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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
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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
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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 | 4
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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 | 105
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
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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 | 7
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 | 147
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
City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout
Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place
Public Sector25 Apr 2024 | 92
Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod
Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors
Databases24 Apr 2024 | 5
GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims
Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up
Databases23 Apr 2024 | 19
SAP cloud swells its topline, but profits slide
Cloud migration good for margins, CEO says
Databases23 Apr 2024 |
Valkey publishes release candidate and attracts new backer
Open source Redis alternative gathers momentum
Databases18 Apr 2024 | 5
Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout
Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial'
Databases17 Apr 2024 | 47
KPMG bags £8.5M NHS gig as cheerleader for Federated Data Platform rollout
Consultancy tasked with helping local services get on board
Public Sector16 Apr 2024 | 7
North American S/4HANA migrations ramping among SAP users
Skills access still an issue for organizations hoping to beat the 2027 ECC support deadline
Databases15 Apr 2024 | 1
Developers are calling the shots on AI planning, judging by your experience
Reader Poll Results And American CIOs keep a closer eye on the purse strings than European equivalents
AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
Linux Foundation marshals support for open source alternative to Redis
Follows the vendor's decision to overhaul licensing of the popular cache database
Databases03 Apr 2024 | 7
University of Washington's Workday woes leave research grants in limbo
$340M finance upgrade still working out the kinks
Databases28 Mar 2024 | 21
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
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
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