Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide
Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.”
PaaS + IaaS18 Dec 2025 | 10
Databases
Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030
Exclusive Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline looms
Databases11 Dec 2025 | 17
Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors
But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming
Databases11 Dec 2025 | 15
SAP users in the dark about vendor's plan for data analytics
February product launch fails to register, with concerns remaining about integration
Databases09 Dec 2025 |
DJ Garman drops the ball instead of the bass in AWS re:Invent keynote
But the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for
AWS Re:invent08 Dec 2025 | 3
IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse
Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates
Databases08 Dec 2025 | 5
IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions
Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka
AI + ML08 Dec 2025 | 18
Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours
On Call Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security
Applications05 Dec 2025 | 108
UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze
Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle
Databases04 Dec 2025 | 8
University of Pennsylvania joins list of victims from Clop's Oracle EBS raid
Ivy League school warns more than 1,400 people after attackers siphon data via zero-day
Cyber-crime02 Dec 2025 | 1
MongoDB talks up its AI chops by talking down PostgreSQL
CEO touts win from 'super-high growth' customer that couldn't scale on rival system
Databases02 Dec 2025 | 12
Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival
Overbudget Project Future will continue to cause problems into Q2 next year, chairman admits
On-Prem01 Dec 2025 | 29
Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul
Updated Authority follows Birmingham and West Sussex, which both suffered disastrous transitions
Databases01 Dec 2025 | 62
Employee trust in SAP board dips amid ongoing restructure
German mega vendor responds to latest in-house survey
Databases25 Nov 2025 | 5
Clop's Oracle EBS rampage reaches Dartmouth College
Uni notifies 1,400-plus Maine residents as zero-day fallout continues
Cyber-crime25 Nov 2025 |
Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform
Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population
Databases20 Nov 2025 | 38
Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals
Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says
Databases19 Nov 2025 | 8
SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script
B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain
Databases19 Nov 2025 | 10
Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query
Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix
Databases19 Nov 2025 | 83
Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform
Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage
Databases17 Nov 2025 | 18
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Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Exclusive Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution
China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET
Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace'
Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful
Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.
Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide
Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.”
Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths
Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn’t escalate their concerns
pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree
Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen
Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin
Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date
Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits
Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health
Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs
Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTail
Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit
Flaw in remote-access appliance lets attackers chain bugs for root-level takeover
STORIES
ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared
Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure
Databases13 Nov 2025 | 28
Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan
'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO
Databases12 Nov 2025 | 50
Hitachi-owned GlobalLogic admits data stolen on 10k current and former staff
Clop's Oracle EBS exploit spree shows no sign of slowing, claims nearly 30 more casualties in media, finance, and tech.
Cyber-crime11 Nov 2025 | 1
Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP
S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change
Databases05 Nov 2025 | 7
Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions
Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI
Databases05 Nov 2025 |
‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’
Who, Me? One SQL slip-up is survivable. Not learning from the first mess meant change
Databases03 Nov 2025 | 78
The clock's ticking for MySQL 8.0 as end of life looms
Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026
Databases31 Oct 2025 | 11
EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long
The Big Four biz’s big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online
Security29 Oct 2025 | 55
Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection
Poor data standards across government hamper scaling, says Parliament spending watchdog
Public Sector27 Oct 2025 | 40
SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs
Share price dips as cloud sales outlook disappoints amid slow US public sector bookings
Databases23 Oct 2025 | 5
Carnegie Mellon team claims vector-based system can turbocharge PostgreSQL
Researchers say 'Proto-X' fine-tunes databases automatically, delivering multifold performance boosts
Databases22 Oct 2025 | 6
UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach
ICO says probe unnecessary after reviewing ministry's handling of leak
Security22 Oct 2025 | 31
Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit
NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype
PaaS + IaaS17 Oct 2025 | 3
SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA
A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade
Databases17 Oct 2025 | 23
Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers
