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 | 3
Lindsay Clark has been writing about business technology for more than 20 years, starting at PC Week in the late 1990s. He went on to manage the news team at Computer Weekly in the early 2000s. His career was waylaid by music, which merited brief session appearances on BBC radio shows including those hosted by Mark Riley, Janice Long, and Whispering Bob Harris. As a freelance journalist, he has written for The Financial Times, The Guardian, and a list of B2B titles as long as your arm.
He joined The Register in February 2020 to cover database software and other enterprise IT technologies.
UK watchdog investigates TikTok and Reddit over child data privacy concerns
ICO looking at what data is used to serve up recommendations
Security03 Mar 2025 | 1
How the collapse of local cloud provider caused biz continuity issues in UK government
And that was on top of a £17.5M underwriting bill for insolvent UKCloud
PaaS + IaaS03 Mar 2025 | 19
UK government's cloud strategy: Pay more, get less, blame vendor lock-in?
Home Office's £450M deal with AWS raises questions over competition and aligning department requirements
PaaS + IaaS28 Feb 2025 | 17
No new engineer hires this year as AI coding tools boost productivity, says Salesforce
Yet growth in its AI agent biz not enough to improve numbers
Applications27 Feb 2025 | 9
30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months
Updated Thousands of order lines not picked, causing delays to hospital deliveries
Applications27 Feb 2025 | 28
How mega city council's failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed its financial controls
Missing assessments, hidden caveats, and overoptimism all contributed to fateful decision, auditors find
PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2025 | 36
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 | 113
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
UK tax authority eyes £880M overhaul for Northern Ireland trade services
Cost of post-Brexit arrangements revealed as HMRC looks at options following Fujitsu contract
Software20 Feb 2025 | 18
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
Microsoft boffins promise entire game worlds made from AI slop
WHAM, bam, no thank you, ma'am?
AI + ML19 Feb 2025 | 19
Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making it 'longest strategic release'
Meanwhile, on-prem version of 23ai remains uncertain
Databases18 Feb 2025 | 2
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
Users await the fine print on SAP Business Suite reboot
Cloud-based revival should come with 'a corresponding discount scale,' customers say
Applications14 Feb 2025 | 4
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
Already three years late, NHS finance system replacement delayed again
Project to swap out Oracle E-Business Suite gets another red rating from projects watchdog
Applications11 Feb 2025 | 23
Legacy systems running UK's collector are taxing – in more ways than one
Updated Costs for fixing them and keeping them working up by 390%, NAO report reveals
Public Sector10 Feb 2025 | 67
Does DOGE have what it takes to actually tackle billions in US govt IT spending?
Comment (updated) Tesla’s DIY ERP legend meets the messy reality of entrenched federal contracts
Public Sector08 Feb 2025 | 274
Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data
But 'original sin' has already been committed, shrugs industry
AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 50
Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil
For those for whom a runny white or a hard yolk is just not good un œuf
Offbeat06 Feb 2025 | 122
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
UK govt must learn fast and let failing projects die young
Tackle longstanding issues around productivity, cyber resilience and public sector culture, advises spending watchdog
Public Sector04 Feb 2025 | 11
Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough
Sci-fi interstellar travel gets another tiny push
Science03 Feb 2025 | 17
Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays
Third-party software sticking plaster expected six months late
Databases03 Feb 2025 | 39
UK biz dept overspent by £208M prepping to pay workers hurt in Post Office IT scandal
Updated Auditor offers qualified opinion as financial fallout from historic miscarriage of justice remains unclear
Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 46
DeepSeek stirs intrigue and doubt across the tech world
China's AI disruptor rattles industry watchers with unproven claims
AI + ML30 Jan 2025 | 42
A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles
Breakthrough could – eventually – impact smartphone and mobile computing
Science30 Jan 2025 | 30
Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red
Fallout continues from per-employee licensing shift in 2023, survey finds
Software29 Jan 2025 | 38
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
SAP extends support deadline for getting off legacy software – in very special circumstances
Qualifying orgs may get 2033 extension, just don’t call it a U-turn
PaaS + IaaS28 Jan 2025 | 1
Why does the UK keep getting beaten up by IT suppliers?
Tech and commercial functions need to get in shape for the challenges ahead
Public Sector28 Jan 2025 | 78
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
Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?
Could a post-Brexit romance be on the cards?
Personal Tech24 Jan 2025 | 185
UK tax collector's phone service 'deliberately' bad to push users online, say MPs
Cut off nearly 44k peeps who had been waiting 70 minutes for advice on unavoidable chore
Public Sector22 Jan 2025 | 82
Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom
The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner
CxO22 Jan 2025 | 13
Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming
Researchers aim to tackle unmet needs for social connection and recreation
Science21 Jan 2025 | 9
Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech
Under Digital Services Act, monitors will be allowed to report abusive language and platforms should respond in 1 day
Personal Tech21 Jan 2025 | 116
Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs
Updated It’s a feature not a bug, and what the US electorate voted for, says analyst
Personal Tech21 Jan 2025 | 33
UK aims to fix government IT with help from AI Humphrey
Ring a bell? Suite of tools named after Yes Minister's master of manipulation
Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 76
Asda tech divorce from Walmart delays cut-over for 55 stores
Supermarket taking 'pragmatic approach' to 'Europe's largest IT transformation program'
On-Prem21 Jan 2025 | 24
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 |
IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door
With a near half-billion-pound price hike bringing contract value to £1.4B
Networks17 Jan 2025 | 62
UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog
NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects
Personal Tech16 Jan 2025 | 69
'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages
Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 28
Four plead guilty in US government tech procurement fraud case
Scheme involving bribes, bid rigging and insider info may have cost US taxpayers $1.3M
Public Sector15 Jan 2025 | 7
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
It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board
Analysis That niche forum running for 20 years – get ready, there's work to do
Security14 Jan 2025 | 150
Tesla, Musk double down on $56B payday appeal
What could be the motivation for continuing to fight the case?
CxO09 Jan 2025 | 75
£3.8B later, old tech supplier flames still burning for HMRC
Deal supposed to end in 2017 continues to haunt tax collector procurement
Software09 Jan 2025 | 10
UK government pledges law against sexually explicit deepfakes
Not just making them, but sharing them too
Public Sector09 Jan 2025 | 29
Biting the hand that feeds IT
