just proved it The data analytics vendor's CEO says rival's over $1 billion Tabular acquisition is the 'vindication' Databases22 Aug 2024 | 2
Prior UK government planned £485M four-year budget for Palantir-based healthcare system Exclusive Documents from NHS England meeting reveal scope of politicos spending intent Databases21 Aug 2024 | 22
PostgreSQL in line for DuckDB-shaped boost in analytics arena Microsoft-backed extension aims to address open source database's perceived weaknesses Databases20 Aug 2024 |
City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle Europe's largest local authority canceled expected savings baked into financial plans Databases20 Aug 2024 | 106
CockroachDB scuttles away from open source Core offering Distributed database biz doesn't like bigger customers using the free version of its software Databases19 Aug 2024 | 14
Warren Buffett ditches his near-$1B Snowflake investment Oracle of Omaha's exit follows revenue growth shortfall, CEO switch, and customer data leak Databases16 Aug 2024 | 23
Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage Shut the Front Door! PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15
Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructure Revenue and underlying profit please markets in Q2 as German software giant retains focus on costs Databases23 Jul 2024 | 9
SAP system gives UK tax collector a £750B headache as clock ticks on support Updated For now it's Capgemini to the rescue (again) Databases23 Jul 2024 | 27
Unit4 ends support for research costing tool used to plan the Covid vaccine Exclusive UK university users face migration path following plan to withdraw support for product some build £1M solutions around Databases22 Jul 2024 | 10
Europe's largest council could face £12M manual audit bill after Oracle project disaster Thank goodness for pen and paper. Re-implemented system might not arrive until March 2026, four years after initial roll-out Public Sector18 Jul 2024 | 39
Mega-city's Oracle system won't have effective cash management until 2025 Birmingham, Europe's largest local authority, plans to reimplement software years after it replaced SAP Databases17 Jul 2024 | 25
Latest MySQL release is underwhelming, say some DB experts Updated Oracle's priorities may lie elsewhere but it is unfair to say all innovation can go in community edition, reckons analyst Databases16 Jul 2024 | 13
Cold comfort to teachers who got paid late, but ERP software rollout had 'unrealistic' timeline 18 months late, overbudget... report finds council's SAP ERP rip 'n' replace with Unit4 had hidden complexity Databases16 Jul 2024 | 49
Palantir, Oracle cosy up to offer Karp firm's tech across Big Red's cloud Foundry and AI plaform available in OCI Databases11 Jul 2024 | 2
Transformation chief leaves Asda amid Walmart divorce IT projects After 28 years' service, Mark Simpson departs 'by mutual agreement' Databases09 Jul 2024 | 8
Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose Public Sector08 Jul 2024 | 56
Third time was the charm for SingleStore in the cloud, CEO says Apache Iceberg support makes it a good option for a transactional layer over data lakes, he tells The Register Databases08 Jul 2024 | 2
Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't Opinion Promise of AI features, but Big Blue won't reveal much more about next steps of its highly regarded relational database Databases04 Jul 2024 | 58
What do CTOs hate most about GenAI? Tool changes that break stuff With so many DB vendors to choose from, our vulture claws over the bewildering choices Databases01 Jul 2024 | 4
AI query optimization in IBM's Db2 shows you can teach a tech dinosaur new tricks The database Big Blue doesn't like to talk about gets makeover in November Databases27 Jun 2024 | 41
OneHouse takes $35M to fight for Hudi in table format wars After Databricks snaffled Iceberg-linked Tabular, CEO insists there are more than two horses in this race Databases26 Jun 2024 |
SAP customers warned on hidden risks in the unofficial route to the cloud But RISE with SAP can also be too rigid for some customers, Gartner says Databases25 Jun 2024 | 1
Law firms seek investors' support in Teradata class action Claim analytics and data platform biz misled investors about size of public cloud forecast Databases17 Jun 2024 | 1