Comment Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 36
Lance takes aim at Parquet in file format joust
Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads
Databases14 Oct 2025 |
Unwary SAP private cloud users face 10% renewal hikes, warns Gartner
On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing
Databases14 Oct 2025 |
Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again
Sellafield considers using legacy ECC software beyond extended 2030 cut-off
Applications13 Oct 2025 | 9
Clearview AI sees red as UK tribunal sides with regulator over $10M GDPR fine
Court says ICO can chase US outfit for unlawfully hoovering up Brits' selfies
Databases09 Oct 2025 | 16
AI devs close to scraping bottom of data barrel
Analysts at Goldman Sachs Global Institute say training is starting to hit its limits, enterprise info troves may be last hope
AI + ML03 Oct 2025 | 51
How the ONS data-sharing dream ended in budget cuts and three rival platforms
Analysis UK Treasury called time on troubled integration scheme after £240M sunk
Public Sector03 Oct 2025 | 7
Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast
On Call Cool kids drank the aggressive micro-management Kool-Aid
Databases03 Oct 2025 | 115
Blockchain just became an utterly mainstream part of the global financial system
SWIFT and 30 banks promise to bake it into international payment infrastructure
Software01 Oct 2025 | 30
Fork yeah: Valkey 9 sharpens edge against Redis
Open source database adds multi-tenant clustering, safer shutdowns, and eyes life beyond caching
Databases29 Sep 2025 |
Google fuses SQL, Python, and Spark in Colab Enterprise push
Move comes as Snowflake and Databricks chase the same all-in-one analytics dream
Databases26 Sep 2025 | 4
SAP's 'simplified' licensing leaves users more confused
Business Suite nostalgia unlikely to ease customers' public cloud journey
SaaS25 Sep 2025 | 2
Check your own databases before asking to see our passport photos, Home Office tells UK cops
Guidance follows privacy complaints over sharp increase in police searches of travel doc and visa pic libraries
Databases25 Sep 2025 | 18
Europe's largest city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more
System meant to go live in 2021 costing £20M awaits reimplementation with new £170M price tag
Databases24 Sep 2025 | 80
UK.gov ditching 'Red' risk data sharing project after slashing £0.5B budget in half
Meanwhile Lotus Notes still lurks in some Office of National Statistics systems, for now
Public Sector23 Sep 2025 | 5
EV charging biz zaps customers with data leak scare
Names, emails unplugged in DCS support snafu – but 'billing is safe'
Security23 Sep 2025 | 8
Moody's raises Big Red flag over Oracle's AI datacenter buildout blueprint
Ratings agency points out there's a risk of relying on a small number of buyers
AI + ML22 Sep 2025 | 6
'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service'
Project rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls
Databases22 Sep 2025 | 8
Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact
Arrangement follows big tech tie-ins claiming to offer £31B investment
Public Sector20 Sep 2025 | 70
User group says SAP's licensing models make cloud migration harder
Updated DSAG criticizes separate regimes for public, private cloud, says users need more time to upgrade in uncertain times
Databases19 Sep 2025 | 2
Microsoft weaves Oracle and BigQuery data mirroring into Fabric platform
And knits a graph DB out of LinkedIn cast-offs
Databases18 Sep 2025 | 1
Whitehall lobs £40M at 'critical' phase of police DB reboot
Officials say there's no time to switch suppliers if they want the PNC off life support before March 2026
Public Sector17 Sep 2025 | 12
Even fantasy money can buy a lot of power – just ask Larry Ellison
Opinion As doubts grow over who will pay to stuff Oracle's cloud pipeline, the octogenarian spreads his wings
AI + ML15 Sep 2025 | 32
Monty Widenius 'heartbroken' at the extent of Oracle's MySQL job cuts
Original author of open source database 'not surprised' but 'saddened' as critics slam vendor's layoffs
Databases11 Sep 2025 | 4
Neo4j's 'property sharding' promises to overcome scalability struggle
Graph database fave also punts for transactional workloads
Databases11 Sep 2025 | 4
Just because you can render a Doom-like in SQL doesn't mean you should
CedarDB pushed to the limit in improbable gaming experiment
Databases11 Sep 2025 | 11
Oracle boasts $455B backlog from AI boom, but not all its new friends will live to pay up
Comment With extinction event predicted, Big Red's four-year forecasts will have to meet reality
AI + ML10 Sep 2025 | 10
Johnson, Cummings met Thiel months before Palantir won NHS pandemic role
Meeting with former UK prime minister and his chief advisor withheld from official records, according to leaked documents
Databases10 Sep 2025 | 56
Mega-and-MAGA deals position Oracle's Larry Ellison to overtake Elon
Big Red's profits are flat, but its order book is phat
Databases10 Sep 2025 | 22
Microsoft hits pause on Copilot ... in SQL Server Management Studio
Only a temporary reprieve until GitHub Copilot integration is up and running
AI + ML08 Sep 2025 | 6
Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models
Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb
AI + ML05 Sep 2025 | 6
PostgreSQL 18 eyes analytics boost and distributed future
Async I/O and UUID v7 highlights of the September release, though some SQL features are delayed
Databases04 Sep 2025 | 1
SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push
German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoric
PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2025 | 13
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector
Register debate series As government says £9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking
Public Sector02 Sep 2025 | 86
What a difference 2 years makes: MariaDB buys back SkySQL
Bringing DBaaS back on board in face off with Oracle
Databases27 Aug 2025 | 1
Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB
PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license
Databases25 Aug 2025 | 7
Minority Report: Now with more spreadsheets and guesswork
Precogs replaced by profiling and postcode data... and 'AI'. What could wrong? Lots, say privacy campaigners
Databases16 Aug 2025 | 71
Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide
Register debate series As £9 billion MoU sparks debate about value for money, it's time to have your say
Public Sector15 Aug 2025 | 128
The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft?
