Database software
With the volumes of digital data used by businesses growing at exponential rates, having the right information management and database software becomes key to corporate decision-making. While established products such as Oracle, DB2 and Informix remain widely used, open source alternatives such as MySQL and Ingres offer potential alternatives for IT managers. We examine the issues around choosing the right products and strategies for your organisation.
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News
21 Apr 2021
Anti-food-waste app Karma taps up Google Cloud to power global expansion plans
Swedish startup Karma is on a mission to help consumers and businesses across the globe fight food waste, and it has enlisted the Google Cloud Platform to help it achieve its goal Continue Reading
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News
04 Aug 2020
Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19
Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions Continue Reading
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News
22 Feb 2023
Institute for Government cautions government to draw right lessons from pandemic
The Institute for Government has published a policy document warning government not to draw wrong lessons from data sharing during pandemic Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Feb 2023
DataStax builds Astra Block for Web3
Apache Cassandra enterprise database company has pushed its focus on what it calls real-time AI development further outwards with a new Web3-focused creation. The organisation’s Astra Block is a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jan 2023
Is it time for time-series databases?
We need many types of data… and we need many types of databases. In our always-on world of continuous computing (and continuous integration and continuous deployment) there is (arguably) a more ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Jan 2023
Aerospike spearheads real-time data search, connects Elasticsearch
Aerospike is a real-time data platform company. In an era when real-time data streaming companies are fond of giving away promo t-shirts emblazoned with phrases like - Is Batch Dead? - (spoiler ... Continue Reading
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News
12 Jan 2023
AWS opens first Australian Local Zone in Perth
AWS’s first Local Zone in Australia will bring low-latency performance to companies such as Woodside Energy and Nearmaps Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Jan 2023
Alation widens scope for data connector technology
Data intelligence company Alation has launched a partner programme for its Open Connector Framework technology - the aim is to deliver connectivity to new data sources. The new work with partners ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Jan 2023
NHS data platform costing £480m to supersede Covid-19 data store underway
NHS England has invited suppliers to tender for a data platform that will supersede the Covid-19 data store controversial for the involvement of data analytics firm Palantir Continue Reading
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News
04 Jan 2023
How Tencent Cloud is cracking ASEAN’s cloud market
The Chinese cloud supplier is playing to its strengths in platform services, media streaming and communications to grow its business in Southeast Asia Continue Reading
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News
30 Dec 2022
Top 10 information management stories of 2022
Data for good is a theme of the information management stories of 2022 selected here. From tracking space junk, through medical kits for Ukraine, to professionalising data science to benefit society Continue Reading
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News
20 Dec 2022
Top 10 emerging storage trends stories of 2022
There’s a seismic shift to the cloud. In its wake, object storage, unstructured data, analytics, unified file and object, and consumption models of procurement have all been boosted Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Dec 2022
Hitachi Vantara: the five Cs of application reliability
The company that Hitachi built out of the Hitachi Insight Group and its 2018 acquisition of Pentaho is known as Hitachi Vantara. Wile that corporate nametag might trip off the tongue about as ... Continue Reading
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News
28 Nov 2022
How MongoDB is driving growth in ANZ
MongoDB, which counts the likes of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank as clients, has been driving skills development and investing in local manpower in Australia and New Zealand Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Nov 2022
TomTom Maps widens scope to integrate open ‘super source’ data
Geolocation technology specialist TomTom (TOM2) has told software application developers focused on mapping applications and related services that it will now introduce ‘significantly improved’ ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Nov 2022
Why graph technology is for all our digital futures
This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j’s Jim Webber, who says graphs are a way of managing complexity that is all around us, so why not work with it directly? As DB Engines has been tracking, graph ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Nov 2022
Smart roots, Fauna sprouts intelligent routing
Fauna is a distributed document-relational database company, delivered as a cloud API. The company has this quarter introduced intelligent routing, a service intended to provide developers with a ... Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Nov 2022
How to get structure from unstructured data
We look at how to gain structure from unstructured data, via AI/ML analytics to create new records, selecting object data via SQL and storing unstructured files in NoSQL formats Continue Reading
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News
17 Nov 2022
Microsoft CEO outlines ‘digital imperatives’
Organisations that want to do more with less will have to think deeply about digital imperatives such as the shift to cloud and artificial intelligence, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Continue Reading
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News
16 Nov 2022
Applying blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB in green energy trading
Energy trading platform Powerledger has leveraged the power of blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB to make its mark in renewable energy trading in Australia Continue Reading
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News
14 Nov 2022
Sadiq Khan launches Data for London Advisory Board
Board will look at how to join up and share data between public and private London organisations in an effort to build a stronger data economy and improve public services Continue Reading
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Opinion
07 Nov 2022
How government can capitalise on a revolution in data sharing
Alison Pritchard, deputy national statistician at the Office for National Statistics, says the new government Integrated Data Service enables tackling questions that we don’t yet know we need to answer Continue Reading
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News
04 Nov 2022
Aiven expands in APAC, builds new capabilities
Managed service provider of open source databases and data platforms Aiven grew its business in Asia-Pacific by over 100% over the past year, and is now building new capabilities in data warehouses and other areas Continue Reading
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News
03 Nov 2022
Russia risks shortage of PCs and software
Russian consumers and businesses could face a shortage of IT equipment including PCs and software Continue Reading
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Definition
24 Oct 2022
foreign key
A foreign key is a column or columns of data in one table that refers to the unique data values -- often the primary key data -- in another table. Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2022
HSBC chooses Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer service to underpin digital
Bank selects Oracle’s Cloud@Customer service to upgrade and migrate some of its database systems as part of its digital transformation Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2022
Did Truss authorise ‘war risk’ provocation over Black Sea?
