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Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman

OpenAI CEO enjoys speculative love-in with Snowflake boss as critics worry over what 1,000X compute would do to the planet

AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 29

Industry reacts to DuckDB's radical rethink of Lakehouse architecture

Excitement over DuckLake, but momentum is with Iceberg as players at AWS, Snowflake weigh in

Databases05 Jun 2025 | 5

Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k +

Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself

Cyber-crime28 May 2025 | 2

DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS

Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more

Databases28 May 2025 |

Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system

SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems

Databases23 May 2025 | 4

One of Britain's largest health trusts says 'no ta' to Palantir-run data platform – for now

Care board defers decision to adopt national system

Databases23 May 2025 | 7

SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels

Vendor's AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs

Databases22 May 2025 | 5

Greater Manchester says its NHS analytics stack is years ahead of Palantir wares

Care board draws red lines over use of UK government-backed Federated Data Platform

Databases21 May 2025 | 54

Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'

After UK spends hundreds of millions, several say existing systems are better

Databases16 May 2025 | 29

A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis

Interview Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changes

Databases15 May 2025 | 1

Tech suppliers asked to support single electronic health record across England

Labour health secretary’s vision for one record to rule 'em all, for each patient, set to come to market

Databases13 May 2025 | 53

Users find RISE with SAP service levels below industry standard

Gartner also says customers say ERP vendor's internal processes cause delays

Databases08 May 2025 | 4

NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs

It's not rocket science, it's budgeting

Databases07 May 2025 | 6

Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning

Data giant backs federal austerity push, saying it's 'the right thing' for US

Databases06 May 2025 | 33

30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world

From ubiquitous go-to system for early Noughties startups to a legacy like no other

Databases06 May 2025 | 46

Redis 'returns' to open source with AGPL license

New plan may remain too restrictive for some developers

Databases01 May 2025 | 38

Only 3,000 staff jump from SAP after 10,000 earmarked to be pushed

CFO says 'a cushion of several thousand employees we can play with' is a good thing in uncertain times

Databases23 Apr 2025 | 17

ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations

Only Peter Thiel-backed biz can pull off $30M IT deal, apparently

Public Sector21 Apr 2025 | 69

Developer scored huge own goal by deleting almost every football fan in Europe

Who, Me? Fiddling with the production database – what could possibly go wrong?

Databases21 Apr 2025 | 71

Delta Lake and Iceberg communities collide – in a good way

Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger

Databases15 Apr 2025 |

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Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles

Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away

Techie traced cables from basement to maternity ward and onto a roof, before a car crash revealed the problem

On Call Doctor? Why does this hospital network run in such strange places?

Fresh strain of pro-Russian wiper flushes Ukrainian critical infrastructure

Destructive malware has been a hallmark of Putin's multi-modal war

Your ransomware nightmare just came true – now what?

Feature Don't negotiate unless you must, and if so, drag it out as long as you can

Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress

DOGE moves fast and breaks things, and now our data is at risk, security guru warns in hearing

Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in ongoing WordPress scuffle

FAIR Package Manager project aims to prevent political power plays

Just 15 buyers are in charge of £14B in UK central government tech spending

Concerns over lack of commercial expertise with big tech suppliers as country implements digital 'Blueprint'

Musk and Trump take slap fight public as bromance ends

They're fighting like cats and DOGEs

Uncle Sam moves to seize $7.7M laundered by North Korean IT worker ring

The cash has been frozen for more than two years

ChatGPT used for evil: Fake IT worker resumes, misinfo, and cyber-op assist

OpenAI boots accounts linked to 10 malicious campaigns

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CIO and digi VP to depart UK retail giant Asda as Walmart divorce woes settle

Exclusive Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion

On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 16

Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type

LLM query caching also lands soon

Databases10 Apr 2025 | 6

UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers

Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 63

Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system

'Full benefit' of replacement will not be realized until old one is shut down, projects watchdog warns

Databases04 Apr 2025 | 52

Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount

Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout

On-Prem01 Apr 2025 | 16

Interest in SAP cloud migration triples in its biz heartland

User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org

Databases25 Mar 2025 |

Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data

Comment 'Don't wait for another pandemic or civil challenge,' says US spy-tech biz

Databases25 Mar 2025 | 52

FaunaDB shuts down but hints at open source future

Capital costs of creating document-relational serverless database take their toll

