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 | 4
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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 | 17
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
Sponsored Feature 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
Database times they are a changing
OVHcloud maintains and manages your open source DBaaS so you don’t have to
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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 |
Take the Oracle FUDbuster test
Why Oracle's RDBMS is for every cloud, despite what its salespeople might say
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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
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Rackspace customers rage as email outage continues and migrations create migraines
Hosting company has nothing to say on data loss, restore times, or root cause
Programming error created billion-dollar mistake that made the coder ... a hero?
who, me? No crypto needed, just a project with a tough deadline that nobody minded missing
Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest
Microsoft releases out of box experience update to simplify and speed up migrations
Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues
High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans
A brand new Linux DRM display driver – for a 1992 computer
Feature 680x0: the CPU architecture that just will not die
Tech contractor who uses an umbrella company? UK tax is coming after them
Britain's wallet-checkers suspect VAT avoidance from some of them – to the tune of 10,000-case tribunal backlog
Quantum computing is a different kind of computing, says AWS
RE:INVENT The intersection of computer science and physics
Killing trees with lasers isn’t cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better?
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Linux 6.1 gets an eighth release candidate and Linus Torvalds is OK with that
Kernel devs offer emperor penguin early gifts of code for version 6.2
Gunfire at electrical grid kills power for 45,000 in North Carolina
You don't have to be a coder to cut off the juice when blunt tools are around
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How serverless is transforming graph databases
Amazon Neptune expands serverless to deliver instant workload scaling
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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
Flexible document model is secret noSQL sauce
AWS takes Amazon DocumentDB enterprise-ready capabilities to the next level
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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 | 12
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
Solving the problem of disaster recovery and performance at a global scale
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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 | 16
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
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 | 29
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
SAP users struggling with data management for S/4HANA migration
UK and Ireland survey reveals difficulties with housekeeping
Databases30 Mar 2022 | 8
PlanetScale offers undo button to reverse schema migration without losing data
Vitess-based database splits system for 30 minutes allowing users to right regrettable changes
Databases24 Mar 2022 | 3
RISE with SAP struggles to gain purchase with German-speaking users
Investment sentiment for S/4HANA drops off while public cloud hosting only two per cent of environments
Databases24 Mar 2022 | 1
SAP wins competition to replace own ageing system at UK council
£7m Gloucestershire County Council deal the first for RISE with SAP in the UK public sector
Databases22 Mar 2022 | 7
Verified asset management tools help speed Oracle audits
Too bad they don't help customers achieve a position on compliance
Databases21 Mar 2022 | 1
Northwest England councils in £31m SaaS HR system tender
Procurement comes as Manchester City Council looks for SAP next steps
Databases18 Mar 2022 | 5
Openness of Oracle licensing and audit tools questioned
Verified third-party tools do not guarantee compliance position
Databases17 Mar 2022 | 34
IBM Cloudant pulls plan to fund new foundational layer for CouchDB
Apache project mulls options for next big upgrade as Big Blue focuses on 3.x iterations
Databases15 Mar 2022 |
MongoDB to terminate Russian SaaS accounts
No service for NoSQL users contrasts with continuous clouds from other players
Databases15 Mar 2022 | 11
Oracle sees automation opportunity in healthcare following pandemic
Doctor Ellison says big wins in the sector influenced decision to buy health records outfit Cerner
Databases11 Mar 2022 | 5
UK Home Office dangles £20m for national gun licence database system
But potential bidders will have to move fast on this one
Databases11 Mar 2022 | 99
DataStax updates K8ssandra to help Cassandra operate worldwide
Shares multi-cluster lessons from DBaaS in Kubernetes project
Databases08 Mar 2022 |
DBAs massively over-provision Oracle to protect themselves: Microsoft
Cloud migrations can therefore be cost-effective, even with Big Red’s nasty licenses
Databases07 Mar 2022 | 33
Desperately seeking SaaS: English council to replace Oracle R12
Big Red product to become more unstable, unreliable, and less secure after 20 years' use
Databases01 Mar 2022 | 9
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