A UK Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint spy plane was ordered to approach Russian territory in a Cold-War-style provocation just days after Liz Truss’s mini-budget collapsed Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Oct 2022
What do the US’s new software security rules mean for UK organisations?
The White House announced recently that all software supplied to the US government and its agencies needs to be secure, so what does this mean for the UK and EU security sectors? Continue Reading
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20 Oct 2022
Neo4j teams up with Deloitte in ASEAN push
Neo4j is partnering with consulting firm Deloitte to meet the rising demand for graph technology on the back of its growing business in the ASEAN regions. Continue Reading
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20 Oct 2022
How graph technology is making a dent in the database market
Graph databases are making a splash in the database market, with specialist, multimodal and cloud database suppliers jostling for a slice of the pie. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Oct 2022
Percona on PostgreSQL version 15: what should you look out for?
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Umair Shahid in his role as head of PostgreSQL at Percona -- a company known for its work delivering enterprise-class ... Continue Reading
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Feature
13 Oct 2022
Is object storage good for databases?
We look at object storage vs block access SAN storage and ask if object storage can be used for database workloads, or is it just good for bulk storage of analytics datasets? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Oct 2022
Holy (boundless) observability: Dynatrace launches Grail
Dynatrace is of course not just a systems and data observability specialist. The company quite specifically describes and denotes itself as a ‘software intelligence company’ with a platform ... Continue Reading
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News
28 Sep 2022
EnterpriseDB rides on PostgreSQL momentum in APAC
The open-source database supplier has seen more enterprises in the region replacing their Oracle databases with Postgres to support their digital transformation initiatives Continue Reading
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News
22 Sep 2022
CCS £2bn big data and analytics framework goes live
The Crown Commercial Service has launched a big data and analytics framework worth up to £2bn over the course of the agreement Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Sep 2022
API series - DataStax: The rise of the data services API
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jeff Carpenter in his capacity as engineering coach at DataStax. DataStax is the company behind a ‘highly available’ ... Continue Reading
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News
12 Sep 2022
How graph technology is making a dent in the database market
Graph databases are making a splash in the database market, with specialist, multimodal and cloud database suppliers jostling for a slice of the pie Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Sep 2022
API series - MongoDB: Overcoming the API dilemmas of the real world
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network API series written by Vivek Bhalla in his position as senior manager of market intelligence at enterprise open source 'developer data ... Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Sep 2022
Unstructured vs semi-structured data: Order from chaos
We look at alternatives to relational databases that have emerged to help bring some structure to unstructured data and gain valuable insight by making it semi-structured Continue Reading
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News
01 Sep 2022
Google workers oppose cloud contract with Israeli government
Google workers and Palestinian rights activists call on company to divest from involvement in cloud and artificial intelligence contract with Israeli government and military, following allegations the tech giant has retaliated against an employee for being publicly critical of the deal Continue Reading
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18 Aug 2022
The data insights driving new revenue
GLS Group beefed up its enterprise resource planning system to deliver data insights that support real-time decision-making and drive new revenue Continue Reading
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E-Zine
18 Aug 2022
CW APAC: Trend watch: Enterprise resource planning
Organisations are starting to look at refreshing their enterprise resource planning systems. In this handbook, focused on enterprise resource planning in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at what’s behind this renewed priority, how GLS Group strengthened its processes, why firms want cheaper software maintenance and the benefits of best-of-breed cloud apps Continue Reading
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News
18 Aug 2022
LexisNexis sued by immigration advocates over data practices
Four immigration advocacy groups launch lawsuit in Illinois alleging data broker’s collection, aggregation and sale of people’s personal data, including non-public information, to corporations and government bodies Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Aug 2022
MariaDB goes geospatial, developer-first
The (possibly, hopefully) post-pandemic push for corporate connections and platform-level integrations moved in the open source database space this month. August 2022 saw everybody’s favourite ... Continue Reading
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News
26 Jul 2022
Lambeth maps future with cloud applications
With its funding dramatically cut, Lambeth Council has turned to cloud delivery of its business applications to have a simpler technology stack and be nimbler in delivering services to its 330,000 population Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jul 2022
