MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry
But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source
Databases09 Mar 2026 | 6
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UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone
Opinion Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers
Databases09 Mar 2026 | 8
UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding
It promised £1.15B… but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog says
Databases06 Mar 2026 | 14
Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low'
Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement
Databases04 Mar 2026 | 28
SAP writes $480M check to finally end IP legal spat with Teradata
A joint venture from 2008 led to years of claims and counter-claims between the data whizzkids
Databases02 Mar 2026 | 1
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download
Opinion Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
Databases28 Feb 2026 | 96
Sopra Steria sues UK government over £958M Capita outsourcing award
French firm claims DWP failed to identify rival's bid was 'abnormally low' and alleges govt breached procurement rules
Public Sector27 Feb 2026 | 39
Mondelēz picks Celonis as process backbone for SAP overhaul
Snack giant opts for vendor-neutral process mining as it shifts from ECC to S/4HANA
Databases27 Feb 2026 | 1
Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed
Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption
Databases20 Feb 2026 | 19
Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL
Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation
Databases17 Feb 2026 | 12
Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks
Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset
Databases16 Feb 2026 | 30
UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat
West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates
Databases06 Feb 2026 | 53
Most SAP migrations bust budgets and project timelines, research finds
As 2027 ECC support cliff looms, half choose not to re-engineer processes in critical ERP upgrade
Databases05 Feb 2026 | 8
UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog
37 court applications shifted off failing kit, though some are camping in a temporary hosting facility
On-Prem05 Feb 2026 | 37
Snowflake plugs PostgreSQL into its AI Data Cloud
Yes, it already had Unistore
Databases03 Feb 2026 | 2
Oracle's first general on-prem release of its .ai database iteration draws skeptics
Users happy with 19c as experts question AI lock-in
Databases02 Feb 2026 | 2
SAP refuses to budge on renewal discounts despite cloud growth slowdown
Drop in customers' cloud conversion rate causes share price to plunge 22% – steepest decline since 2020
Databases02 Feb 2026 | 4
Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers
Big Red promises 'new era' as long-frustrated contributors weigh whether to believe it
Databases30 Jan 2026 | 17
In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened
On Call 60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it
Databases30 Jan 2026 | 101
Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working
Five years after its planned go-live, the system remains incomplete as costs balloon more than sevenfold
Databases29 Jan 2026 | 86
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FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools
Infosec In Brief PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more
Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom
What hath science wrought?
Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns
This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk
Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought
Kettle Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead
AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work
interview Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract
Who, Me? Ignorance really was the way to achieve bliss
Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat
Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks
LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2
Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export
MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry
But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source
Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP
PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India’s PC market fails to launch, again; And more
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UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die
Updated AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC's procurement pipeline
Public Sector28 Jan 2026 | 20
Microsoft shifting to cloud management software brings possibility of it peeking into your estate
Deprecation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system
Databases23 Jan 2026 | 20
As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options
As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control
Databases23 Jan 2026 | 67
SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition
Updated System handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC
Databases22 Jan 2026 | 11
£45B savings remain theoretical as UK digital roadmap delayed again
Promised plan keeps slipping as ministers talk up future efficiency
Public Sector20 Jan 2026 | 17
ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake
7 out of 10 C-suite cats reckon software category's best days are behind it, but can't agree what's next
Databases19 Jan 2026 | 37
Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red
Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt.
Systems15 Jan 2026 | 33
Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die
ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment
Software15 Jan 2026 | 2
Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board
Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster
Databases13 Jan 2026 | 31
Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on
Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts
Databases09 Jan 2026 | 51
No membrane in sight as Osmos diffuses into Microsoft Fabric
AI data engineering startup acquisition brings ETL and Spark automation in-house
Databases06 Jan 2026 |
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
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 | 111
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 | 13
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
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 | 54
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 | 33
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
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