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 | 146
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 | 10
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 |