Self-service rising, Soda Cloud previews data quality checks
If there’s a term that we can already see listed as a top trend for 2022 by the time the Christmas end-of-year retrospective musings come out, it is self-service. Not quite the same as technology ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Jul 2022
Driving real-time value from a data management fabric
This is a guest blogpost by James Corcoran, SVP Customer Value, KX Generating tangible business value from data in as short a time frame as possible is becoming a strategic priority for businesses ... Continue Reading
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News
08 Jul 2022
How Bank BPD Bali modernised its datacentre infrastructure
The Indonesian bank has deployed the Nutanix Cloud Platform in a move to modernise its datacentre infrastructure and pave the way towards hybrid and multi-cloud Continue Reading
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News
05 Jul 2022
Legacy UK customs system stops accepting registration requests
HMRC closes new applications to legacy customs system as its shutdown nears Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Jul 2022
File, block and object: Storage fundamentals in the cloud era
We look at the three basic ways that storage accesses data – via file, block and object – as well as the ways in which the rise of the cloud and distributed systems have brought changes to them Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Jul 2022
Tech sector efforts to root out forced labour are failing
Digitally mapping supply chains to identify forced labour and slavery is no longer a technology problem for the IT sector, but a lack of government enforcement and corporate inaction are major barriers to effective change Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Jun 2022
Cockroach Labs: The killer factor in the dead heat cloud zone
People don’t like the poor cockroach. Although they’re widely despised, generally spurned and definitely a very unpleasant addition to a bathroom, shower, bed or couch once you’re on vacation ... Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2022
Neo4j teams up with Deloitte in ASEAN push
Neo4j is partnering with consulting firm Deloitte to meet the demand for graph technology on the back of its growing business in the ASEAN region Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2022
MoD sets out strategy to develop military AI with private sector
The UK Ministry of Defence has outlined its intention to work closely with the private sector to develop and deploy a range of artificial intelligence-powered technologies, committing to ‘lawful and ethical AI use’ Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Jun 2022
MongoDB World 2022 live show reports: Day #2 - A bigger world for Atlas
The Computer Weekly Developer Network & Open Source Insider blog team attended MongoDB World 2022 in New York City this June to file a series of show reports, keynote download sessions, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Jun 2022
MongoDB World 2022 live show reports: Day #1 - developer productivity
The Computer Weekly Developer Network & Open Source Insider blog team attended MongoDB World 2022 in New York City this June to file a series of show reports, keynote download sessions, ... Continue Reading
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News
24 May 2022
ICO orders facial recognition firm Clearview AI to delete all data about UK residents
UK data watchdog fines facial recognition company Clearview AI £7.5m for multiple privacy breaches. The firm, which offers services to law enforcement, faces growing pressure from regulators and legal action around the world Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 May 2022
Digital Twins, knowledge graphs, and boosting supply chain resilience
This is a guest blogpost by Jim Webber, Chief Scientist at graph database provider Neo4j. It discusses Knowledge Graph-based digital twin technology for better supply chain management. What links ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 May 2022
Percona CEO Zaitsev: Our 15-years in ‘pure’ open source
The Computer Weekly Developer Network attended Percona Live 2022 in Austin, Texas from May 16-18. Percona is company known as a provider of enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 May 2022
(Server) less is more, ThoughtSpot on Amazon Redshift Serverless
Cloud-native is here. Except it’s not, quite i.e. so many enterprises are still working their way through what they hope will be the first (or at least initial stages) of cloud deployment with just ... Continue Reading
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News
11 May 2022
Pure to offer on-prem object storage as Snowflake data source
Pure Storage partnership with Snowflake will see the cloud data warehousing platform make use of on-prem FlashBlade fast file and object storage as a source for analytics data Continue Reading
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News
11 May 2022
SAP ‘optimistic’ about S/4 Hana in APAC
A top SAP executive is confident that more of its customers in Asia-Pacific will adopt S/4 Hana this year, as the company shores up integration of its ERP software with other business applications Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 May 2022
ThoughtSpot ramps up analytics code deployment with dbt
Systems need data, organisations need data and, essentially, above all, people need data. But basic truisms aside, systems, organisations and people need data to be created, controlled, managed and ... Continue Reading
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News
10 May 2022
NetApp’s cloud-era storage competitors in ‘world of hurt’
