Progress outbids private equity in offer for MariaDB plc
MySQL sibling saga continues as 40-year-old infrastructure software firm enters the fray
Databases28 Mar 2024 | 3
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PostgreSQL pioneer's latest brainchild promises time travel to dodge ransomware
Michael Stonbraker on the neat side effects of putting an operating system on top of a database
Databases28 Mar 2024 | 23
UK health department republishes £330M Palantir contract with fewer ██████
As Good Law Project considers response, ICO slams failure to comply with FoI request
Databases25 Mar 2024 | 43
DBA made ten years of data disappear with one misplaced parameter
Who, Me? Greybeards thought it was clever, making this an educational experience in more ways than one
Databases25 Mar 2024 | 41
Uncle Sam wants to know how big airlines use passenger data
'Problematic' carriers can look forward to scrutiny, fines, and new rules
Databases22 Mar 2024 | 11
Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB
Updated Exclusive Regulatory body insists it's on 'a journey of improvement'
Databases22 Mar 2024 | 87
Licensing labyrinth for Power Apps and Dynamics 365 must be clarified, warns expert
Rules still unclear for Microsoft users making potentially costly decisions on enterprise applications
Databases21 Mar 2024 | 4
SAP users aren't keen on upping spending right now
Cloud and upgrade conversions remain steady if sluggish, according to ERP spending bellwether DSAG
Databases21 Mar 2024 | 5
Nutanix catapults IP theft sueball at DBaaS startup Tessell
Claims former staff ripped off IP and even did demos for their new company on Nutanix computers
Databases21 Mar 2024 | 1
Voltron Data revs up hyper-speed analytics, leaves Snowflake in the dust
GPU-based system offers high performance off Parquet files
Databases19 Mar 2024 | 7
RISE with SAP plan fails to hit go-live date in West of England council
Updated Delays spark fears of £500K legacy support bill, plans for new financial year
Databases15 Mar 2024 | 11
Oracle investors hear the magic word 'Nvidia' and boom! Buy, buy, buy
Forget the piffle about real world results, let's look at the potential of wundertech
Databases12 Mar 2024 |
Home Office’s shiny immigration system glitches causing delays
Amid reports emerge of technical issues, immigration teams keep 24-year-old legacy system up and running
Public Sector12 Mar 2024 | 25
PlanetScale ends free tier bid, sheds staff in profitability bid
CEO defends decision in difficult tech market
Databases11 Mar 2024 | 1
How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model
Opinion Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not
Databases11 Mar 2024 | 32
'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit
Estimates put audits at $3B revenue for Ellison's company, so go at your own pace, experts recommend
Databases06 Mar 2024 | 58
Class action claims Snowflake is an overhyped sales blizzard
Investors unhappy after 2022 revenue guidance cut
Databases05 Mar 2024 | 2
Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support
Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases
Databases04 Mar 2024 | 2
Ellison-backed med tech startup Project Ronin closes doors
Built on OCI, the cancer-focused analytics company struggled to find sufficient paying customers, one report claimed
Databases04 Mar 2024 | 8
Snowflake share price falls after revenue forecasts dip below expectations
CEO Frank Slootman announces retirement as former data cloud rising star sees value sink
Databases29 Feb 2024 | 8
Oracle Cerner system implementation risks future patient deaths, coroner warns
Doctors voiced concern over lack of Red-Amber-Green rating system, says report
Databases29 Feb 2024 | 12
Lender threatens to sweep MariaDB accounts over private equity bid
Publicity around offer breaches loan agreement, or so SEC filing alleges
Databases23 Feb 2024 | 12
Web archive user's $14k BigQuery bill shock after running queries on 'free' dataset
Researcher makes case for default limits after arriving via Python library
Databases22 Feb 2024 | 38
City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M
As bankrupt local authority slashes services and hikes taxes, consultants enjoy £1k-a-day while system still can't offer auditable accounts
Databases22 Feb 2024 | 125
Oracle faces continued legal battle over alleged NetSuite software misrepresentations
Judge allows fraud case to continue after customer resubmits complaint
Databases21 Feb 2024 | 8
MariaDB receives offer to go private more than year after disastrous IPO
$37.3M bid significantly down from SPAC flotation valued at $672M
Databases20 Feb 2024 | 7
Legal campaigners challenge UK.gov decision to redact NHS-Palantir contract
Federated Data Platform agreement merits pre-action letter from Good Law Project
Databases20 Feb 2024 | 22
City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment
Updated Four years after first approaching market for new system, public body hopes to start working with SI
Databases19 Feb 2024 | 43
Unit4 software's budget bungle leaves schools counting the cost
MP calls on council to ensure education teams can plan their financial futures
Databases13 Feb 2024 | 21
SAP makes last-minute change to replacement of 80-year-old co-founder
