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Database management

  • September 22, 2023 22 Sep'23

    How Confluent is tapping the groundswell in data streaming

    Confluent CEO Jay Kreps talks up the misconceptions of Kafka and what the company is doing to help customers better leverage the capabilities of the technology

  • September 15, 2023 15 Sep'23

    Microsoft to offer Oracle cloud database on Azure

    Oracle and Microsoft have trumpeted an expansion of their joint activity with the launch of Oracle Database@Azure. Microsoft will be the only other hyperscaler to offer OCI services

  • August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

    Met police data platform deployed with data protection issues

    Met Police deploys integrated record management system despite data protection ‘compliance issues' that would inhibit its ability to retrieve data, meet its statutory logging requirements, and respond to subject access requests

  • August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

    Met Police data platform £64m over budget

    A freedom of information request has revealed that the Met’s Connect integrated record management system is running tens of millions over budget, and has already generated more than 25,000 support requests so far

  • August 15, 2023 15 Aug'23

    Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner resigns

    Dual biometrics and surveillance camera watchdog will step down at the end of October 2023, noting that while he agreed to stay on until the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill received royal assent, continuing delays to its passage means ...

  • August 01, 2023 01 Aug'23

    Vast Data Platform aims at storage everywhere for AI/ML workloads

    Vast Data to offer storage with data lake and warehouse functionality built in natively, in anticipation of a huge surge in AI/ML workloads and a need for ever-larger data stores

  • July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

    Inside Cloudera’s data platform strategy

    Cloudera executives outline their business and technology strategy to help enterprises harness generative AI and other capabilities through its work in the open source community and other areas

  • July 17, 2023 17 Jul'23

    Police Scotland use cloud for biometric data despite clear risks

    Police Scotland confirms it has stored significant volumes of biometric data on a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system despite major ongoing data protection concerns, bringing into question the effectiveness of the current regulatory approach...

  • July 10, 2023 10 Jul'23

    How Confluent is maintaining its edge in event streaming

    Confluent co-founder Jun Rao talks up the company’s business and how it competes with hyperscalers and other suppliers of managed Kafka services

  • July 05, 2023 05 Jul'23

    Allo Bank taps Tencent Cloud in digital banking

    Indonesia’s largest digital lender is tapping Tencent Cloud’s TDSQL database management system and cloud infrastructure to provide digital banking services for six million customers