NetApp is busily reinventing itself as a cloud services provider, with its competition years behind, according to its public cloud vice-president Continue Reading
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News
14 Apr 2022
Government agrees bulk surveillance powers fail to protect journalists and sources
Campaign group Liberty to launch legal appeal that will call for journalists to receive stronger legal protections from state surveillance Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Apr 2022
What to expect from Alteryx Inspire 2022
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team are extremely fond of the Wild West and the Rocky Mountains, but ideally only when we can get our hands on self-service data science tools for data ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Mar 2022
What to expect from Percona Live 2022
Percona (arguably) has some spirit. The company has tried really hard to schedule user conventions throughout these first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic; always cancelling when appropriate ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Mar 2022
DataStax Astra DB widens the dream of the real-time stream
Now self-styling itself as the real-time data company, enterprise open source database specialist DataStax has now come forward with its ‘change data capture’ (CDC) function for Astra DB, a new ... Continue Reading
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News
24 Mar 2022
CW Innovation Awards: Driving new revenue with data insights
GLS Group beefed up its enterprise resource planning system to deliver data insights that support real-time decision making and drive new revenue Continue Reading
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News
11 Mar 2022
Police EncroChat cryptophone hacking implant did not work properly and frequently failed
Surveillance operation against EncroChat encrypted phone network had repeated technical failures Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Mar 2022
Retailers get business-critical IT and data management in order
Decathlon and Toolstation are among the retailers investing in new technology to support business-critical applications and better data management Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Feb 2022
Christal Bemont, Talend CEO: Show up as yourself
Christal Bemont, CEO of data management firm Talend, reflects on coming through difficult times in solidarity with co-workers, and how data quality assumes a heightened significance in the digital era Continue Reading
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News
20 Feb 2022
BreastScreen Victoria to use third-party support for Oracle database
Australia’s BreastScreen Victoria has inked a support contract with Rimini Street to free up IT capacity and funds for strategic initiatives Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Feb 2022
Vast Commvault coop on commodiously capacious code containment
Vast Data is a data storage company with a message for data scientists, data-centric developers, DBAs in developer-operations DevOps teams and anyone other software engineers with a penchant for ... Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2022
How Carrefour is lowering its Oracle footprint
Migrating core business applications requires a multi-pronged approach, so what remains on-prem, and where does SaaS fit? Continue Reading
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Podcast
09 Feb 2022
Log4Shell, Ukraine and umbrella firm cyber attacks – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
Alex Scroxton joins the team to discuss the Log4j vulnerability and Russian pressure on Ukraine. Also discussed are cyber attacks on umbrella companies, neuro-diversity and junk in space Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Feb 2022
Finland brings cryostats and other cool things to quantum computing
Not only is Finland the clear leader in refrigeration technology for quantum computers, but it also leads in fundamental research into the underlying quantum information theory Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2022
Dutch software engineers join campaign for research funding
Software researchers from all over Europe are sounding the alarm: to maintain a strong international competitive position, more financial resources must be committed to software research Continue Reading
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News
26 Jan 2022
Space junk revealed by University of Texas graph database
Aerospace engineers, led by space environmentalist Moriba Jah, at The University of Texas at Austin have built a graph database, AstriaGraph, to track space junk that is a threat to life on Earth Continue Reading
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News
26 Jan 2022
TigerGraph roars into APAC
The graph database technology supplier is approaching the region with a solution-based strategy and partnering with universities to grow local capabilities Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jan 2022
Alibaba Cloud’s growing clout in databases
Alibaba Cloud growing clout in cloud-based databases was validated this week when it reported that its database revenues grew by over 50% year-over-year. The company’s database product portfolio ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
22 Dec 2021
A trial relying on computer evidence should start with a trial of the computer evidence
Learning from the Post Office Horizon scandal - the most widespread miscarriage of justice in recent British legal history Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Dec 2021
immudb (immutable database) ‘tamper-proof’ database
The open source immudb (immutable database, get it?) tamper-proof database can now serve as the main transactional database for enterprisesm due to its recent bolstering in terms of full ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Dec 2021
Having trouble overcoming the S/4HANA confidence gap?