After lining up someone to fill Hasso Plattner's seat, German ERP giant finds candidate has 'difference in perspective'
Databases12 Feb 2024 | 5
Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree
Watchdog orders a rethink in time for the next emergency
Public Sector09 Feb 2024 | 152
Oracle database deal in Azure comes with a health warning from licensing experts
Updated Five months after cloud love-in, critics worry about costs of deploying Oracle hardware and DBs in Microsoft’s cloud
Databases05 Feb 2024 | 9
Whether to move off Oracle is the $100M+ question for Europe's largest public body
After car-crash implementation, Birmingham City Council must weigh up options after current problems are fixed
Databases05 Feb 2024 | 68
SAP dangles juicy carrot to pull users on board with cloud-first vision
Limited-time offer may reduce cost of migration by up to 50%
Databases30 Jan 2024 | 2
CockroachDB tempts legacy databases to crawl into the cloud age
Distributed system makes a grab for Oracle, Db2 features
Databases29 Jan 2024 | 5
ServiceNow banks double digit sales gains amid push into enterprise workflow
Beats analyst estimates, talks up genAI and yet share price wobbles briefly
Databases25 Jan 2024 |
€2B SAP restructure program will affect 8,000 roles
Plans announced as profits fall and revenues rise
Databases24 Jan 2024 | 1
Oracle continues GenAI push into enterprise data
Don't leave us for LLM systems in other clouds, says Big Red
Databases23 Jan 2024 |
Asda's delayed SAP migration forces extension to Walmart's backend support contract
Three years after leveraged buyout, $240M ERP plan yet to bear fruit
Databases23 Jan 2024 | 19
SAP reshuffles leadership as cloud crusade continues
New moves follow year where customers complained it broke their trust
Databases10 Jan 2024 | 3
Expert sounds alarm bells over upcoming NHS data platform
Research warns not to make the same mistakes as other electronic patient record systems
Databases05 Jan 2024 | 18
Open source PostgreSQL named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines
Already more than 37 years old, the relational system continues to gain popularity
Databases03 Jan 2024 | 16
Google flaunts concurrency, optimization as cloud rivals overhaul platforms
Feature Details sub-CPU allotments, performant Iceberg tables after Microsoft, Databricks bring market noise
Databases03 Jan 2024 |
NHS England published heavily redacted Palantir contract as festivities began
Health org that previously promised it learned its lesson on transparency will ███, ███, and ███
Databases02 Jan 2024 | 95
Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
Interview Turing Award winner whose research and startups broke ground for five decades, tells The Reg he has more up his sleeve
Databases26 Dec 2023 | 73
HMRC launches £500M procurement for new ERP, though project's already a 'red' risk
Rivals will need to dislodge incumbent SAP in competition for 5-year deal across three departments
Databases19 Dec 2023 | 16
Oracle share price slides as it misses revenue expectations
Still, Ellison talks up cloud margins, says 100 datacenters don't cost more 'to run' than 10
Databases12 Dec 2023 | 14
Health crusaders prep legal challenge over NHS mega contract with Palantir
Updated Groups claim Federated Data Platform requires new legislation to go ahead
Databases01 Dec 2023 | 10
The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more
re:Invent Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most
Databases30 Nov 2023 | 6
SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust
Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA
Databases30 Nov 2023 | 11
IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon
Updated Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though
Databases29 Nov 2023 | 7
Couchbase takes fight to MongoDB with columnar side store upgrade
DBaaS update aimed at customers looking for live analytics on apps
Databases28 Nov 2023 |
Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market
Analysis But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition
Databases27 Nov 2023 | 2
Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears
Award follows £1 deal during pandemic and £60 million in non-competitive contracts
Databases22 Nov 2023 | 35
Microsoft touts mirroring over moving in data warehouse gambit
Ignite Fabric update cuts against the grain, and may have more to do with Databricks partnerships
Databases15 Nov 2023 |
Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue
Building material supplier left without functional ERP can amend claim
Databases08 Nov 2023 | 13
Pharma boffins sharpen hunt for target molecules using graph DB
French pharma firm Servier gets Neo4j to help find relationships in 'messy' data
Databases08 Nov 2023 | 1
SAP jumps on AI-assisted coding wagon, but uses its own ABAP language
The cloud-only move may leave out devs writing for on-prem systems, which still make up the majority
Databases07 Nov 2023 | 2
Splunk sheds 7% of workers amid Cisco's $28B embrace
Have another great quarter? Time to get rid of some staff, then
Databases01 Nov 2023 | 5
MariaDB Foundation CEO claims 'sanity' has returned to MariaDB plc
Exclusive Kaj Arnö mulls cash crisis, de-listing threat, job cuts, and strategy rewrite at MySQL fork vendor
Databases01 Nov 2023 | 21
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