Databases24 Mar 2025 | 2

Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data

Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale

Cyber-crime23 Mar 2025 | 29

Big Red, Microsoft roll out Azure database services for more mainstream Oracle users

Enterprise Edition to be offered on OCI inside Redmond's cloud

Databases20 Mar 2025 | 1

SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform

Even looming support deadline isn't tempting ECC users to haul themselves over to S/4HANA, say analysts

Databases20 Mar 2025 | 12

Celonis slaps SAP with lawsuit claiming it's gatekeeping customer data

Process mining specialist accuses the ERP giant of rigging game with fees, restrictions, and a closed ecosystem

Databases17 Mar 2025 | 13

City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster

Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillors

Databases13 Mar 2025 | 62

MariaDB reboots DBaaS plans with open source at the core

Five years after it launched its first database service, the MySQL fork is trying again

Databases12 Mar 2025 |

Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months

It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live

Databases11 Mar 2025 | 61

The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?

Comment Mission-critical app migration, 'if it ain't broke...' and more. All that glitters isn't gold when it comes to biz needs

Databases10 Mar 2025 | 91

Oracle outage hits US Federal health records systems

Big Red pushes restart button after users locked out of apps across Veterans Affairs hospitals, other govt departments

Databases07 Mar 2025 | 16

Microsoft SQL Server 2019 shuffles out of mainstream support

The fate of Skype is sad, but the clock is ticking for enterprises

Databases04 Mar 2025 | 4

Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal

Criminal probe understood to have ended following settlement over 'inconsiderate' behavior

Databases03 Mar 2025 | 22

FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license

Updated Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia

Databases27 Feb 2025 | 78

IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax

Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio

Databases25 Feb 2025 | 1

Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances

Databases25 Feb 2025 | 114

Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs

Uncle Sam's number-crunchers warn lawyers, customer service reps to brace for change, say techies will be fine

Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11

Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say

After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics

Databases21 Feb 2025 | 24

DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project

Updated Systems integrator secured 'variation' just before mega SAP migration put on hold

Databases20 Feb 2025 | 43

Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making it 'longest strategic release'

Meanwhile, on-prem version of 23ai remains uncertain

Databases18 Feb 2025 | 3

UK electrical utility seeks partner for £81M SAP overhaul as support deadline closes in

Integrations with third-party software await chosen provider

Databases18 Feb 2025 | 11

Bank of England Oracle Cloud bill balloons – but when you print money, who's counting?

Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to pay millions for 'amended implementation methodology'

Databases17 Feb 2025 | 26

Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU

DevOps team did the dirty on a database

Disaster Recovery Week17 Feb 2025 | 7

Analysts welcome ACID transactions on real-time distributed Aerospike

The little database company with big users gaining fans as it adds consistency to speed and scale

Databases13 Feb 2025 | 3

SAP snared in revenue trap unless it extends legacy ERP support

User can still push for perpetual licenses despite vendor's craving for subscription deals

Databases13 Feb 2025 | 7

Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP

Users' sluggish migration of critical apps mean current deadline not workable, says analyst

Databases12 Feb 2025 | 21

Oracle makes Fusion apps available on EU Sovereign Cloud

GDPR-compliant service pitched for public sector orgs who can't pipe data offsite

PaaS + IaaS11 Feb 2025 | 3

Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions to muscle in on NoSQL

Analysis But will it set a real standard for MongoDB alternatives?

Databases11 Feb 2025 | 12

Veterans Affairs reboots Oracle health records project for $330M

Concerns around unfixed problems remain after system resulted in harm to some 150 patients

Databases06 Feb 2025 | 12

Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority,' says CEO

Um, does anyone wanna switch seats?

Applications04 Feb 2025 | 62

Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays

Third-party software sticking plaster expected six months late

Databases03 Feb 2025 | 39

Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek

Oh someone's in DeepShi...

CSO30 Jan 2025 | 71

Oracle finance system at Europe's largest city council still falls short 2.5 years later

Auditors find solution design 'was not fully resolved' when it went live in 2022

Databases29 Jan 2025 | 22

Microsoft builds open source document database on PostgreSQL, suggests FerretDB as front end

We're not in Kansas anymore

Databases27 Jan 2025 | 23

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

West Sussex helplessly watches price tag go from £2.6M to 'oh my God'

Databases27 Jan 2025 | 140

AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise

Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format

Databases20 Jan 2025 |

Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds

Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences

Databases15 Jan 2025 | 10

Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares

38-year veteran Edward Screven led technology and architecture decisions since Sun merger

Databases14 Jan 2025 | 5

Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist

Who, Me? Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous

Databases13 Jan 2025 | 65

Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error

Hastings has a mystery to solve – how did all those customers get offered refunds?