As John Lennon and Yoko Ono didn't quite sing, "Give POC a chance!" If you’re one of the many SAP users who’s yet to migrate to S/4HANA, we understand your hesitation. It’s potentially a big ... Continue Reading
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News
02 Dec 2021
Pandora Papers: How journalists mined terabytes of offshore data to expose the world’s elites
Six hundred journalists spent over a year mining 2.94 terabytes of data that revealed offshore companies and the politicians, world leaders and celebrities who secretly owned them Continue Reading
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News
30 Nov 2021
How Maxim’s Group is using Oracle Cloud
The Hong Kong-based F&B operator is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run its VMware workloads and datawarehouse to improve resilience and productivity Continue Reading
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News
15 Nov 2021
Government bodies refuse FOI requests on basis of misleading database search times, says academic
The Information Commissioner’s Office tells tribunal it would need to bring in external experts to search data using an Excel spreadsheet Continue Reading
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News
11 Nov 2021
Financial Conduct Authority chooses Aiimi for improved information discovery
The Financial Conduct Authority has awarded a three-year contract to UK enterprise search firm Aiimi to enable the regulator’s staff to find documents more easily and collaborate better Continue Reading
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News
09 Nov 2021
Oracle eyes startups with Singapore cloud region
Oracle is targeting startups and going beyond its enterprise stronghold with its first cloud region in Southeast Asia Continue Reading
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Opinion
08 Nov 2021
Watching me, watching you – challenging the rise of digital surveillance at work
Unprecedented levels of digital monitoring at work is embedding a culture of surveillance, despite workers’ opposition to the practices, says Prospect Union Continue Reading
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News
28 Oct 2021
Illegal state surveillance in Africa ‘carried out with impunity’
Analysis of surveillance laws and practices in six African countries finds that existing privacy laws are failing to protect citizens from illegal digital surveillance, which is being facilitated and enabled by global tech companies Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2021
How data drives Air Canada’s cargo business
Data-driven insights and artificial intelligence are helping Air Canada to find a new business path as it expands its cargo business following the pandemic Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Sep 2021
Push it does Diffusion 6.7, real good
Push Technology develops real-time data streaming and messaging software. The company has now tabled a new personalised client data delivery capability in the company’s Diffusion Intelligent ... Continue Reading
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News
15 Sep 2021
Australia and Singapore have higher incidences of insecure databases
Five-year longitudinal study by Imperva shows the proportion of databases with at least one known vulnerability in Australia and Singapore are among the world’s highest Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Sep 2021
Data modernisation & denormalisation: 3T integrates with Hackolade
It’s always tough when vendors start their company name with a number… primarily because no sentence starts particularly well with a numerical value. But it worked for 3M, so let's move on to 3T ... Continue Reading
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News
10 Aug 2021
Researchers uncover database with 126 million unsecured records
Business-to-business marketing firm OneMoreLead was storing tens of millions of records in an unsecured database, exposing at least 63 million people to fraud, identify theft and phishing campaigns Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Aug 2021
The ephemeral stack - Nutanix: solidifying DBaaS & the science of compliance
The Computer Weekly Developer Network continues with its series focused on the ‘composable ephemeral computing stack’ with a guest post written by Rob Tribe in his capacity as VP of system ... Continue Reading
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News
06 Aug 2021
Apple unveils plans to scan US iPhones for child sex abuse images
Apple will introduce child sexual abuse material detection for US users later this year, but some experts are worried that the technology could be repurposed to scan phones for other kinds of content Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Jul 2021
The composable stack - InterSystems: The software consumption pendulum
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Scott Gnau in his capacity as VP of data platforms at InterSystems - a company known for its software systems and ... Continue Reading
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News
21 Jul 2021
SAP Q2 2021: revenue down 1%, 600 new S/4 Hana signups
SAP has reported second-quarter 2021 revenue of €6.669bn, down 1% on the same year-ago quarter. Cloud revenue has increased by 11% to €2.276bn, just over one-third of the total, and 250 customers claimed for new Rise with SAP package in the quarter Continue Reading
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Blog Post
06 Jul 2021
The ephemeral stack - DataStax: Compose yourself with serverless data.
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Patrick McFadin, in his role as vice president for developer relations at DataStax. McFadin’s original title for this piece ... Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Jun 2021
Lakehouse concept aims to merge data lake and data warehouse
Data lakes are big, amorphous and difficult to access, while data warehouses are costly and aimed at structured data. The data lakehouse aims at analytics in an age of unstructured data Continue Reading