Register debate series Are UK taxpayers getting real value from SPA24 — or just high cost convenience?
Public Sector14 Aug 2025 | 60
Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version
Meanwhile, the clock's ticking for the previous FOSS Redis
Databases14 Aug 2025 | 18
Microsoft wares may be UK public sector's only viable option
Register debate series For now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be
Public Sector13 Aug 2025 | 82
Sopra Steria bags £115 million legacy extension from UK pensions department after delays to replacement ERP project
New SaaS system awaits a 'fully costed and deliverable integrated plan' before it can support 280,000 employees
Databases08 Aug 2025 | 2
Snowflake builds Spark clients for its own analytics engine
No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims
Storage07 Aug 2025 |
Birmingham City Council's £131M Oracle rebuild in danger as go-live nears
Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch
Databases06 Aug 2025 | 49
Oracle offers workaround to Windows boot issue in the cloud instead of fix
Kludge causing production outages
Cloud Infrastructure Month01 Aug 2025 | 6
SAP warns of 'extended approvals' for spending in manufacturing, US public sector
Vendor sees 'slight deceleration' in cloud backlog as it offers mixed results
Applications23 Jul 2025 | 1
NatWest banks on AWS and Accenture for AI-driven customer overhaul
Deal adds to a string of relationships based on improving data and analytics
Databases23 Jul 2025 | 8
Customers fret about downtime with hyperscalers' PostgreSQL services
Analysis Smaller vendors offering alternatives cash in concerns
Databases22 Jul 2025 |
Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore
AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things
AI + ML21 Jul 2025 | 144
Rimini Street, Oracle edge toward truce after years of legal warfare
Hush-hush settlement follows decision to wind down PeopleSoft support
Databases11 Jul 2025 | 1
Users of PostgreSQL in the cloud say the uptime just ain't up to it
One in five users hit by service failures in the last year, research finds
Databases11 Jul 2025 | 11
More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn
Intro of package for cloud ERP is creating challenges, and more changes likely next year
Databases11 Jul 2025 | 5
Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform
Controversial system requires local NHS investment to maximize productivity
Databases10 Jul 2025 | 30
Feds brag about hefty Oracle discount – licensing experts smell a lock-in
If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is
Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Jul 2025 | 12
Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill
Asia In Brief PLUS: Lexmark’s Chinese owners sell to Xerox; India, Australia, target underwater drones; JPMorgan drops custom TLDs; and more!
Databases07 Jul 2025 | 26
Alibaba Cloud reveals DB cluster manager it says can beat rival hyperscalers
‘Eigen+’ finds instances likely to cause out of memory errors and makes sure they can’t do damage
Cloud Infrastructure Month03 Jul 2025 | 1
Coming to PostgreSQL: On-disk database encryption
Open source initiative aims to offer enterprise security feature without vendor lock-in
Databases02 Jul 2025 | 19
Oracle just signed one mystery customer that will double its cloud revenue in 2028
Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration
Databases01 Jul 2025 | 5
Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7 million after revising data strategy
Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy
Public Sector25 Jun 2025 | 4
Anthropic won't fix a bug in its SQLite MCP server
Fork that - 5k+ times
AI + ML25 Jun 2025 | 17
Private equity types to snap up NoSQL biz Couchbase
$1.5 billion offered for database company valued at $1.2 billion four years ago
Databases23 Jun 2025 | 3
EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons
DataFusion and WarehousePG meant to deal with AI-related workloads, not to compete with analytics data platforms
Databases20 Jun 2025 |
Voltron Data throws its weight behind AMD for GPU-accelerated SQL
Exclusive In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for
Databases18 Jun 2025 | 7
ScyllaDB paddles toward scale and profit with Raft-powered upgrade
Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm
Databases18 Jun 2025 | 4
UK MoD pauses £92M Oracle Fusion contract amid project governance review
Last of Whitehall-wide ERP overhaul will not kick off until next year
Databases17 Jun 2025 | 5
Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person
Oracle’s 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spot
Databases13 Jun 2025 | 42
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