Databases10 Jan 2025 | 45

Stumbling ERP project racks up sales losses greater than budget

South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements

Databases03 Jan 2025 | 7

It's been 20 years since Oracle bought two software rivals, changing the market forever

Feature After lawsuits and poison pills, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards failed to resist the lure of Larry's ambition

Databases02 Jan 2025 | 20

AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform

Analysis But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines

Databases02 Jan 2025 |

Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did

Opinion 2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor

Bootnotes01 Jan 2025 | 116

London's Met Police seeks business services, ERP refresh in £370M deal

Contract could be worth a cool £1 billion if associated organizations join

Databases17 Dec 2024 | 9

AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB

Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them

Off-Prem17 Dec 2024 | 20

Oracle gets Big Red reality check after financials fail to impress

Strong year ends with a dip, but Ellison signs Meta deal to boost AI cred

Databases10 Dec 2024 | 4

SAP says GenAI will help solve legacy migration skills shortage

As 2027 support deadline looms, German vendor puts faith in on-trend tech to help SIs do more with less

Databases10 Dec 2024 | 15

Foursquare to close, but Swarm game will live on

And the company is doing the right thing with its database

Databases27 Nov 2024 | 7

UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in

Updated Meanwhile, budget clambered from £2.6M to nearly £40M, says report

Databases26 Nov 2024 | 54

Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service

Ignite Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet

Databases19 Nov 2024 | 6

Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI

Ignite Better locking, improved query optimization, and... Copilot

Databases19 Nov 2024 | 5

UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud

SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries

Databases18 Nov 2024 |

Microsoft Power Pages misconfigurations exposing sensitive data

NHS supplier that leaked employee info fell victim to fiddly access controls that can leave databases dangling online

Security15 Nov 2024 | 6

Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data

Cortex-powered front end for easier access to insights across multiple sources

Databases13 Nov 2024 |

Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever

Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation

Databases08 Nov 2024 | 73

Single-platform approach may fall short for AI data management

Data platform vendors can't meet all your needs, warns Gartner

Databases07 Nov 2024 | 3

Users struggle with recipe when moving enterprise apps to the cloud

From meatballs and spaghetti to lasagna – same ingredients, different structure, says analyst

Databases05 Nov 2024 | 8

NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords

As another government yet again seeks to reform UK GDPR, legislators say data must continue to flow

Public Sector23 Oct 2024 | 189

OpenAI's rapid growth loaded with 'corner case' challenges, says Fivetran CEO

Interview GenAI poster child is a 100-story-tall baby with simple infrastructure but extreme demands

Databases23 Oct 2024 |

Clock's ticking on PostgreSQL 12, but not everyone is ready to say goodbye

11% of databases still on aging version with a month of support left

Databases22 Oct 2024 | 11

UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project

Gloucestershire continues with legacy system as SaaS replacement delayed by more than a year

Databases21 Oct 2024 | 13

Someone's finally taking on £10M Hull City Council ERP deal to replace Oracle

Step forward Workday after mega long procurement to support system that went live 22 years ago

Databases18 Oct 2024 | 23

Inexorable march of progress at SAP threatens to leave users behind

AI hardly a hot topic with some customers calling for more innovation on-prem

Databases16 Oct 2024 | 4

NHS England warned about plans to extend Covid-era rules for patient data access

Governance and public consultation need work before rule change goes ahead

Databases16 Oct 2024 | 9

Big data vendors introduce Apache Iceberg features in same week

Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way

Databases14 Oct 2024 | 4

Get more licenses for less with SAP price tiering, advise experts

German ERP vendor entices users to cloud, but be aware of how the system works, ITAM experts warn

Databases14 Oct 2024 | 4

Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models

Exclusive Tamed DB sprawl and saved cloudy resources with 'X-Stor'

Databases11 Oct 2024 | 8

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

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

Oracle settles customer NetSuite dispute out of court

Allegations of fraud and unfair business practices dismissed after private mediation

Databases30 Sep 2024 | 3

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