Delta Lake and Iceberg communities collide – in a good way Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger Databases15 Apr 2025 |
CIO and digi VP to depart UK retail giant Asda as Walmart divorce woes settle Exclusive Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 15
Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type LLM query caching also lands soon Databases10 Apr 2025 | 5
UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 63
Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system 'Full benefit' of replacement will not be realized until old one is shut down, projects watchdog warns Databases04 Apr 2025 | 52
Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout On-Prem01 Apr 2025 | 16
Interest in SAP cloud migration triples in its biz heartland User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org Databases25 Mar 2025 |
Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data Comment 'Don't wait for another pandemic or civil challenge,' says US spy-tech biz Databases25 Mar 2025 | 52
FaunaDB shuts down but hints at open source future Capital costs of creating document-relational serverless database take their toll Databases24 Mar 2025 | 2
Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale Cyber-crime23 Mar 2025 | 28
Big Red, Microsoft roll out Azure database services for more mainstream Oracle users Enterprise Edition to be offered on OCI inside Redmond's cloud Databases20 Mar 2025 | 1
SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform Even looming support deadline isn't tempting ECC users to haul themselves over to S/4HANA, say analysts Databases20 Mar 2025 | 12
Celonis slaps SAP with lawsuit claiming it's gatekeeping customer data Process mining specialist accuses the ERP giant of rigging game with fees, restrictions, and a closed ecosystem Databases17 Mar 2025 | 13
City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillors Databases13 Mar 2025 | 62
MariaDB reboots DBaaS plans with open source at the core Five years after it launched its first database service, the MySQL fork is trying again Databases12 Mar 2025 |
Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live Databases11 Mar 2025 | 61
The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade? Comment Mission-critical app migration, 'if it ain't broke...' and more. All that glitters isn't gold when it comes to biz needs Databases10 Mar 2025 | 91
Oracle outage hits US Federal health records systems Big Red pushes restart button after users locked out of apps across Veterans Affairs hospitals, other govt departments Databases07 Mar 2025 | 16
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 shuffles out of mainstream support The fate of Skype is sad, but the clock is ticking for enterprises Databases04 Mar 2025 | 4
Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal Criminal probe understood to have ended following settlement over 'inconsiderate' behavior Databases03 Mar 2025 | 22
Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program Updated Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?
4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked
Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter World War Fee So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago
CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home Uncertainty is the new certainty
AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair
Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips World War Fee There's a new tariff in town
Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in
Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops World war fee Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically
White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo World War Fee Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President
Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz 800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain
FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license Updated Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia Databases27 Feb 2025 | 78
IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio Databases25 Feb 2025 | 1
Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances Databases25 Feb 2025 | 114
Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs Uncle Sam's number-crunchers warn lawyers, customer service reps to brace for change, say techies will be fine Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11
Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics Databases21 Feb 2025 | 24
DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project Updated Systems integrator secured 'variation' just before mega SAP migration put on hold Databases20 Feb 2025 | 43
Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making it 'longest strategic release' Meanwhile, on-prem version of 23ai remains uncertain Databases18 Feb 2025 | 3
UK electrical utility seeks partner for £81M SAP overhaul as support deadline closes in Integrations with third-party software await chosen provider Databases18 Feb 2025 | 11
Bank of England Oracle Cloud bill balloons – but when you print money, who's counting? Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to pay millions for 'amended implementation methodology' Databases17 Feb 2025 | 26
Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU DevOps team did the dirty on a database Disaster Recovery Week17 Feb 2025 | 7
Analysts welcome ACID transactions on real-time distributed Aerospike The little database company with big users gaining fans as it adds consistency to speed and scale Databases13 Feb 2025 | 3
SAP snared in revenue trap unless it extends legacy ERP support User can still push for perpetual licenses despite vendor's craving for subscription deals Databases13 Feb 2025 | 7
Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP Users' sluggish migration of critical apps mean current deadline not workable, says analyst Databases12 Feb 2025 | 21
Oracle makes Fusion apps available on EU Sovereign Cloud GDPR-compliant service pitched for public sector orgs who can't pipe data offsite PaaS + IaaS11 Feb 2025 | 3
Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions to muscle in on NoSQL Analysis But will it set a real standard for MongoDB alternatives? Databases11 Feb 2025 | 12
Veterans Affairs reboots Oracle health records project for $330M Concerns around unfixed problems remain after system resulted in harm to some 150 patients Databases06 Feb 2025 | 12
Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority,' says CEO Um, does anyone wanna switch seats? Applications04 Feb 2025 | 62
Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays Third-party software sticking plaster expected six months late Databases03 Feb 2025 | 39
Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek Oh someone's in DeepShi... CSO30 Jan 2025 | 71
Oracle finance system at Europe's largest city council still falls short 2.5 years later Auditors find solution design 'was not fully resolved' when it went live in 2022 Databases29 Jan 2025 | 22
Microsoft builds open source document database on PostgreSQL, suggests FerretDB as front end We're not in Kansas anymore Databases27 Jan 2025 | 23
UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project West Sussex helplessly watches price tag go from £2.6M to 'oh my God' Databases27 Jan 2025 | 140
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format Databases20 Jan 2025 |
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences Databases15 Jan 2025 | 10
Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares 38-year veteran Edward Screven led technology and architecture decisions since Sun merger Databases14 Jan 2025 | 5
Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist Who, Me? Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous Databases13 Jan 2025 | 65
Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error Hastings has a mystery to solve – how did all those customers get offered refunds? Databases10 Jan 2025 | 45
Stumbling ERP project racks up sales losses greater than budget South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements Databases03 Jan 2025 | 7
It's been 20 years since Oracle bought two software rivals, changing the market forever Feature After lawsuits and poison pills, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards failed to resist the lure of Larry's ambition Databases02 Jan 2025 | 20
AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform Analysis But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines Databases02 Jan 2025 |
Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did Opinion 2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor Bootnotes01 Jan 2025 | 116
London's Met Police seeks business services, ERP refresh in £370M deal Contract could be worth a cool £1 billion if associated organizations join Databases17 Dec 2024 | 9
AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them Off-Prem17 Dec 2024 | 20
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 | 15
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 | 11
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 | 4
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