Asda IT staff shuffled off to TCS amid messy tech divorce from Walmart Exclusive Infrastructure teams have 'eye on door' as SAP migration enters critical phase Databases17 Jun 2024 | 89
Nearly 20% of running Microsoft SQL Servers have passed end of support Exclusive That beige box running a server is easily forgotten ... until it goes wrong Databases17 Jun 2024 | 68
How Apache Spark lit up the tech world and outshone its big data brethren Interview El Reg queries author Matei Zaharia on a decade of the project Databases14 Jun 2024 |
Early MySQL engineer questions whether Oracle is unintentionally killing off the open source database Preference for proprietary features restricting open source MySQL adoption, says Peter Zaitsev Databases11 Jun 2024 | 48
The Microsoft GA that wasn't: Analyst rips into availability of Copilot in Fabric Torn between keynote and blog: Not all AI coding assistant's features appear available Databases10 Jun 2024 | 4
More than a Joule required to power up enthusiasm for SAP's AI strategy Customers remain cautious about adoption, while analysts warn of unforeseen costs Databases07 Jun 2024 | 3
DuckDB promises greater stability with 1.0 release In-process OLAP database flies the nest Databases05 Jun 2024 |
Databricks' $1B Tabular buy raises questions around table format wars Keeping things neutral will be harder, say critics, as tiny startup acquired Databases05 Jun 2024 | 5
MongoDB loses nearly a quarter of its value after adjusting revenue forecasts Document database company asking sales peeps to target workloads with 'higher growth potential' Databases31 May 2024 | 8
Codd almighty! Has it been half a century of SQL already? Feature The Reg talks to Donald Chamberlin, Michael Stonebraker and more about the legendary language Databases31 May 2024 | 70
Teradata takes plunge into lakehouse waters, but not everyone is convinced We have not changed our minds, the industry has evolved, data warehouse stalwart claims Databases23 May 2024 |
Brit council fumbles Oracle Fusion launch, leaving SAP to die another day More than four years after procurement began, authority has no go-live date Databases23 May 2024 | 46
Private equity offer for MariaDB gets thumbsup from shareholders From SPAC and back as 68% say yes Databases21 May 2024 | 6
Microsoft Power BI users warned over pace of Fabric migration Build Users given less than three months to move to the new platform for some services, analyst points out Databases21 May 2024 | 7
Graph database shows Biden outspends Trump in social media ad war But incumbent is mentioned a lot more in attack material Databases17 May 2024 | 31
Lords of May-hem: Seven signs it is Oracle's year end Feature How to handle sales pressure and licensing 'negotiations' to make sure it plays to your advantage Databases17 May 2024 | 35
Oracle CEO says more tech can help offset tech's worst effects Catz talks up company's feel-good efforts... Just don’t mention the margins Databases13 May 2024 | 20
UK public voice fear over security in NHS data systems NHS England's own survey also reveals suspicions that it would sell data to third parties Databases13 May 2024 | 23
Father of SQL says yes to NoSQL Interview Sometimes your own invention just isn't enough anymore Databases10 May 2024 | 52
Uni staff fall back on Excel to work around mis-coded transactions in Oracle system Updated Two years after going live, the project that left employees unpaid still needs work Databases08 May 2024 | 57
Valve vexation: Boeing's Starliner grounded again Problems with Centaur rocket keeps first crewed flight on terra firma Databases07 May 2024 | 39
Palantir's CEO calls 'woke' a 'central risk to Palantir, America and the world' Oh, and Alex Karp's forecasts disappoint the market after strong revenue growth Databases07 May 2024 | 146
Oracle's database family gets trendy AI makeover Say goodbye to 23c and hello to 23ai Databases04 May 2024 | 11
Qantas app glitch sees boarding passes fly to other accounts Issue now resolved and isn't thought to be the work of criminals CSO01 May 2024 | 8
Lakehouse dam breaks after departure of long-time Teradata CTO Updated Data warehousing giant abandons stance against hybrid analytics Databases01 May 2024 |
Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council's estimates in SAP rip-'n-replace Updated No it's not Birmingham this time. West Sussex County Council ERP replacement price to hit £40M Databases30 Apr 2024 | 85