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
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 |
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
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
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 | 18
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 Kubernetes 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 |